The Theory of Successful Intelligence

By Robert J. Sternberg. 2000

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Research on Giftedness and Gifted Education (2014, positive): “Research on the Triarchic Theory has provided more empirical support in the areas of assessment and effective educational interventions (Sternberg, 2011; Sternberg, Castejón, Prieto, Hautamäki, & 392 Summer 2014 Grigorenko, 2001).”
The Socioaffective Impact of Acceleration and Ability Grouping (2007, background): “Sternberg (1999) has proposed that this lack of realistic self-assessment prevents success in highly competitive fields: One needs a realistic view of one’s abilities in order to capitalize on personal strengths and compensate for weaknesses.”
Creative Thinking in the Classroom (2003, positive): “This type of contribution shows the potentially dialectical nature of creative contributions particularly well, in that it merges into a new Hegelian type of synthesis two ideas that formerly may have been seen as opposed (Sternberg, 1999a).”
Giftedness as Developing Expertise: A theory of the interface between high abilities and achieved excellence (2001, positive): “In the theory of successful intelligence (Sternberg, 1985, 1997, 1999b), intelligence is viewed as having three aspects: analytical, creative, and practical.”
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Successful Intelligence in the Classroom (2004, positive): “We have developed the theory of successful intelligence in order to understand these children (Sternberg, 1997a, 1999), and a set of methods of teaching for successful intelligence to help these students reach their full potential (Sternberg & Grigorenko, 2000).”
Intellectual Competence and the Intelligent Personality: A Third Way in Differential Psychology (2006, background): “Emotional (Goleman, 1995; Mayer & Salovey, 1997), successful, practical (Sternberg, 1997, 1999), multiple (Gardner, 1999), and social (Ford & Tisak, 1983) intelligences are all representative examples of a common enterprise: Demolish, replace, or improve g.”
Intelligence: new findings and theoretical developments. (2012, background): “Robert Sternberg and his colleagues (Sternberg, 1999, 2006) have studied practical intelligence, which they define as the ability to solve concrete problems in real life that require searching for information not necessarily contained in a problem statement, and for which many solutions are…”
Developing leadership skills among adolescents and young adults: a review of leadership programmes (2018, background): “However, creative and practical skills are quite significant for a person’s development and success and can have a positive impact after the ending of formal schooling (Sternberg, 1999).”
Who Are the Bright Children? The Cultural Context of Being and Acting Intelligent (2007, positive): “The theory motivating much of the work described here is the theory of successful intelligence (Sternberg, 1985, 1997, 1999), according to which “successful intelligence” is defined as what is needed for success in life, according to one’s own definition of success, within one’s sociocultural…”
Tool Learning with Foundation Models (2023, neutral): “Tool use evaluation requires AI systems to go beyond memorization and use their acquired knowledge to accomplish specific tasks, which better aligns with real-world applications and the notion of practical intelligence (Sternberg, 1999).”
Artificial Intelligence in Service (2018, background): “The HI literature considers intelligence the ability to learn from experience and adapt to the environment (Gardner 1983, 1999; Sternberg 1984, 2005).”