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...nourish students' souls as well as their minds. And while the best teachers have long taught kids to behave and play fair, they now have science on their side. In 1995 psychologist and New York Times science writer Daniel Goleman published Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ, which contends that children's ability to recognize their own emotions, empathize with peers and deal with crises--their "emotional quotient," or EQ--influences their life chances as much as native intelligence. The book, now a paperback best seller, has had a catalytic effect. Rutgers psychologist Maurice Elias, a pioneer...
...Leder's bustling direction and to Clooney, who has a gift for eroticizing impatience. ("Women!" his stare says. "Can't live with 'em; they can't live without me.") Then the film finds sympathy for its villain and goes softly nuts with him. In the final chase everyone's IQ drops about 20 points...
...have been asking themselves for years. According to recent polls, two- thirds of the nation's pediatricians say yes ? the occasional whupping might transform disruptive brats into quiet little angels. But while the rod may encourage obedience, researchers at Fordham University now claim spanking may lower a child's IQ...
...study, released this week by Fordham's School of Social Service, focused on 715 children who were given standard IQ tests at one and three years of age. According to the researchers, the IQ scores of girls who received "high levels of harsh discipline" at 12 and 36 months were about eight points lower than girls of the same age who were spared the rod. Boys in the same age group showed similar IQ reductions after being spanked or scolded, but not to the same extent as girls, the study found. An even worse effect was found from a lack...
...question inevitably follows: Has IBM created intelligence? Unfortunately, this question is impossible to answer without a common understanding of what intelligence is. As a friend of mine put it, "the only thing that everybody agrees on is that the IQ test does not measure...