Intellectual Competence and the Intelligent Personality

A Third Way in Differential Psychology

Chamorro-Premuzic, Tomas
Furnham, Adrian

¹Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths College, University of London
²Department of Psychology, University College London

³Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths College, University of London, New Cross SE146NW, United Kingdom. E-mail: [email protected]

We thank Phillip Ackerman, Elizabeth Austin, Nathan Brody, Gerald Matthews, and Don Saklofske for providing thoughtful comments on the initial draft of this article.

Received Date: May 20, 2005; Revised Date: October 5, 2005; Accepted Date: November 5, 2005

Review of General Psychology 10(3):p 251-267, September 2006.

This article conceptualizes the construct of the intelligent personality as an indicator of intellectual competence in an attempt to expand the traditional concept of intelligence and account for both ability and nonability determinants of academic performance. Theoretical implications are discussed with regard to recent attempts to (a) explain correlations between personality and intelligence measures, (b) conceptualize novel constructs that may bridge the gap between intelligence and personality, and (c) develop a conceptual model for understanding the relationship among individual differences underlying human performance in real-world settings. Practical implications are also considered, in particular with regard to the validity of the intelligent personality as a predictor of future achievement.