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Before beginning any discussion of personality and intelligence, we need to dispel a common myth about intelligence itself, that is that it is a ‘thing’ in the way that the brain is a thing. It is not. Intelligence is simply a socially constructed concept; a term we use for particular kinds of behaviour.
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Fontana, D. (2000). Personality, Intelligence, Creativity and Cognitive Style. In: Personality in the Workplace. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-333-99384-2_9
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