Falk Sonja: Psihologija inteligencije - Kako koristimo inteligenciju u svakodnevnom životu

Sonja Falck: Psychology of intelligence - How we use intelligence in everyday life

What is it that fascinates us about intelligence? Why are we sometimes afraid of intelligence? How does intelligence affect our daily life? What does "being stupid" mean, and what does "being smart" mean? Can the level of intelligence be increased or decreased, and how? Can emotional intelligence be more important than IQ? What is the influence of origin and upbringing on intelligence? These questions are dealt with in the latest book from the edition Psychology of everything.

The book is entirely focused on human and not on artificial intelligence, and the goal is to explore how we feel about each other when it comes to intelligence and how we connect with each other. There is no topic in psychology that has been more intensively studied and none that has caused as much controversy as the topic of human intelligence. The framework presented by the author includes the division of the last, at least two hundred years of the existence of the question of intelligence in the Western world into three eras or phases: idealization, devaluation and integrationintelligence development. The path to the integration phase, which has begun and continues, includes an open and non-discriminatory recognition and acceptance of the fact that the level of intelligence is one of the ways in which people differ from each other, but this difference is not the result of either origin (idealization) or upbringing (devaluation), but we can create a synthesis of these opposing positions that leads us to the integration phase.

The book is full of the latest scientific research, but also examples from psychotherapeutic practice.

HOW DO PEOPLE ACHIEVE THE LEVEL OF INTELLIGENCE THEY HAVE?

• • Why is intelligence often a controversial and provocative topic?
• • How to reconsider personal psychological and social responses to intelligence.
• • About discrimination against people with low intelligence,
• • … but also discrimination against people with higher intelligence.
• • Do we feel envy towards intelligent people?
• • Why are people with high IQ often misunderstood at work?
• • About intelligence in school, at work, in healthcare, legislation...

OF THE STUDY OF INTELLIGENCE THROUGH THE CENTURIES

What would happen if information about IQ became one of the routine information that a patient goes to the doctor with, like blood type, and if everyone treated it pragmatically and neutrally, as they treat differences in blood to groups?

Sonja Falck is a senior lecturer at the University of East London in Great Britain, a psychotherapist and supervisor with accreditation from the British Council for Psychotherapy. She specializes in counseling work with adults of high intellectual abilities who have problems in relationships. She also wrote the book Extreme Intelligence: Development, Predicaments, Implications.

About the edition Psihologija svega

The book was published in the edition Psihologija svega (The Psychology of Everything, Routledge), a series of books that destroy myths and pseudoscience about some of the most important issues in life - sadness, trust, fashion, social networks, peer violence, sex, conspiracy theories… Each book will make you look at everything in a new way and is the work of an expert in a particular field who  explores the hidden psychological factors that motivate us. In this edition, Psihopolis has so far published the books Psychology of Mode, Psychology of Trust, Psychology of peer violence, Psychology of belonging and Psychology of dreams are also being prepared.