Specificity Of The Structure Of The Intellect Of Socially Successful People

Abstract

The article reveals a research attempt to identify the structural components of intellect that accompany social success (high administrative and managerial social status). Approaches to understanding social success are considered, criteria of social success are analyzed and highlighted. As one of the objective criteria for the study is taken social status. Intellect is presented as a potential factor of social success by criteria of high social status. An analysis is given in the form of a historical reference of studies of the role of the intellect in the professional successes of the individual on the examples of the work of American, European, and Russian psychologists. Tendencies in relation to certain "critical points of the intellect" that are more pronounced among highly ranked specialists are identified. These include, first of all, the flexibility of thinking. This aspect seems to be the most perspective for further researches. Due to the fact that modern empirical data on the COT method do not fully reflect the ability of respondents to achieve social success, standardization of the COT method (adaptation of the Vanderlik test) was carried out. The article introduces new norms of the method for sex and age features. We believe that the proposed norms will more reliably record the level of the general abilities of the respondents.