Intelligent Individuals Research Articles

Fake News and the Individual. Personal Characteristics Which Influence What We Choose to Believe

"As the phenomenon of fake news continues to increase and spread throughout the world, there is a need to understand how individual characteristics influence the propensity to believe in fake news. In this systematic review, we performed a search of relevant databases for scientific studies published starting with 2016, the year this term became mainstream, 2024. After applying inclusion and exclusion criteria, we selected ten studies, which showed that higher extraversion is related with an increased belief in fake news, while agreeableness, conscientiousness, and open-mindedness tend to protect against believing in fake news. A heightened state of emotionality (either negative or positive) is another individual characteristic which predisposes people to believe fake news. High intelligence individuals, but especially individuals with high analytical skills, who often use deep reflection (instead of their intuition/gut feeling) when processing information and making decisions, are the most protected when it comes to believing news that is not true. Keywords: fake news, intelligence, personality, analytic thinking, emotions"

Smart Nutrition for a Golden Generation: Nutrition Education for Mothers of Toddlers

Optimal nutrition during early childhood is crucial in supporting the overall growth and development of children. This period is known as the golden age, during which brain and physical development occur very rapidly. Therefore, nutrition education for mothers of young children is a vital step in ensuring that future generations grow up to be healthy and intelligent individuals. Knowledge about the nutritional needs of young children, the proper way to provide complementary feeding (MP-ASI), and the prevention of malnutrition are the main focuses of this education. This article also presents various essential nutrients needed by young children and practical tips for mothers in providing MP-ASI. The Community Service Program (PKM) was held at the Nurtiana Ginting Clinic, Serdang Bedagai Regency, on May 4, 2024, involving 18 participants. The primary goal of this PKM is that with good nutrition education, it is hoped that mothers will become more skilled in providing healthy and balanced meals, thus supporting the creation of a healthy and intelligent golden generation. Adequate knowledge will help mothers make the right decisions regarding diet and food choices, ultimately supporting the creation of a healthy, intelligent, and highly competitive golden generation. Nutrition education also plays an important role in preventing various health problems that can arise from nutritional deficiencies or excesses, thereby significantly improving children's quality of life.

Ulu al-Albab in the Qur'an: Meaning, Characteristics, and Role in Social Change

This study aims to examine the Qur'anic verses that mention "ulū al-albāb." Using a qualitative research design and content analysis, the primary data were sourced from the Qur'an, while secondary data were collected from tafsir texts and scholarly articles. The findings reveal that "ulū al-albāb" possess profound intellectual and spiritual insight, characterized by knowledge, adherence to divine covenants, maintaining family ties, fear of God, patience, prayer, altruism, and repelling evil with good. These attributes distinguish them from ordinary intelligent individuals. "Ulū al-albāb" are well-suited to lead and implement "dakwah" (Islamic propagation), especially in methods requiring deep understanding and strategic implementation. They are expected to serve as agents of social change by occupying significant positions in societal institutions, leveraging their influence to drive positive transformations. This study highlights the importance of integrating textual and contextual approaches in understanding "dakwah" and the critical role of "ulū al-albāb" in Islamic thought and social change.

The relationship between ethnocentric behaviour and workforce localisation success: The mediating role of knowledge sharing tendency

Ethnocentric conduct among employees is observed in multicultural work environments characterised by the presence of individuals from diverse origins. The existence of ethnocentrism inside the workplace has been observed to have repercussions for colleagues. Nevertheless, despite the significance of the aforementioned factors, there hasn't been a considerable pertinent scholarly study on how these aspects affect the localisation of human resources. This research closes the gap in the literature by integrating ethnocentrism and human resource localisation variables. We used Andrew F. Hayes PROCESS V4.0 to assess the hypothesised relationship between employees' ethnocentric behaviour and human resource localisation success. In addition, employee knowledge-sharing tendency works as a mediator, and employee cultural intelligence (CQ) is a moderated mediator. From the analysis of 361 respondents from multinational Company (MNC) workers, we found that ethnocentric behaviour reduces employee knowledge-sharing tendency among workers and, in return, reduces human resource localisation success. However, CQ moderates the mediated relationship between employee knowledge-sharing direction and localisation success. We also found that when employees have high CQ, the negative effect of ethnocentrism on localisation success weakens. Managers of multicultural organisations should reduce ethnocentrism to ensure the success of human resource localisation. MNCs can consider employing culturally intelligent individuals and giving them sensitivity training. Future research can integrate other variables, such as the firm's cultural characteristics, to continue this research domain. Further research can also consider collecting data from nations with high cultural distances; comparative studies between two countries are also encouraged.

A Study on the Awareness of Workplace Emotional Intelligence in the Corporate Sector

Workplace Emotional Intelligence is a critical and essential skill in any sector especially the corporate sector. Organizations are recognizing the importance of fostering EI among their workforce, as it leads to more productive, harmonious and successful workplace. Workplace Emotional Intelligence (EI) has emerged as a critical factor in the success of employees and organizations. The purpose of the study is to examine the awareness of workplace emotional intelligence among employees in the corporate sector. Workplace Emotional Intelligence is the ability to find, understand, and manage one’s own emotions and those of others in the workplace. It encompasses a wide range of skills, including empathy, self-regulation, social awareness, leadership, conflict resolution and stress management. The importance of emotional intelligence has notably reached a majority of the employees. They do realize that emotional intelligence skills in the workplace affect job performance and effective leadership. Employees are able to self - regulate their emotions when facilitates conflict resolution. The employees’ ability to exhibit self-awareness and sensitivity shows an inclination towards fostering positive workplace relationships, building rapport and maintaining personal friendships among colleagues. The consistently shows that high levels of EI lead to improved communication and leadership effectiveness. The findings of this study provide insights on how emotionally intelligent individuals are to an organization’s success.

Strategi Orang Tua Dalam Menstimulasi Resiliensi Pada Anak Usia Dini

Various challenges and unpleasant conditions that are present in life require us to have adequate resilience in order to be able to cope well with various challenges and obstacles in life and avoid various psychological disorders that can be detrimental. Adequate resilience will enable individuals to carry out their various life roles optimally without compromising their mental health. Therefore, resilience needs to be developed from an early age so that children are used to dealing with various developmental challenges in a healthy manner. This research is a descriptive qualitative research that aims to analyze the strategies applied by parents in stimulating resilience in early childhood. The subjects in this study were fifteen pairs of parents and 18 early childhood who live in Mataram City, West Nusa Tenggara. Data collection is done by interview, observation, and documentation. Parents stimulate early childhood resilience with strategies of providing understanding, motivation, role modeling, and freedom to children with the aim of fulfilling children's basic safety needs, meeting children's educational needs, developing children's friendship skills, facilitating the development of children's interests and talents, introducing various positive values ​​to children. children, and instill various social competencies in children. These various strategies can support children to grow into resilient individuals so that they can carry out their various developmental roles and tasks in a healthy and reasonable manner. Individuals with good resilience will also have good self-control so that they will become intellectually and emotionally intelligent individuals.

Exploring Needs and Impacts of Digital Citizenship Education for Borderline Intellectual Disorder

This study aims to conduct digital citizenship education for borderline intellectual disorder and explore its impact and overall necessity. According to these research objectives, 12 sessions of digital citizenship education were conducted for six borderline intelligence individuals attending S Alternative School in Seoul, and its impact was statistically confirmed through the same group pre-post test design. In addition, after the program, in-depth interviews were conducted with research participants to conduct qualitative analysis. As a result of the analysis, the digital citizenship of borderline intelligence was improved through digital citizenship education, and qualitative analysis also confirmed the impact of digital citizenship and the need for digital citizenship education in the future. Based on these results, suggestions were made to activate digital citizenship education for borderline intelligence individuals in the future.

Self-regulated Learning Theory in Metacognitive-Based Teaching and Learning of High-Order Thinking Skills (HOTS)

Along with the need for global competence, the aspect of high-level thinking skills that is widely emphasized nowadays has demanded students to be intelligent individuals who apply the ability of learning skills through their own determination by implementing effective learning methods through self-regulated learning. However, the study found that in the teaching and learning of high-level thinking skills, the approach in learning self-regulation is less applied. Thus, this concept paper aims to discuss the application of self-regulation learning theory in teaching and learning metacognitive-based high-level thinking skills. This study uses an analytical approach to the literature review in discussing the relationship between learning self-regulation, metacognition and high-level thinking skills, the definition and concept of self-regulation learning, self-learning theory and the importance of self-regulation learning in teaching and learning metacognitive-based high-level thinking skills. Self-regulated learning theory suggests that teachers can use metacognitive elements in self-regulated learning to improve students' cognitive abilities and improve pedagogical knowledge and teaching efficiency. Through the application of this theory, it gives implications to the teaching and learning practices of teachers and students in improving students' thinking skills based on metacognition.

Music curriculum innovation construction on postgraduate mania from the perspective of curriculum ideology and politics

BackgroundGraduate students, as highly intelligent individuals, are more likely to experience mania during their studies than the general population. They are affected by learning pressure, environmental factors, and other factors and manifested as high spirits and irritability. Art therapy, as a relatively effective treatment method, is often used for psychological intervention and treatment. Therefore, this study innovatively constructs music courses from the perspective of ideological and political education to alleviate graduate students’ mania.Subjects and MethodsFifty graduate students with mania from a certain university were selected as the research subjects and randomly divided into Group A and Group B. Group A used traditional treatment methods, while Group B added innovative music courses to the traditional treatment methods for combined treatment. After the experiment, the data were processed and analyzed using SPSS 20.0.ResultsAfter the combination of results and intervention treatment, the overall compliance rate of student patients reached 98%, significantly higher than 60% in Group A; In the quality of life score, the social function score of Group B was 65.95 ± 4.20, the mental health score was 64.54 ± 4.89, and the psychological function score was 67.39 ± 5.14, all of which were higher than those of Group A.ConclusionsFrom the perspective of ideological and political education in the curriculum, the innovative construction of music courses has an effective alleviating effect on graduate students’ mania.AcknowledgementGuangxi academic degree and postgraduate education reform project (No. JGY2021162).

TRANSFER KAPITAL: Studi Praktik Ulama Dalam Pengentasan Kemiskinan di Kota Tasikmalaya, Jawa Barat

This study is carried out to explain a capital transfer owned by Ulama in act of eradicating poverty. Religious leaders known as ulama are intelligent individuals with traits common to the pesantren. They have their own habits, which include living in an environment where Islamic ideals are ingrained. In such contexts, there is something to do with how do the ulama go about their daily lives in a society that is always changing. This study uses a qualitative method. Inductively, it is possible to deduce the research findings from the described phenomena. The data were collected systematically through observation, interviews, and recording of data sources. The data collection took place at the Al-Amin Islamic Boarding School in Tasikmalaya City. The habitus theory is used in the study framework to examine the methods of ulama to alleviate poverty. According to the study's findings, the ulama possess socioeconomic, cultural, and symbolic capital. Transferring one capital into another is possible. In the pesantren setting, community empowerment serves as the format. Additionally, the ulama amassed material wealth in the form of religious capital and other types of capital, which improved their standing in society. The process of multiplying habits with capital strength that is gathered in the social environment that allows for a process of interaction between individuals who play a role in poverty alleviation is how the clergy practice of it.

Egotistic trap as a social influence technique

ABSTRACT Two experiments tested the effectiveness of an egotistic trap, a social influence technique based on the premise that people agree to requests that align with their desirable qualities. In the first experiment, people were asked to participate in a survey-based study. In the control conditions (standard request), approx. 32.7% said yes. Yet, when it was mentioned that intelligent individuals were sought after and the subject appeared intelligent, the percentage became 52.4%. The second experiment aimed to persuade car owners to have their cars inspected at an official service station. Of the participants, 56.7% agreed in the standard conditions. However, when the phrase ‘studies show that sensible customers have their cars inspected at official service stations’ was included, it became 71.7%.

Characteristics of online user-generated text predict the emotional intelligence of individuals

Emotional intelligence is a well-established indicator of performance and the ability to maintain successful social relationships. Moreover, it is potentially an important factor in social dynamics occurring on large digital platforms, e.g., opinion polarization, social conflict, and social influence. Users publicly exchange enormous amounts of text on digital platforms, which can potentially be used to extract real-life insights. Yet, currently, the prevalent approach to measuring emotional intelligence uses mainly self-report surveys and tasks—considerably limiting the feasibility of real-life large-scale studies. We analyze the online public texts of users, who also completed emotional intelligence measures, to find that characteristics of online public texts can be used to predict emotional intelligence at a level like that of commonly used psychometric indicators (e.g., SATs) to predict real-life outcomes. For example, we find that high emotional intelligence individuals consistently use more positive-affect language, less negative-affect language and use more social-oriented language than low emotional intelligence individuals. Our findings provide insight into the role of personality on digital platforms and open the possibility of studying emotional intelligence in large and diverse real-life data. To support the use of online public text as a tool to research emotional intelligence, we provide an anonymized version of the data.

Neuropsychiatric profile in average intelligent individuals with coexisting epilepsy and psychogenic non-epileptic seizures.

Global neuropsychological impairments with intellectual disability (ID) seem to play a major role in the occurrence of psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES) in epilepsy. Conversely, the pathophysiology underlying PNES combined with epilepsy without ID remains elusive. We investigated the neuropsychiatric profile in 26 average intelligent subjects (15 women, mean age: 40.04 ± 13.53 years) with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) plus PNES (TLE + PNES), compared with 28 with TLE and 22 with PNES alone, matched for age and sex. All subjects underwent neuropsychiatric assessment, including Beck Depression Inventory-2 (BDI-2), State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI), Dissociative Experiences Scale (DES), Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20), Traumatic Experience Checklist (TEC), and cognitive evaluation. TLE + PNES and PNES groups shared a similar psychiatric profile with higher levels of depression (BDI-2, P < 0.001), anxiety (STAI-S, P < 0.001; STAI-T, P < 0.001), dissociation (DES, P < 0.001), and alexithymia (TAS, P=0.005) scales than the TLE group. Nonetheless, like individuals with TLE, patients with TLE + PNES had a lower rate of a potentially traumatizing event than PNES. The very low rate of potentially traumatizing event in subjects with TLE + PNES leads us to hypothesize that epilepsy itself may be the psychophysiological distress that contributed to PNES. A psychopathological assessment in subjects with epilepsy is crucial to identify those more likely to develop PNES.

Exploring self-regulation theory as a mechanism of the effects of psychological contract fulfillment: The role of emotional intelligence.

As self-regulation theory has increasingly been used as a theoretical lens to explain the effects of psychological contract evaluations and employee outcomes, we test whether emotional intelligence (an ability for self-regulation) is a potential moderator of these relationships. More concretely, using a multiple times survey design in an education-based organization with 247 participants, we examined whether emotional intelligence moderates the mediation effect of emotional exhaustion on the relationship between psychological contract fulfillment and turnover intentions. Using a structural equations model (SEM) framework, our results support our hypotheses that individuals with low emotional intelligence do not experience the benefits of having fulfilled psychological contracts. Psychological contract fulfillment significantly reduces the likelihood of emotional exhaustion but only for individuals with high emotional intelligence. Consequently, turnover intentions are lower for emotionally intelligent individuals who experience the fulfillment of psychological contracts. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed. We conclude our study by suggesting that emotional intelligence should be considered as a relevant individual difference in future psychological contract research.

Mindfulness may be associated with less prosocial engagement among high intelligence individuals

This study examined the role of dispositional mindfulness in the association between intelligence and prosocial behavior. A total of 759 college students (mean age is 22.03; 477 females) participated in exchange for extra credit in psychology course. The results confirmed a positive relationship between intelligence and prosocial behavior as revealed by many studies, with empathy serving as a potential mediator. Mindfulness negatively moderated all the hypothesized pathways between research variables. Specifically, with the increase of the levels of dispositional mindfulness, (1) the intelligence-prosociality association changed from positive to negative, (2) the intelligence-empathy association changed from positively significant to insignificant, (3) the empathy-prosociality association changed from stronger to weaker. These findings may suggest some limitations of mindfulness. That is, present moment awareness and acceptance of the status quo may result in reduced arousal when witnessing others suffering, thereby preventing high intelligence individuals from helping the sufferers to get rid of trouble.

Inovasi Kurikulum dan Peningkatan Profesionalitas Guru

&#x0D; Globalization breeds a flood of unusually fast progress moreover, change is a necessity. To face the challenges and open doors in the era of globalization, especially globalization Training is expected to cause an uproar around the world of cities by 2030 and invite Indonesia Emas 2045, Indonesian public authorities are given various improvement strategies compiled by the nature of training, to have the option to compete seriously and be able to. There are two very imaginative issues in the instruction field, to be more specific: the approach to the development of educational programs is described by the introduction of the Education program 2013 and the structuring of the simultaneous expansion of abilities of impressive instructor skills. These two approaches should work together to trap people who are clever and have character. An intelligent individual is an individual who is deeply intelligent, mentally, socially and sincerely, while an individual with character is a person who can realize character values starting from religious lessons and pancasila as a "firm" premise in learning in Indonesia.&#x0D; Keywords: globalization, curriculum innovation

An Empirical Study of A Smart Education Model Enabled by the Edu-Metaverse to Enhance Better Learning Outcomes for Students

The Edu-Metaverse, a vast ensemble of different technologies, has initiated a great and unprecedented change in the field of education. This change has been effected through the following Edu-Metaverse characteristics: embodied and multimodal interaction; immersive teaching scenarios, which can accelerate learning and skill acquisition; and the emergence of AI-enabled agents. In comparison to traditional classroom teaching models, smart education is a collaborative and visual model that adopts the latest AI technologies to reach a learning outcome. However, a problem that should be considered is how a smart education model, enabled by the Edu-Metaverse, can be developed to enhance better learning outcomes for students. Such a model should highlight smart pedagogy in the context of the Edu-Metaverse, together with a smart teaching environment, multimodal teaching resources, and AI-enabled assessment. In this study, we focused on the teaching of college English to 60 students from Zhejiang Open University. We investigated the effectiveness of a smart education model, which was empowered by the Edu-Metaverse, in enhancing better learning outcomes for the students, using a combination of qualitative and quantitative research. After the one-semester-long experiment, questionnaires were sent out to complement the interview findings. It was found that the students who engaged in the smart education model in the Edu-Metaverse yielded higher scores in oral English, vocabulary and grammar, reading comprehension, English-to-Chinese translation, and writing than those who engaged in traditional instruction. Therefore, this study suggests that a smart education model enabled by the Edu-Metaverse, which is characterized by a highly immersive experience, multimodal interaction, and a high degree of freedom for resource sharing and creation can help learners to realize deep learning, develop their capacity for high-order thinking, and help them to become intelligent individuals in an online learning space. In order to facilitate this smart learning, we make the following suggestions for educational institutions: (1) teachers should improve the design of teaching scenarios, (2) teachers should focus on learning assessment that is based on core literacy, and (3) teachers’ knowledge of the architecture of the Edu-Metaverse should be enhanced.

Emotional Intelligence and Emotional Hypersensitivity in Gifted Individuals.

The goal of the present study was to investigate the associations between high intelligence, emotional intelligence (EI), and emotional hypersensitivity in a sample of 304 Mensa members. In addition, we aimed to shed light on how highly intelligent individuals process emotional information. In a previous study, we found that individuals with high EI in the general population are characterized by an attentional bias toward emotional information. We tested whether this effect holds for highly intelligent individuals by drawing on the same procedure: participants (N = 124 Mensa members) had to report a letter appearing behind a picture of a face with emotional or a neutral facial expression, and their reaction time to provide an answer was recorded. Comparing the results from the general population to those of Mensa members, we found that Mensa members did not show the attentional bias toward emotional information found in the general population. Mensa members were equally fast to evaluate letters replacing emotional and neutral expressions, and this result was not influenced by EI level. Possible explanations include the role of inhibitory processes (a factor related to intelligence), which might have contributed to treating emotional information as purely cognitive.

Is there a link between intelligence and lying?

In this paper we study the link between intelligence and lying. This is done under two distinct experimental paradigms: the die rolling paradigm, and the mind game paradigm. We compare the behaviour of subjects conditional on their intelligence in each of these paradigms when lying benefits the subject who lies (Selfish treatment) or a charitable cause (Charity treatment). We report some evidence that lying increases when it benefits a charitable cause, and limited evidence that more intelligent individuals increase lying when doing so benefits a charity. Our results are consistent with models of self–image concerns, and could have important implications for the existing lying literature.

High intelligence is not associated with a greater propensity for mental health disorders.

Studies reporting that highly intelligent individuals have more mental health disorders often have sampling bias, no or inadequate control groups, or insufficient sample size. We addressed these caveats by examining the difference in the prevalence of mental health disorders between individuals with high and average general intelligence (g-factor) in the UK Biobank. Participants with g-factor scores standardized relative to the same-age UK population, were divided into two groups: a high g-factor group (g-factor 2 SD above the UK mean; N=16,137) and an average g-factor group (g-factor within 2 SD of the UK mean; N=236,273). Using self-report questionnaires and medical diagnoses, we examined group differences in the prevalence of 32 phenotypes, including mental health disorders, trauma, allergies, and other traits. High and average g-factor groups differed across 15/32 phenotypes and did not depend on sex and/or age. Individuals with high g-factors had less general anxiety (odds ratio [OR]=0.69, 95% CI [0.64;0.74]) and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD; OR=0.67, 95 %CI [0.61;0.74]), were less neurotic (β=-0.12, 95% CI [-0.15;-0.10]), less socially isolated (OR=0.85, 95% CI [0.80;0.90]), and were less likely to have experienced childhood stressors and abuse, adulthood stressors, or catastrophic trauma (OR=0.69-0.90). However, they generally had more allergies (e.g., eczema; OR=1.13-1.33). The present study provides robust evidence that highly intelligent individuals do not have more mental health disorders than the average population. High intelligence even appears as a protective factor for general anxiety and PTSD.