Robert Sternberg
Robert Sternberg
Robert Sternbergis an American psychologist and psychometrician. He is Professor of Human Development at Cornell University. Prior to joining Cornell, Sternberg was president of the University of Wyoming. He has been Provost and Professor at Oklahoma State University, Dean of Arts and Sciences at Tufts University, IBM Professor of Psychology and Education at Yale University. He is a member of the editorial boards of numerous journals, including American Psychologist. He was the past President for the American Psychological Association...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth8 December 1949
CountryUnited States of America
Robert Sternberg quotes about
Leadership and civic engagement are an important part of the Tufts education, ... People often get themselves into power who are very bright, but not necessarily wise, and maybe even foolish.
develop leaders of the next generation, and not necessarily CEOs and presidents.
Research has shown that IQ type tests account for about 10% of the variation in how successful people are in various aspects of their adult lives.
There was already a famous Sternberg in psychology and it was obvious there would not be another.
Success in life does not necessarily originate with academic success.
I had planned to be a psychology major, but I bombed introductory psychology.
But what many psychologists have done, probably because they did well on a test themselves and everyone wants high self esteem, is to create this little box and then do their research inside it.
And so, you can do hundreds and hundreds of studies showing a general factor and just so long as you restrict your populations, your testing materials and the kinds of situations you look at, you can keep finding the same wrong thing again and again.
The world supports a multi-million dollar industry of intelligence and ability research, but it devotes virtually nothing to determine why this intelligence is squandered by engaging in amazing, breathtaking acts of stupidity.
ACT and SAT each have their own parts of the country. The GRE has its lock on graduate admissions. And so, one could blame the companies, but really, economically, they have no incentive to change things very much because they're getting the business.
You can quickly go from having passion and love to passion and hate when an act of betrayal happens.
When I grew up, there were no computers that anyone used, except for the big scientists. There was no internet, there were no VCRs.