Who hasn’t heard of the intelligence quotient (or I.Q.27)! It is connected to the elusive idea that
some people’s brains are more efficient than others, that these people are destined to be more
successful, more respected, more admired than their peers. It often elicits jealousy and
resentment, sometimes pride when a parent finds out their child is more cognitively endowed
than most.
People view the concept of I.Q. as purely cerebral, devoid of consequences on awareness,
behavior, or relationships. The idea of intelligence being related to psychology is overlooked, or
even utterly denied by many practitioners and lay-people alike. However, one can witness
evidence of this connection in certain psychology volumes0 about the emotional issues of “The
Gifted266”.
This link between degrees of intelligence and personality traits may be taken much further,
until one can actually portray the standard personality exhibited by members of each I.Q.