Have you ever wondered about those gifted and talented assessments that school systems might provide for children? What they include? What you could do as a parent to help a child prepare for the ...

Interest in intelligence dates back more than a century. However, it wasn't until psychologist Alfred Binet was asked to ...

French psychologist Alfred Binet (1859-1911) took a different tack than most psychologists of his day: he was interested in the workings of the normal mind rather than the pathology of mental illness.

This 1937 version of the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales was produced in the United States. It used objects because this IQ test was aimed at children. Credit: SSPL/ Getty Images The Hechinger ...

Who was smarter--Galileo or Mozart? Answering that question seems impossible. After all, the former was an astronomer, the latter, a composer. Asking which of the two was smarter seems akin to forcing ...

A three-year-old boy from the UK has become the youngest person to join Mensa UK, as reported by CNN. Scoring 142 on the Stanford-Binet IQ test, Muhammad Haryz Nadzim is in the 99.7th percentile of IQ ...

Beginning in the 1900s, scientists began to develop different methods for measuring intelligence. These tests were used often to justify racial and ethnic discrimination. The results of these ...