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 Richard E. Nisbett is a Distinguished University Professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He has written numerous books on intelligence and cultural psychology and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences.


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Richard Nisbett

Intelligence and How to Get It


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You're only as smart as your genes have programmed you to be. Asians are smarter than westerners. Some nationalities do better in engineering or music than others. Those beliefs have been around for decades, even among many experts. Now social psychologist Richard Nisbett takes those common beliefs apart, and shows how environment plays a much bigger role in intelligence than previously thought. His book is called "Intelligence and How to Get It."

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