A multiplicity of intelligences

Abstract

As a psychologist, I was surprised by the huge public interest in The Bell Curve, the book on human intelligence by psychologist Richard Herrnstein and policy analyst Charles Murray (1994). Most of the ideas in the book were familiar to both social scientists and the general public. Indeed, the Berkeley educational psychologists Arthur Jensen (1969) and Richard Herrnstein (1973) had written popularly about the very same ideas a quarter of a century before. Perhaps, I reasoned, every quarter century a new generation of Americans-and perhaps individuals from other lands-desires to be acquainted with the psychologist’s orthodoxy about intelligence.

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