Intelligence, personality, and prudence

Abstract

(from the chapter) propose a broad concept of intelligence, which includes intellectual personality traits that help people to achieve their goals / these traits can be described as constituting a more comprehensive trait of prudence ␥ present (the) account of prudence in three parts / describe an account of intelligence and practical rationality / present a normative account of intelligent behavior, paying particular attention to the nature, addition, and trading-off of goals, and (review) descriptive violations of this normative theory / introduces the concept of prudence, historically and in its recent developments, and demonstrates numerous theoretical points of contact between it and the themes and preoccupations of {(Jonathan)} Baron's account of intelligence and rationality / illustrate the integrative sweep of the concept of prudence with discussions of recent empirical work in the psychology of personality (goal concepts, cognition, self-defeating behavior and cognitive strategies, and time-perspective and self-control) / attempts to demonstrate how the prudential concerns that organize one account of intelligence and practical rationality can be followed into contemporary personality research