Intelligence 2.0 in I-O Psychology: Revival or Contextualization?

摘要

As long as completing one's duties, getting one's job done, and being successful in an organization requires intelligence in some form, a renewed interest in intelligence in industrial-organizational (I-O) research can advance the field, both theoretically and practically. We agree with this view that is well expressed by Scherbaum, Goldstein, Yusko, Ryan, and Hanges (2012). However, we think that the focal article is stronger in reviewing the field than in defining new approaches. We explore one area of innovation that is important in our view: the contextualization of theory and assessment of intelligence so as to bridge the gap between the context-independent conceptualizations and test of intelligence on one hand and intelligence as required in everyday activities in an 1-0 context on the other. Scherbaum et al. succinctly capture the general mood when they state that "we know what we need to know"; in our view, it could be rephrased as "we know what we can know, using the mainstream I-O approach to intelligence." Further developments are contingent on the preparedness to leave the safe grounds of context-independent measures of general intelligence and to adopt a more contextu-alized view.