Intelligence 101

• Why does intelligence continue to fascinate us?
• Is there only one kind of intelligence, or are there multiple intelligences?
• Is intelligence innate or is it malleable?
• Where is the study of intelligence heading?

Intelligence has been among the most controversial constructs in all of the social sciences, from its origin as a concept a thousand years ago by such thinkers as Aristotle, Socrates, and Plato to the present. The answer to the question "What is in…