Publications by Topic

Linda S. Gottfredson

School of Education

University of Delaware

Newark, DE 19716 USA

 

Human intelligence and:

|| The general intelligence factor (g) || Education || Fairness in testing ||

|| Health || Life chances || Race || “Practical intelligence” ||

 

|| Political suppression of science || Multiculturalism ||

 

Vocational counseling and:

|| Theory of Circumscription & Compromise || Career development &

assessment || Occupations & work environments ||

 

 

 

Intelligence (General Intelligence Factor, g)

 

·        Gottfredson, L. S. (2003). "Environments" are genetic too. Review of Environmental effects on cognitive abilities, by R. J. Sternberg & E. L. Grigorenko (Eds.). Contemporary Psychology, 48(1), 71-74.

 

·        Gottfredson, L. S. (2002). Where and why g matters: Not a mystery. Human Performance, 15(1/2), 25-46.

 

·        Gottfredson, L. S. (2002). g: Highly general and highly practical. Pages 331-380 in R. J. Sternberg & E. L. Grigorenko (Eds.), The general factor of intelligence: How general is it? Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

 

·        Gottfredson, L. S. (2001). Intelligence and the American ambivalence toward talent. Pages 41-58 in N. Colangelo & S. G. Assouline (Eds.), Talent development IV: Proceedings from The 1998 Henry B. and Jocelyn Wallace National Research Symposium on Talent Development. Scottsdale, AZ: Great Potential Press.

 

·        Gottfredson, L. S. (2000). Intelligence. Pages 1359-1386 in E. F. Borgatta & R. J. V. Montgomery (eds.), Encyclopedia of sociology, Vol. 2 (2nd ed.) . New York: Macmillan Reference.

 

·        Gottfredson, L. S. (1998, Winter). The general intelligence factor. Scientific American Presents, 9(4), 24-29.

 

·        Gottfredson, L. S. (Ed.) (1997). Intelligence and social policy. Intelligence, 24(1). (Special issue)

 

·        Gottfredson, L. S. (1997). Why g matters: The complexity of everyday life. Intelligence, 24(1), 79-132.

 

·        Gottfredson, L. S. (1997). Mainstream science on intelligence: An editorial with 52 signatories, history, and bibliography. Intelligence, 24(1), 13-23.

 

·        Gottfredson, L. S. (1996). What do we know about intelligence? The American Scholar, Winter, 15-30.

 

·        Gottfredson, L. S. (1985). Education as a valid but fallible signal of worker quality: Reorienting an old debate about the functional basis of the occupational hierarchy. In A. C. Kerchoff (Eds.) Research in Sociology of Education and Socialization, Vol. 5 (pp. 119-165). Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.

 

 

….. and Education/Gifted Education

 

·        Gottfredson, L. S. (in press). Social consequences of group differences in cognitive ability (Consequencias sociais das diferencas de grupo em habilidade cognitiva). In C. E. Flores-Mendoza & R. Colom (Eds.), Introducau a psicologia das diferncas individuais. Porto Allegre, Brazil: ArtMed Publishers.

 

·        Gottfredson, L. S. (2005). Implications of cognitive differences for schooling within diverse societies. In C. C. L. Frisby & C. R. Reynolds (Eds.), Comprehensive Handbook of Multicultural School Psychology. New York: Wiley.

 

·        Gottfredson, L. S. (2004). Schools and the g factor. The Wilson Quarterly, Summer, 35-45.

 

·        Gottfredson, L. S. (2004). Realities in desegregating gifted education. In D. Booth & J. C. Stanley (Eds.), In the eyes of the beholder: Critical issues for diversity in gifted education (pp. 139-155). Waco, TX: Prufrock Press.

 

·        Gottfredson, L. S. (2003). The science and politics of intelligence in gifted education. Pages 24-40 in N. Colangelo & G. A. Davis (Eds.), Handbook of gifted education (3rd ed.). Boston: Allyn & Bacon.

 

·        Gottfredson, L. S. (2002). Assess and assist individuals, not sexes. Issues in Education, 8(1), 39-47.

 

·        Gottfredson, L. S., & Crouse, J. (1986). The validity versus utility of mental tests: Example of the SAT. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 29, 363-378.

 

 

…. and Fairness in Employment Testing

 

·        Gottfredson, L. S. (1996). Racially gerrymandering the content of police tests to satisfy the U.S. Justice Department: A case study. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 2(3/4), 418-446.

 

·        Gottfredson, L. S. (1994). The science and politics of race-norming. American Psychologist, 49 (11), 955-963.

 

·        Gottfredson, L. S. (1991). The evaluation of alternative measures of job performance. In A. K. Wigdor & B. F. Green, Jr. (Eds.), Performance assessment for the workplace. Volume II: Technical issues. Washington, DC: National Academy Press.

 

·        Gottfredson, L. S. (1990). Fairness or bias in job testing? A commentary in Issues in Science and Technology, 7 (1), 27-28.

 

·        Blits, J. H., & Gottfredson, L. S. (1990). Equality or lasting inequality? Society, 27 (3), 4-11.

 

·        Blits, J. H., & Gottfredson, L. S. (1990). Employment testing and job performance. The Public Interest, Winter, No. 98, 18-25.

 

·        Gottfredson, L. S., & Sharf, J. C. (Eds.) (Special Issue) (1988). Fairness in employment testing. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 33 (3).

 

·        Gottfredson, L. S. (1988). Reconsidering fairness: A matter of social and ethical priorities. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 33 (3), 293-319.

 

·        Gottfredson, L. S. (Ed.) (1986). The g factor in employment. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 29 (3). (Special Issue)

 

·        Gottfredson, L. S. (1986). Societal consequences of the g factor in employment. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 29, 379-410.

 

 

…. and Health

 

·        Gottfredson, L. S. (2004). Life, death, and intelligence. Journal of Cognitive Education and Psychology [online], 4, (1), 23-46. www.iacep.coged.org

 

·        Gottfredson, L. S., & Deary, I. J. (2004). Intelligence predicts health and longevity, but why? Current Directions in Psychological Science, 13(1), 1-4.

 

·        Gottfredson, L. S. (2004). Intelligence: Is it the epidemiologists' elusive "fundamental cause" of social class inequalities in health? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 86(1), 174-199.

 

 

…. and Life Chances

 

·        Gottfredson, L. S. (2004). Life, death, and intelligence. Journal of Cognitive Education and Psychology [online], 4, (1), 23-46. www.iacep.coged.org

 

·        Gottfredson, L. S. (2003). g, jobs, and life. In H. Nyborg (Ed.), The scientific study of general intelligence: Tribute to Arthur R. Jensen (pp. 293-342). New York: Pergamon.

 

·        Gottfredson, L. S. (2002). Where and why g matters: Not a mystery. Human Performance, 15(1/2), 25-46.

 

·        Gottfredson, L. S. (2002). g: Highly general and highly practical. Pages 331-380 in R. J. Sternberg & E. L. Grigorenko (Eds.), The general factor of intelligence: How general is it? Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

 

·        Gottfredson, L. S. (1997). Why g matters: The complexity of everyday life. Intelligence, 24(1), 79-132.

 

·        Gottfredson, L. S., & Crouse, J. (1986). The validity versus utility of mental tests: Example of the SAT. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 29, 363-378.

 

 

…. and Race

 

·        Gottfredson, L. S. (2005). Implications of cognitive differences for schooling within diverse societies. In C. C. L. Frisby & C. R. Reynolds (Eds.), Comprehensive Handbook of Multicultural School Psychology. New York: Wiley.

 

·        Gottfredson, L. S. (2005). What if the hereditarian hypothesis is true? Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 11, 311-319.

 

·        Gottfredson, L. S. (2000). Skills gaps, not tests, make racial proportionality impossible. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 6(1), 129-143.

 

·        Gottfredson, L. S. (2000). Equal potential: A Collective fraud. Society, 37(5), 19-28.

 

·        Gottfredson, L. S. (1996). Review of Race, evolution, and behavior: A life history perspective, by J. P. Rushton. Politics and the Life Sciences, 15, 141-143.

 

·        Gottfredson, L. S. (1994). Egalitarian fiction and collective fraud. Society, 31 (3), 53-59.

 

·        Gottfredson, L. S. (1987). The practical significance of black-white differences in intelligence. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 10 (3), 510-512.

 

·        Gottfredson, L. S. (1986). Societal consequences of the g factor in employment. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 29, 379-410.

 

 

…. Practical Intelligence

 

·        Gottfredson, L. S. (2003). Practical intelligence. Pages 740-745 in R. Fernandez-Ballesteros (Ed.), Encyclopedia of psychological assessment. London: Sage.

 

·        Gottfredson, L. S. (2003). On Sternberg's "Reply to Gottfredson." Intelligence, 31(4), 415-424.

 

·        Gottfredson, L. S. (2003). Dissecting practical intelligence theory: Its claims and evidence. Intelligence, 31(4), 343-397.

 

·        Gottfredson, L. S. (2001). Review of Practical Intelligence in Everyday Life by R. J. Sternberg et al. Intelligence, 29, 363-365.

 

Political Distortion and Suppression of Science

 

·        Gottfredson, L. S. (2005). Suppressing intelligence research: Hurting those we intend to help. In R. H. Wright & N. A. Cummings (Eds.), Destructive trends in mental health (pp. 155-186). New York: Taylor and Francis.

 

·        Gottfredson, L. S. (2000). Pretending that intelligence doesn't matter. Cerebrum, 2(3), 75-96.

 

·        Gottfredson, L. S. (2000). Equal potential: A Collective fraud. Society, 37(5), 19-28.

 

·        Gottfredson, L. S. (1998). Jensen, Jensenism, and the sociology of intelligence. Intelligence, 26(3), 291-299.

 

·        Gottfredson, L. S. (1997). Review of Inequality by design: Cracking the Bell Curve myth, by C. S. Fischer, M. Hout, M. S. Jankowski, S. R. Lucas, A. Swidler, & K. Voss. Personnel Psychology, 50(3), 741-746.

 

·        Gottfredson, L. S. (1997). Review of Prescription for failure: Race relations in the age of social science, by B. M. Roth. Political Psychology, 18, 209-215.

 

·        Gottfredson, L. S. (1996). Racially gerrymandering the content of police tests to satisfy the U.S. Justice Department: A case study. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 2(3/4), 418-446.

 

·        Gottfredson, L. S. (1996). Confronting the new particularism in academe. Journal of Management Inquiry, 5, 319-325.

 

·        Gottfredson, L. S. (1996). The new challenge to academic freedom. Journal of Homelessness and Social Distress, 5, 205-212.

 

·        Gottfredson, L. S. (1994). The science and politics of race-norming. American Psychologist, 49 (11), 955-963.

 

·        Gottfredson, L. S. (1994). Egalitarian fiction and collective fraud. Society, 31 (3), 53-59.

 

·        Gottfredson, L. S., & J. H. Blits. (1992). Legislated lawlessness on civil rights. Delaware Lawyer, 10 (2), 20-23.

 

·        Gottfredson, L. S. (1990). Fairness or bias in job testing? A commentary in Issues in Science and Technology, 7 (1), 27-28.

 

·        Blits, J. H., & Gottfredson, L. S. (1990). Equality or lasting inequality? Society, 27 (3), 4-11.

 

·        Blits, J. H., & Gottfredson, L. S. (1990). Employment testing and job performance. The Public Interest, Winter, No. 98, 18-25.

 

 

 

Multiculturalism

 

 

 

 

 

Circumscription and Compromise Theory of Vocational Choice

 

·        Gottfredson, L. S. (in press). Circumscription and compromise. In J. H. Greenhaus (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Career Development. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

 

·        Gottfredson, L. S. (2005). Using Gottfredson's theory of circumscription and compromise in career guidance and counseling. In S. D. Brown & R. W. Lent (Eds.), Career development and counseling: Putting theory and research to work (pp. 71-100). New York: Wiley.

 

·        Gottfredson, L. S. (2002). Gottfredson's theory of circumscription, compromise, and self-creation. Pages 85-148 in D. Brown (Ed.), Career choice and development (4th ed.). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

 

·        Gottfredson, L. S. (1996). Gottfredson's theory of circumscription and compromise. In D. Brown, & L. Brooks, (Eds.), Career choice and development (3rd ed.), pp. 179-232. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

 

·        Gottfredson, L. S. (1985). The role of self-concept in vocational theory. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 32 (1), 159-162.

 

·        Gottfredson, L. S. (1983). Creating and criticizing theory. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 23, 203-212.

 

·        Gottfredson, L. S. (1981). Circumscription and compromise: A developmental theory of occupational aspirations. Journal of Counseling Psychology (Monograph), 28 (6), 545-579.

 

 

 

 

Research on Career Development & Assessment

 

·        Gottfredson, L. S. (2003). The challenge and promise of cognitive career assessment. Journal of Career Assessment, 11(2), 115-135.

 

·        Gottfredson, L. S. (1999). The nature and nurture of vocational interests. In M. L. Savickas & A. R. Spokane (Eds.), Vocational interests: Their meaning, measurement, and use in counseling. Davies-Black Publishing.

 

·        Gottfredson, L. S., & Lapan, R. T. (1997). Assessing gender-based circumscription of occupational aspirations. Journal of Career Assessment, 5(4), 419-441.

 

·        Gottfredson, L. S. (1986). Special groups and the beneficial use of vocational interest inventories. In W. B. Walsh & S. Osipow (Eds.), Advances in Vocational Psychology, Vol. 1: The Assessment of Interests (pp. 127-198). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

 

·        Finucci, J. M., Gottfredson, L. S., & Childs, B. (1985). A follow-up study of dyslexic boys. Annals of Dyslexia, 35, 117-136.

 

·        Gottfredson, L. S., Finucci, J. M., & Childs, B. (1984). Explaining the adult careers of dyslexic boys: Variations in critical skills for high-level jobs. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 24, 355-373.

 

·        Gottfredson, L. S. (1982). The sex fairness of unnormed interest inventories. Vocational Guidance Quarterly, 31 (2), 128-132.

 

·        Gottfredson, L. S. (1982). Vocational research priorities. The Counseling Psychologist, 10 (2), 69-84.

 

·        Gottfredson, L. S., & Brown, V. C. (1981). Occupational differentiation among white men in the first decade after high school. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 19, 251-289.

 

·        Gottfredson, L. S., & Becker, H. J. (1981). A challenge to vocational psychology: How important are aspirations in determining male career development? Journal of Vocational Behavior, 18, 121-137.

 

·        Gottfredson, L. S. (1979). Aspiration-job match: Age trends in a large, nationally representative sample of young white men. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 26 (4), 319-328.

 

·        Gottfredson, L. S. (1978). Providing Black youth more access to enterprising work. Vocational Guidance Quarterly, 27 (2), 114-123.

 

·        Gottfredson, L. S. (1978). Race and sex differences in occupational aspirations: Their development and consequences for occupational segregation. Report No. 254. Baltimore, MD: Center for Social Organization of Schools, The Johns Hopkins University.

 

 

 

Research on Occupational Demands & Work Environments

 

·        Gottfredson, L. S., & Richards, J. M., Jr. (1999). The meaning and measurement of environments in Holland's theory. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 55, 57-73.

 

·        Gottfredson, L. S. (1988). Do we need sex-specific occupational prestige scales? (Review of Jobs and gender: A study of occupational prestige, by Christine Bose). Contemporary Psychology, 33 (4), 315.

 

·        Gottfredson, L. S. (1986). Occupational aptitude patterns map: Development and implications for a theory of job aptitude requirements (Monograph). Journal of Vocational Behavior, 29, 254-291.

 

·        Gottfredson, L. S., Simonsick, E., & Voorstad, F. (1981). Occupational statistics and vocational analysis. 1980 Proceedings of the Social Statistics Section of the American Statistical Association, 98-107.

 

·        Gottfredson, L. S. (1980). Construct validity of Holland's occupational typology in terms of prestige, census, Department of Labor, and other classification systems. Journal of Applied Psychology, 65 (6), 697-714.

 

·        Gottfredson, L. S. (1978). An analytical description of employment according to race, prestige, and Holland type of work. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 13, 210-221.

 

·        Gottfredson, L. S., & Brown, V. C. (1978). Holland codes for the 1960 and 1970 censuses: Detailed occupational titles. JSAS Catalog of Selected Documents in Psychology, 8, 22. (Ms. No. 1660).

 

·        Holland, J. L., Gottfredson, G. D., & Gottfredson, L. S. (1975). Read our reports and examine that data. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 7, 253-259.

 

·        Gottfredson, G. D., Holland, J. L., & Gottfredson, L. S. (1975). The relation of vocational aspirations and assessments to employment reality. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 7, 135-148.