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Robert J. Sternberg

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Robert J. Sternberg, born on December 8, 1949, is an American psychologist and psychometrician and a professor of Human Development at Cornell University. He is a distinguished associate of the Psychometrics Centre at the University of Cambridge. Among his major contributions to psychology, the most notable are the triarchic theory of intelligence and several influential theories related to creativity, wisdom, thinking styles, love, hate and leadership. A 2002 survey ranked him as the sixtieth most cited psychologist of the twentieth century.

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Sternberg (born December 8, 1949) is an American psychologist and psychometrician.
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    He is a professor of Human Development at Cornell University.
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    December 8, 1949
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    Among his major contributions to psychology, the most notable are the triarchic theory of intelligence and several influential theories related to creativity, wisdom, thinking styles, love, hate, and leadership.
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The triarchic theory of intelligence or three forms of intelligence, formulated by psychologist Robert Sternberg, aims to go against the psychometric approach to intelligence and take a more cognitive approach, which leaves it to the category of the cognitive-contextual theories.
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