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What is the relationship between IQ and curiosity?

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With reference to twenty years inside Mensa, heightened curiosity seems to correlate with high IQ (or, at least with high IQ in combination with the interest to join a society primarily preoccupied with finding meaningfulness around this fact). If I'm allowed to speculate, I'd guess it has to do with the over-capable brain. read more

With reference to twenty years inside Mensa, heightened curiosity seems to correlate with high IQ (or, at least with high IQ in combination with the interest to join a society primarily preoccupied with finding meaningfulness around this fact). read more

Specifically, it relates to expanding working memory capacity, which leads me to how it relates to curiosity as a source of motivation: my curiosity overtakes the skepticism of others' as to whether IQ (or intelligence) increases are possible. read more

Previous studies done on the correlation between specific curiosity and intelligence have been inconclusive. In the present study, a test of state specific curiosity and a test of intelligence were administered to 76 ~s from ~1o introductory psychology courses. Three hypotheses were tested. read more

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