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New ideas about intelligence 

This is a longer than usual post because there is an article and two responses. All are available as open text. Unlike some of my posts that try to offer immediately helpful information, this one is more historical and theoretical, but, in my view, has important implications. First, Ackerman (2023) published “Intelligence … moving beyond the lowest common denominator” in American Psychologist. Here’s the highly edited article with some information in bold:

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Trauma-related diagnostic overshadowing 

I had never heard the expression “diagnostic overshadowing,” but I now think it’s very important as a reminder to clinicians to be conscientious about primary diagnoses. Wislocki & Zalta (2023) published “Assessing the Existence of Trauma-related Diagnostic Overshadowing in Adult Populations” in Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy. Here’s the edited abstract and impact statement with key information in bold:

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Play in Predictive Minds

Andersen, Kiverstein, Miller & Roepstorff (2022) published “Play in Predictive Minds: A cognitive theory of play” in Psychological Review.

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