What do you mean by “gifted adults”? Just “adults with very high IQ”? I think there’s a standard trick for that when you pen them all together and then you have a regular human society where the social effects of giftedness disappear. Or do gifted people have abnormal psychology in absolute terms, not just relative with alienation and boredom and so on?
There are lots and lots of definitions for “gifted”. State’s legal definitions range from vague things like “people with a talent” to numerical specifications. The gist: I’ve seen definitions that range from a rarity of 1 in 4 to 1 in 50. Truth be told, my real interest is highly gifted adults and geniuses, not just “gifted adults” in general.
From what I’ve read, “highly gifted” tends to be associated with IQs > 145.
The people in each IQ range have their own characteristics. People with IQs near 130 tend to be more popular. People with IQs around 160 or greater have difficulty fitting in and tend to limit social contact because they are too different. These are relative obviously. It has been observed that people with IQs over 145 frequently have enough intensity that it results in them coming across in an energetic way that is called a variety of things from electric to charismatic. This appears to be genetic. There are other things like how exceptionally gifted children have trouble answering “simple” questions and doing “simple” tasks like “draw a bird”—too many options come to mind, and they have to choose, then, between 100 kinds of birds.
This is just the tip of the iceburg when it comes to the differences that have been talked about. I am not sure that any one piece of research I’ve read is true, but there are probably over a hundred differences that have been either researched or observed by psychologists who work with gifted individuals. I have observed a lot of these differences for myself, and have seen patterns. I can also use what I know to make guesses about who is gifted and how gifted they are and I am usually close. I feel certain that there are a huge number of differences of both types, though what, specifically they are and how common they are to each IQ range would be hard to say.
Also, I don’t think it’s called “abnormal psychology” when there’s nothing wrong with them.
What do you mean by “gifted adults”? Just “adults with very high IQ”? I think there’s a standard trick for that when you pen them all together and then you have a regular human society where the social effects of giftedness disappear. Or do gifted people have abnormal psychology in absolute terms, not just relative with alienation and boredom and so on?
There are lots and lots of definitions for “gifted”. State’s legal definitions range from vague things like “people with a talent” to numerical specifications. The gist: I’ve seen definitions that range from a rarity of 1 in 4 to 1 in 50. Truth be told, my real interest is highly gifted adults and geniuses, not just “gifted adults” in general.
From what I’ve read, “highly gifted” tends to be associated with IQs > 145.
The people in each IQ range have their own characteristics. People with IQs near 130 tend to be more popular. People with IQs around 160 or greater have difficulty fitting in and tend to limit social contact because they are too different. These are relative obviously. It has been observed that people with IQs over 145 frequently have enough intensity that it results in them coming across in an energetic way that is called a variety of things from electric to charismatic. This appears to be genetic. There are other things like how exceptionally gifted children have trouble answering “simple” questions and doing “simple” tasks like “draw a bird”—too many options come to mind, and they have to choose, then, between 100 kinds of birds.
This is just the tip of the iceburg when it comes to the differences that have been talked about. I am not sure that any one piece of research I’ve read is true, but there are probably over a hundred differences that have been either researched or observed by psychologists who work with gifted individuals. I have observed a lot of these differences for myself, and have seen patterns. I can also use what I know to make guesses about who is gifted and how gifted they are and I am usually close. I feel certain that there are a huge number of differences of both types, though what, specifically they are and how common they are to each IQ range would be hard to say.
Also, I don’t think it’s called “abnormal psychology” when there’s nothing wrong with them.