Integrating Hot and Cool Intelligences: Thinking Broadly about Broad Abilities

Abstract

Although results from factor-analytic studies of the broad, second-stratum abilities of human intelligence have been fairly consistent for decades, the list of broad abilities is far from complete, much less understood. We propose criteria by which the list of broad abilities could be amended and envision alternatives for how our understanding of the hot intelligences (abilities involving emotionally-salient information) and cool intelligences (abilities involving perceptual processing and logical reasoning) might be integrated into a coherent theoretical framework.

Keywords

• emotional intelligence
• personal intelligence
• hot intelligences
• broad abilities
• Cattell-Horn-Carroll Theory of Cognitive Abilities