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The Mensa Foundation explores the conversation on intelligence through the Mensa Research Journal, a publication curating groundbreaking research into the complexities of intelligence.
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Explore Past Issues
Dive into previous editions of the Mensa Research Journal, each offering a unique exploration of intelligence. From cutting-edge research to thought-provoking insights, these issues cover a range of topics that expand our understanding of cognition, creativity, and beyond.
Issue
Topic
Giftedness in the Workplace
Volume 55, Issue 2
A detailed exploration of the 2024 Mensa Foundation Colloquium topic, focusing on the challenges and complexities faced by gifted individuals in their careers.
Celebrating the 2023 Awards for Excellence in Research Recipients
Volume 55, Issue 1
This issue features the 2023 Awards for Excellence in Research award-winning research. These awards recognize and celebrate the groundbreaking investigations in the disciplines of intelligence, intellectual giftedness and related fields.
A Deep Dive Into Animal Learning and Cognition
Volume 54, Issue 3
This issue of the Mensa Research Journal explores animal intelligence with topics including how animals visually process the world, how they might adapt to transportation methods of other animals, questions about whether it makes sense to compare animal and human intelligence, the logic of animal swarm behavior, and much more.
The Talent and Potential of Neurodiversity
Volume 54, Issue 2
This issue of the Mensa Research Journal explores the various frameworks of the neurodiversity movement. The articles will provide a deeper appreciation for the complexity of human experience. This issue is a companion piece to the 2023 Colloquium featuring the work of the event’s speakers.
Celebrating the 2022 Awards for Excellence in Research Recipients
Volume 54, Issue 1
This issue features the 2022 Awards for Excellence in Research honorees’ award-winning research. The Awards for Excellence in Research represent the best and latest thinking in the pursuit of understanding and best using the human brain.
Becoming Creative
Volume 53, Issue 3
While the Mensa Research Journal tends to curate work related to intelligence, creativity adds an important dimension to this discussion. This issue’s collection of articles provides encouraging evidence that creativity can be facilitated and enhanced using specific strategies.
Giftedness Across the Lifespan
Volume 53, Issue 2
Intelligence and giftedness is often considered through a psychometric perspective and within educational contexts. The 2022 summer issue of the Mensa Research Journal aims to shift and broaden this perspective to incorporate the lived experiences at the different ages and stages, and within contexts important to people’s lives today. It also serves as a companion piece to the 2022 Colloquium featuring the work of the event’s speakers.
Celebrating the 2021 Awards for Excellence in Research Recipients
Volume 53, Issue 1
In conjunction with the celebration of its 50th anniversary, the Mensa Foundation recently announced its 2021 research award winners. The winter issue of the Mensa Research Journal is dedicated to honoring those award winners and sharing some of the fascinating work representing their achievements.