This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American In France in the 1860s, a teenage boy took ...

French psychologist Alfred Binet (1859-1911) took a different tack than most psychologists of his day: he was interested in the workings of the normal mind rather than the pathology of mental illness.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Students acting up in class, screaming, even spitting and throwing things. It can happen in many classrooms. But some of them aren't able to control their actions. At the ...

M. BINET'S volume originally appeared in the “Bibliothèque Scientifique Internationale,” and was reviewed in NATURE in July 1892 (vol. xlvi. p. 219). The subject with which it deals is beset with ...

Intelligence tests are among the most influential - but also controversial - innovations of the 20th century. Alfred Binet set out with the best of intentions to determine how to place children in the ...