Reviewed by Amy Morin, LCSW Key Takeaways The term "genius" is no longer used in IQ classifications, but scores above 140 are ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. We tend to think intelligence is about speed, trivia, or math tricks, but real cognitive sharpness shows up in unexpected places.

The term genius refers to someone with extraordinary intellectual or creative power. Psychologists in the early 1900s were the first to measure and define genius in terms of a person's intelligence ...

Four year old Heidi Hankins is all over the news. According to the Daily Mail, she "has an IQ of 159—only one point below Albert Einstein's—and has become one of the youngest members of Mensa." As her ...

Who has the highest IQ in history? One answer would be: a 10-year-old girl from Missouri. In 1956, according to lore, she took a version of the Stanford-Binet IQ test and recorded a mental age of 22 ...