Nordic Mensa Fund

The Nordic Mensa Fund supports research into the characteristics, nature and uses of human intelligence, for the benefit of humanity.

About the Nordic Mensa Fund

The Nordic Mensa Fund supports research into the nature,

characteristics, and uses of intelligence. The research may consider physical and medical, as well as psychological, sociological or educational aspects of intelligence. Read more...

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Om den Nordiska Mensastiftelsen

Nordiska Mensastiftelsens ändamål är att främja forskning kring den mänskliga intelligensens natur, karakteristika och användning med hänsyn till såväl fysiska och medicinska som psykologiska, sociologiska och utbildningsmässiga aspekter. Läs mer...

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Small project grants 2022: Finding age related changes in brain structural changes

Leonardo Bonetti from the University of Aarhus, Denmark was in 2022 awarded a grant for the project: The impact of ageing on the brain underpinnings of intelligence and auditory memory.

Article of the Year awards 2022: Development of intelligence is not affected by parents’ traumatic experiences

In 2022 Gustaf Gredebäck was awarded for the article “Fluid intelligence in refugee children. A cross-sectional study of potential risk and resilience factors among Syrian refugee children and their parents”

Article of the Year awards 2022: “Self-Evaluated Multiple Intelligences of Gifted Upper-Secondary-School Physics Students in Finland”

The article examines the self-evaluated intelligence of gifted Finnish upper-secondary-school physics students, with the focus being on gender differences in students’ self-rated intelligence profiles.

Article of the Year Awards 2022: Statistical Analyses Matter

Nordic Mensa Fund awarded three article of the year -awards in 2022. Kimmo Sorjonen was awarded for the article "Regression to the mean in latent change score models: an example involving breastfeeding and intelligence".