The psychologist Keith R. Stanovich is quite controversial among other psychologists precisely because he writes about what high-IQ people miss in their thinking, but his studies point to very thought-provoking data and deserve to be grappled with by other psychologists. I have enjoyed his full-length book What Intelligence Tests Miss
The book mentioned, "Thinking, Fast and Slow", despite the boring title, is quite good. If you're the sort to hang around lesswrong.com it won't blow your mind, those less exposed to those ideas will find it fascinating (and probably a bit more accessible in book form).
> The psychologist Keith R. Stanovich is quite controversial among other psychologists precisely because he writes about what high-IQ people miss in their thinking
Sounds interesting; care to summarize what those things are?
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=west%20stanovich%20m...
The psychologist Keith R. Stanovich is quite controversial among other psychologists precisely because he writes about what high-IQ people miss in their thinking, but his studies point to very thought-provoking data and deserve to be grappled with by other psychologists. I have enjoyed his full-length book What Intelligence Tests Miss
http://yalepress.yale.edu/YupBooks//book.asp?isbn=9780300123...
which meticulously cites much of the previous literature on human cognitive biases and other gaps in rationality of human thinking.
And here is the submitted article's link to a description of the Need for Cognition Scale:
http://www.liberalarts.wabash.edu/ncs/