{"id":195261,"date":"2024-08-26T16:24:57","date_gmt":"2024-08-26T21:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/non-cognitive-skills-dna-based-analyses-suggest-a-hidden-key-to-academic-success"},"modified":"2024-08-26T16:24:57","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T21:24:57","slug":"non-cognitive-skills-dna-based-analyses-suggest-a-hidden-key-to-academic-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/non-cognitive-skills-dna-based-analyses-suggest-a-hidden-key-to-academic-success","title":{"rendered":"Non-cognitive skills: DNA-based analyses suggest a hidden key to academic success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/non-cognitive-skills-dna-based-analyses-suggest-a-hidden-key-to-academic-success2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new <i>Nature Human Behaviour<\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41562-024-01967-9\" target=\"_blank\">study<\/a>, jointly led by Dr. Margherita Malanchini at Queen Mary University of London and Dr. Andrea Allegrini at University College London, has revealed that non-cognitive skills, such as motivation and self-regulation, are as important as intelligence in determining academic success. These skills become increasingly influential throughout a child\u2019s education, with genetic factors playing a significant role.<\/p>\n<p>The research, conducted in collaboration with an international team of experts, suggests that fostering non-cognitive skills alongside <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/cognitive+abilities\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">cognitive abilities<\/a> could significantly improve educational outcomes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur research challenges the long-held assumption that intelligence is the primary driver of <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/academic+achievement\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">academic achievement<\/a>,\u201d says Dr. Malanchini, Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Queen Mary University of London.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new Nature Human Behaviour study, jointly led by Dr. Margherita Malanchini at Queen Mary University of London and Dr. Andrea Allegrini at University College London, has revealed that non-cognitive skills, such as motivation and self-regulation, are as important as intelligence in determining academic success. These skills become increasingly influential throughout a child\u2019s education, with [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,32,412,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-education","category-genetics","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}