Review of: The Nature of Intellectual Styles

Reviews the book, The nature of intellectual styles by Li-Fang Zhang and Robert J. Sternberg (see record 2006-03602-000). This book takes what people have called cognitive, personality, or intellectual styles and discusses research on them, whether they lead to values that a democratic society would find valuable, and finally advances the authors' threefold model. The authors call them all "intellectual styles," so this description includes what some would call cognitive or personality styles. One interesting observation by the authors is that there once was much research on what they call intellectual styles, but it declined because the various styles were not clearly defined and related to other styles and because researchers were inconsistent or confusing in their terminology. Thus, people did research on styles that interested them, but it was not related well to other styles or other research. It is hoped that this book will help bring styles back into the arena of usefulness and that we will see research on the Zhang and Sternberg threefold model of styles, as well as other important style research. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2017 APA, all rights reserved)