Paris, Oct 4 (The Conversation) Whether at school, at work, or in our leisure time, we encounter individuals from diverse cultural backgrounds. ''Cultural intelligence,'' which allows us to understand and adapt to different cultural codes, is an essential asset for promoting coexistence.

What does it mean to be intelligent? To pass a logic test? To solve an equation? To have a good memory? Intelligence has long been reduced to an IQ score . However, as early as the 1920s and 1940s, American psychologists such as Edward Thorndike, Louis Thurstone, and Raymond Cattell were already highlighting the existence of different forms of intelligence.

In the 1980s, another American psychologist, Robert Sternberg, proposed an approach that distinguished three complementary dimensions : analytical in

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