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Two interesting new studies have come out during this election season, which might have liberals and conservatives at odds more than ever.
Last year, a study done at Brock University suggested that a lower I.Q. goes hand in hand with both racism and conservative beliefs. The findings are published in Psychological Science and the study is entitled “Bright Minds and Dark Attitudes: Lower Cognitive Ability Predicts Greater Prejudice Through Right-Wing Ideology and Low Intergroup Contact.”
Essentially, the study examines the impact of cognitive ability on social attitudes like prejudice and conservatism. The authors predicted that a lower cognitive ability, as measured by the subject’s intelligence quotient or I.Q., would lead to greater social prejudice in adulthood. The authors also hypothesized beforehand that the social prejudice would lead the subjects to endorse “right-wing ideologies”, namely “social conservatism” and “right-wing authoritarianism.”
Turns out, the authors were right on all counts....
5 comments:
Thank you for lumping together racism and conservative beliefs in the same comment.
Absolutely unbelievable!
There are a number of clinical studies and books (The Political Mind) that document linkage between authoritarianism and alignment with basic conservative (Republiucan) beliefs and principles and the naratives that define conservative idealogy. The linkage to racism (clinical study) appears to be new. The low I.Q. linkage to social conservatism is understandable; what needs to be questioned is how deep and broad is the low IQ pool. I'm curious if there is any linkage to EI (emotional intelligence). Anon 11:19,"lumping racism and conservative beliefs" together is not at all new. What may be new is a clinical study that statistically documents "lumping" the two together.
I've always thought racism was a brain disease. Notice how many notable people suddenly embarass themselves in their old age by suddenly uttering racist comments?
Remember Helen Thomas?
Those Fox fools who say liberalism is a mental disorder appear to have it backwards!
Unfortunately there are still many stupid liberals. There is a huge difference between someone that becomes liberal by indoctrination and someone that becomes liberal by critical thinking and reasoning. One is smart, one spews dogma. Most are the latter.
Anon 10:28,
The same can be said of Conservatives.
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