Arthur Jensen, evolutionary biology, and racism.

Jackson, John P.

doi:10.1037/hop0000221

Cited by 5 publications

(5 citation statements)

References 123 publications

(181 reference statements)

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…Psychology journals as described below continued to publish accounts by Jensen and others on alleged inherited racial differences in intelligence (cf. Jackson, 2023), nature versus nurture, and inherited intelligence until more recently. Eugenics theories stated that certain genetic groups produce desirable or undesirable inherited characteristics and that psychology can identify and "weed out" undesirable ones.…”

Section: Susan Warshawmentioning

confidence: 99%

The American Psychological Association and antisemitism: Toward equity, diversity, and inclusion.

Walker,

Cole,

Friedman

et al. 2024

American Psychologist

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This article calls for the American Psychological Association (APA) to proactively include the elimination of antisemitism or prejudice against Jewish people in its current mission to disassemble all forms of racism from its organization as well as society. In this article, Jews (estimated as 2.4% of the population) are defined as a people with a common identity, ethnicity, and religion as they experience prejudice; their intersection in Jewish identity; the history and characteristics of antisemitism and its current manifestation in public life, academic institutions, and psychology. Despite Jews having made major contributions to the development of psychology as a profession, historically through the first half of the 20th century, Jews were systematically discriminated against within the discipline of psychology through quotas for acceptance into graduate training, discriminatory employment practices in university psychology departments, and most egregiously through the espousing of "scientific racism" including eugenics by prominent leaders in the APA. We describe how historically leaders in the APA engaged in overt and covert antisemitism while the APA continues to do little or nothing to combat it. We then offer suggestions for the mitigation and elimination of this form of bias, discrimination, and hate as it once again escalates in society. We recommend that the APA engages in research about antisemitism, its predictors, consequences, and power; evaluates the efficacy of intervention programs; encourages contact with various multicultural minoritized groups; and disseminates knowledge to educate about the psychological effects of antisemitism.

show abstract

Section: Susan Warshawmentioning

confidence: 99%

The American Psychological Association and antisemitism: Toward equity, diversity, and inclusion.

Walker,

Cole,

Friedman

et al. 2024

American Psychologist

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…In the 1960s, former APA President Henry Garrett and his circle worked directly with segregationists and neo-Nazi activists to preserve a segregated society (Jackson, 2005; Winston, 1998). In the following decades, Hans J. Eysenck and Arthur Jensen gave interviews on race to British and German neofascist periodicals (Jackson, 2022a). As documented by Tucker (2002), Philippe Rushton and Glayde Whitney assisted America’s leading racist, David Duke, with his autobiography, My Awakening .…”

Section: The Uses Of Rhrmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Private citizens are free to promote their political views, but scientists, as members of scholarly and professional societies, act under professional standards. Henry Garrett's work to overturn the Brown decision, Philippe Rushton's assistance to David Duke, and Richard Lynn's use of White Nationalist Richard Spencer as a publisher are clearly cases where these psychologists acted as psychologists distributing psychological research and not as private citizens (Jackson, 2022a). Prohibiting assistance to racial extremists is not a restriction on academic freedom.…”

Section: Scientific Racism In Psychologymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…One policy implication is to undercut the motivation for addressing discrimination and racism. For example, Jensen (1972) held that RHR justified cutting efforts addressing inequitable educational outcomes (see also Jackson, 2022a). Like Jensen, contemporary RHR psychologists support creating educational programs designed to meet each group's genetic limitations.…”

mentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

Confronting scientific racism in psychology: Lessons from evolutionary biology and genetics.

Bird,

Jackson,

Winston

2024

American Psychologist

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Although the American Psychological Association has taken a strong antiracism stance, scientific racism continues to be published in psychology journals and scholarly books. Recent articles claim that the folk categories of race are genetically meaningful divisions and that evolved genetic differences among races and nations are important for explaining immutable differences in cognitive ability, educational attainment, crime, sexual behavior, and wealth; all claims that are opposed by a strong scientific consensus to the contrary. These claims remain a serious source of harm through the naturalization of inequality and through support for the work of racial extremists. Contemporary "racial hereditarian research" claims to rest on modern genetics and evolutionary biology and to draw on their methods, such as genome-wide association studies. These new arguments fail to meet the evidentiary and ethical standards of these disciplines for the study of human variation. If psychology adopted standards from genetics and evolutionary biology, the current racial hereditarian work would be ineligible for publication. Actions that the American Psychological Association can take to deal with scientific racism are described. Public Significance StatementSome psychologists claim "new evidence" that genes, not racism, are primarily responsible for racial differences in education, income, and incarceration, a claim that is taken up by those promoting racial inequality and White nationalism. This "new evidence" does not meet established scientific and ethical standards of genetics and evolutionary biology. By adopting the standards of genetics and evolutionary biology, psychologists can help eliminate the harm caused by scientific racism while preserving academic freedom.

show abstract

“…A lista também incluía Corrado Gini e Luigi Gedda, ambos envolvidos na formulação de políticas eugênicas durante o regime fascista de Benito Mussolini, o geneticista sul-africano J. D. J. Hofmeyr, cujas ideias forneceram justificativa para a manutenção do apartheid (Dubow, 2015), os norte-americanos A. James Gregor (1929Gregor ( -2019, Robert E. Kuttner, Frank C. J. McGurk (1910McGurk ( -1995 (Jackson, 2023), e o sociólogo George Lundberg (1895Lundberg ( -1966. Muitos desses autores, incluindo Egon von Eickstedt (1892Eickstedt ( -1965, que trabalhou com Schwidetzsky mas não participou da coleção organizada pelo IAA-EE, também publicariam artigos Mankind Quarterly.…”

Section: Introductionunclassified

Eugenia e raça no pós-guerra: o periódico Mankind Quarterly e as teorizações da extrema-direita

Munareto

2023

Rev. Bras. Hist.

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

RESUMO Este artigo tem por objetivo analisar a persistência da eugenia após o final da Segunda Guerra. Tendo como objeto o periódico Mankind Quarterly, fundado em 1960 nos Estados Unidos, buscaremos demonstrar como um tipo específico de projeto eugênico, centrado na ideia de raça, se propagou dentro da extrema-direita a partir da rede internacional, a qual contava com participantes de diversos continentes e apoiando inúmeras ideias, que incluíam supremacia branca, antissemitismo, anticomunismo, neonazismo e neofascismo. Também procuraremos abordar como tais questões contribuem para demonstrar a continuidade da eugenia e do conceito de raça no pós-segunda guerra, contrariando a linha que durante muito tempo foi predominante dentro da historiografia sobre esses dois temas.

show abstract

Arthur Jensen, evolutionary biology, and racism.

Cited by 5 publications

References 123 publications

The American Psychological Association and antisemitism: Toward equity, diversity, and inclusion.

The American Psychological Association and antisemitism: Toward equity, diversity, and inclusion.

Confronting scientific racism in psychology: Lessons from evolutionary biology and genetics.

Eugenia e raça no pós-guerra: o periódico Mankind Quarterly e as teorizações da extrema-direita

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About