Why Liberals and Atheists Are More Intelligent

Kanazawa, Satoshi

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“…suggests that "the perceived threat may vary depending on cognitive level -sources of threat such as complexity, novelty, and ambiguity may be more threatening to those who score low as opposed to those who score high on cognitive tests." Kanazawa (2009Kanazawa ( , 2010 proffers an evolutionary theory to explain the relationship between intelligence and ideology. He argues that in the human ancestral environment, most problems were recurrent adaptive ones and that the human brain consists of a large number of domainspecific evolved psychological mechanisms to solve these recurrent problems.…”

Section: Intelligence and Ideologymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…4 For work on the so-called Big Five personality traits which we explain in the next section see Alford and Hibbing (2007), Barbaranelli et al (2007), Caprara et al (1999Caprara et al ( , 2006, Carney et al (2008), Gerber et al (2010), Gosling, et al (2003), Jost et al (2003), McCrae (1996), Mehrabian (1996), Mondak and Halperin (2008), Rentfrow et al (2009), Riemann et al (1993), Schoen and Schumann (2007), Stenner (2005), and Van Hiel, et al (2000). For research on the relationship between cognitive abilities and ideology see Dreay, et al (2008a), Jost et al (2003), Kanazawa (2009Kanazawa ( , 2010, Kroth et al (2006), McCrae (1996), Saucier (2000), Schoon et al (2010), and Stankov (2007)]. …”

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confidence: 99%

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Income and Ideology: How Personality Traits, Cognitive Abilities, and Education Shape Political Attitudes

2011

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We find that cognitive abilities, educational attainment, and some personality traits indirectly affect ideological preferences through changes in income. The effects of changes in personality traits on ideology directly and indirectly through income are in the same direction. However, the indirect effects of cognitive abilities and education often offset the direct effects of these variables on ideological preferences. That is, increases in cognitive abilities and education significantly increase income, which reduces the tendency of individuals to express leftist preferences. These indirect effects are in some cases sizeable relative to direct effects. The indirect effects of cognitive abilities through income overwhelm the direct effects such that increasing IQ increases rightwing preferences. For ideological preferences over economic policy the indirect effects of advanced education also overwhelm the direct effects, such that individuals with higher education are more likely to express rightwing preferences than those with lower education.

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Section: Intelligence and Ideologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Income and Ideology: How Personality Traits, Cognitive Abilities, and Education Shape Political Attitudes

2011

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“…When one confronts the discourse of an alien worldview, one of the most pervasive errors is to infer a lack of intelligence and rationality due to prejudicious background beliefs. As a matter of fact, there exists empirical evidence suggesting that "left-wing" progressives are in average more intelligent than "right-wing" traditionalists [62]. However, I shall also leave open the hypothesis that PC discourse, particularly in its most postmodern verve, may be primarily rhetorical and not designed to be truth-apt [56].…”

Section: Formalizing the Worldview Of Contemporary Social Justice Adhmentioning

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The Unreasonable Destructiveness of Political Correctness in Philosophy

Doria¹

2017

Philosophies

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I submit that epistemic progress in key areas of contemporary academic philosophy has been compromised by politically correct ("PC") ideology. First, guided by an evolutionary account of ideology, results from social and cognitive psychology and formal philosophical methods, I expose evidence for political bias in contemporary Western academia and sketch a formalization for the contents of beliefs from the PC worldview taken to be of core importance, the theory of social oppression and the thesis of anthropological mental egalitarianism. Then, aided by discussions from contemporary epistemology on epistemic values, I model the problem of epistemic appraisal using the frameworks of multi-objective optimization theory and multi-criteria decision analysis and apply it to politically correct philosophy. I conclude that philosophy guided by politically correct values is bound to produce constructs that are less truth-conducive and that spurious values which are ideologically motivated should be abandoned. Objections to my framework stemming from contextual empiricism, the feminine voice in ethics and political philosophy are considered. I conclude by prescribing the epistemic value of empirical adequacy, the contextual value of political diversity and the moral virtue of moral courage to reverse unwarranted trends in academic philosophy due to PC ideology.

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“…Acceptance or denial, representation and interpretation of the values of civil society, their categorization and awareness should be mediated by the level of intellectual development of a person (Kanazawa, 2010).…”

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Intellectual Differentiation In The Structure Of Students’ Civil Identity

Akimova¹

2017

The European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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In this article we present the results of the study of the level of civil identity in relation to the indicators of intellectual development and their variability among students in different socio-cultural environments: in Moscow, which is the capital and the largest city in Russia, and in much smaller Kaluga.We've found that the number and nature of the interrelations between the adoption of civil values and intellectual development has its own peculiarities among students in Moscow and provincial universities.In the capital the intelligence promotes adoption of liberal values and acknowledgement of need for democratic reforms in Russia. In the provincial society we can see a slightly different picture: the level of recognition of the rights of ethnic and sexual minorities increases alongside intelligence levels. Overall, there are some general trends. First of all, higher intelligence levels are associated with stronger civil identity. At the same time, there are certain conflicts and inconsistencies in the structure of the latter:some civic values are persistant (e.g. freedom of information), while others are underrepresented (such as freedom of expression, freedom of peaceful assembly etc.). These results suggest that intelligence and the socio-cultural conditions of its development are critical to the formation of civil identity of modern youth.

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Why Liberals and Atheists Are More Intelligent

Cited by 158 publications

References 80 publications

Income and Ideology: How Personality Traits, Cognitive Abilities, and Education Shape Political Attitudes

Income and Ideology: How Personality Traits, Cognitive Abilities, and Education Shape Political Attitudes

The Unreasonable Destructiveness of Political Correctness in Philosophy

Intellectual Differentiation In The Structure Of Students’ Civil Identity

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