Next study...Is there a negative correlation between critical thinking and intelligence or do people just have great difficulty (no doubt due to some evolutionary mechanism) thinking critically about things they are predisposed to agree with?
Rick Dr. Rick Froman, Chair Division of Humanities and Social Sciences Box 3055 x7295 rfro...@jbu.edu http://tinyurl.com/DrFroman Proverbs 14:15 "A simple man believes anything, but a prudent man gives thought to his steps." -----Original Message----- From: sbl...@ubishops.ca [mailto:sbl...@ubishops.ca] Sent: Friday, February 26, 2010 9:45 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: [tips] Why Liberals and Atheists Are More Intelligent ...is the provocative title of a new study, namely Kanazawa, S. (2010). Why Liberals and Atheists Are More Intelligent. _Social Psychology Quarterly_, first published on February 16 as doi:10.1177/0190272510361602 Abstract ( http://spq.sagepub.com/pap.dtl ) The origin of values and preferences is an unresolved theoretical question in behavioral and social sciences. The Savanna-IQ Interaction Hypothesis, derived from the Savanna Principle and a theory of the evolution of general intelligence, suggests that more intelligent individuals may be more likely to acquire and espouse evolutionarily novel values and preferences (such as liberalism and atheism and, for men, sexual exclusivity) than less intelligent individuals, but that general intelligence may have no effect on the acquisition and espousal of evolutionarily familiar values (for children, marriage, family, and friends). The analyses of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Study 1) and the General Social Surveys (Study 2) show that adolescent and adult intelligence significantly increases adult liberalism, atheism, and men´s (but not women´s) value on sexual exclusivity. News item on it here: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100224132655.h tm or http://tinyurl.com/y9racoq It should not escape your notice that the theory and results imply that state governors who hike the Appalachian trail and less- than-faithful golfers may not be the sharpest knifes in the drawer. But you already knew that. >From the news report, it seems that the author favours the interpretation of this correlation that high IQ causes the political, religious, and sexual preferences. Of course, it may be that evolution (i.e. genetics) is responsible for all of them. Stephen ----------------------------------------------------------------- Stephen L. Black, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology, Emeritus Bishop's University e-mail: sblack at ubishops.ca 2600 College St. Sherbrooke QC J1M 1Z7 Canada ----------------------------------------------------------------------- --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: rfro...@jbu.edu. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13039.37a56d458b5e856d05bcfb3322db5f8a&n=T&l=tips&o=902 or send a blank email to leave-902-13039.37a56d458b5e856d05bcfb3322db5...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=905 or send a blank email to leave-905-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
