Back in March I published this study: Kirkegaard, E. O. W. (2025). Does intelligence have nonlinear effects on political opinions? OpenPsych, 1(1). https://doi.org/10.26775/OP.2025.03.24 We sought to study intelligence’s relationship with…
I was browsing studies out in Lee Jussim's newish journal, The Journal of Open Inquiry in Behavioral Science (JOIBS), and saw this one: Rausch, Z. M. (2023). The value gap:…
It's time for another unpopular post, but the principle is right. During human history, there has been a very large number of civil wars, coups, and state collapses due to…
I finally managed to join the cool kids retraction club. The Scandinavian Journal of Psychology (SJoP) published a paper of ours about wokeness and mental health. I wrote about it…
The book is described as: In this unique amalgam of neuroscience, genetics, and evolutionary psychology, Ryan argues that leftists and rightists are biologically distinct versions of the human species that…
Richard Hanania likes to emphasize how right-wingers (in the USA) are more accepting of lying, pointing to grievous examples from Trump, Musk, the usual scams and low quality ads on…
I have a speculative model of sex differences among people with extreme beliefs. Here I just mean extreme in the sense of statistically uncommon, say, being a full-blown libertarian, HBD…
Here's a fun analysis I did as a side-project. I have a dataset of ~620 Danes who took a long vocabulary test, as well as answered 30 political questions. One…
i/o posted this figure on X: Leftist women were the most intolerant, an expected result. However, is this due to their ideology and sex, or something else, say, where they…
You have probably heard of that outlier Iowa poll that gave a surprisingly large advantage to Harris in the 2024 election. Related to this is that is what forecasters call…