Atheism, Liberalism Signs Of Intelligence, Liberal, Atheist Psychologist Says

Wednesday, February 24, 2010 - 13:00 in Psychology & Sociology

The higher your IQ the more likely you are to exhibit social values and religious and political preferences that are novel to the human species in evolutionary history. Specifically, liberalism and atheism, and for men, preference for sexual exclusivity correlate with higher intelligence, a new study Social Psychology Quarterly finds. The study advances a new theory to explain why people form particular preferences and values. The theory suggests that more intelligent people are more likely than less intelligent people to adopt evolutionarily novel preferences and values, but intelligence does not correlate with preferences and values that are old enough to have been shaped by evolution over millions of years." read more

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