A groundbreaking study out of Brock University in Ontario, Canada has identified a link between people who possess low IQs in addition to conservative beliefs and increased presence of racism.
Lead research psychologist Gordon Hodson used the data from previous studies which analyzed the increased level of racism in children who received less education to begin his study’s look at how intelligence played a role in such behavior.
Low-intelligence adults tend to gravitate toward socially conservative ideologies, the study found. Those ideologies, in turn, stress hierarchy and resistance to change, attitudes that can contribute to prejudice, Hodson wrote.
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