Cognitive ability and political beliefs in the United States |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Educational, School, and Counseling Psychology, University of Missouri, United States;2. Educational Psychology Department, Baylor University, United States;1. University of Southern Denmark, Denmark;2. University of Minnesota, United States;1. Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States;2. Center for Behavioral Genomics Twin Research Laboratory, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States;3. Department of Public Health, University of Helsinki, Finland;4. Computational Science Research Center, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, United States;5. Department of Psychiatry, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States;6. Department of Psychology, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States;7. Research Service, St. Louis Veterans Affairs Medical Center, St. Louis, MO, United States;8. Department of Biostatistics, St. Louis University School of Public Health, St. Louis, MO, United States;9. Center of Excellence for Stress and Mental Health, VA San Diego Healthcare System, La Jolla, CA, United States;1. Department of Psychology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States;2. Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, United States;3. Department of Psychological Science, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, United States;1. School of Criminal Justice, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221, United States;2. Center for Social and Humanities Research, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia;3. College of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306-1127, United States;4. Department of Criminal Justice, Pennsylvania State University, Abington, PA 19001, United States |
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| Abstract: | Recent evidence indicates that cognitive ability has a monotonically positive relation to socially liberal beliefs and some measures of fiscally conservative beliefs, and that it has a non-monotonic relation to other measures of fiscally conservative beliefs. This study examines the relationship between cognitive ability and political beliefs in a recent, nationally representative sample of American adults. It finds that cognitive ability is positively associated with both socially liberal beliefs and fiscally conservative beliefs. The relationships with socially liberal beliefs are monotonically positive. In contrast, some of the relationships with fiscally conservative beliefs are non-monotonic: Americans of highest ability are less fiscally conservative than those of high ability. The association between cognitive ability and a dimension of fiscal conservatism is reduced substantially when controlling for socio-economic position. |
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| Keywords: | Intelligence Cognitive ability United States Social liberalism Fiscal conservatism |
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