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Thomas, Reuben J.; McFarland, Daniel A. – Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE), 2010
Adolescent voluntary associations are particularly well positioned in the life course to encourage voting as youth become full citizens. Extracurriculars socialize students into voting by habituating them to civic engagement and by connecting them to politically engaged cultures. We establish this argument by testing the effects of high school…
Descriptors: Voting, Ideology, Young Adults, Adolescents
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Kanazawa, Satoshi – Social Psychology Quarterly, 2010
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…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Political Attitudes, Social Sciences, Sexuality