From intelligence to political ideology: Socioeconomic paths

Yoav Ganzach

doi:10.1016/j.paid.2020.110095

From intelligence to political ideology: Socioeconomic paths

Yoav Ganzach

Department of Economics and Business Administration

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We study the role of socioeconomic status as a mediator of the effect of cognitive ability on ideology based on two large representative database (n = 25,203 and n = 7668). Rather than treating socioeconomic status as an aggregate concept, we examine the different roles of its two components – income and education – in mediating the effect of cognitive ability on ideology. We find that the education-mediated effect of cognitive ability is on liberal ideology is positive whereas the income-mediated effect is negative. The implications of these results for the processes that shape political ideology are discussed.

Original language	English
Article number	110095
Journal	Personality and Individual Differences
Volume	164
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2020.110095
State	Published - 1 Oct 2020

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Education
Income
Intelligence
Political ideology
Socioeconomic status

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