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Cognitive ability and voting ‘leave’ on Brexit
In a new study published in the journal PLoS ONE on November 22, a pair of researchers from the University of Bath in the UK have reported that “higher cognitive ability” is “linked to higher chance of having voted against Brexit” in the June … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis, Scicomm, Science
Tagged Brexit, cognitive ability, numerical reasoning, Understanding Society survey, University of Bath, verbal fluency, word recall
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Cognitive flexibility and nationalism 2.0
Remember that paper about cognitive flexibility and nationalism? The one that said people who are more nationalistic in their politics tend to have lower cognitive flexibility? I’d blogged about it here. I hadn’t read the study’s paper, published in the Proceedings of the … Continue reading
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Tagged behavioural psychology, Brexit, causation, cognitive flexibility, correlation, nationalism, neuroscience, Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences, right-wing fundamentalism, The Guardian
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