Race Differences in Intelligence

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ACADEMIC ARTICLES

Russell Warne (2021). Between-Group Differences in Intelligence Have a Partly Genetic Cause.

Rindermann et al. (2020). Survey of Expert Opinion on Race and Intelligence.  

Winegard et al. (2020). Dodging Darwin: Race, Evolution, and the Hereditarian Hypothesis.

Rushton and Jensen (2005). Thirty Years of Research on Race Differences in Cognitive Ability. 

POPULAR ESSAYS and PODCASTS

Winegard and Winegard (2017). A Tale of Two Bell Curves. 

Sam Harris Interviews Charles Murray (2017). Forbidden Knowledge. 

BOOKS

Russell Warne (2020). In the Know: Debunking 35 Myths About Intelligence (section 6 on race and IQ)

Neven Sesardic (2005). Making Sense of Heritability (chapter 4 on race and IQ)

Charles Murray and Richard Hernnstein (1994). The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life. 

RACE and PERSONALITY

Many believe there are innate race differences in personality traits, but since there is less research on this topic than race and IQ, the evidence is less conclusive. Many researchers who find personality differences have strong incentives -- given the political climate in modern universities -- to assign a purely environmental cause to them, whether or not they believe this is true. It is considered taboo to claim, for example, that Europeans are more individualistic and less clannish than Africans, or that Europeans have higher levels of affective empathy than Australian Aborigines largely due to genetic differences. The following are some provocative papers on racial differences in personality:

Peter Frost (2020). The Large Society Problem in Northwest Europe and East Asia.

Jonathan Schulz et al. (2019). The Church, Intensive Kinship, and Global Psychological Variation.

Frost and Harpending (2016). Western Europe, State Formation, and Genetic Pacification.  

Joan Barcelo (2016). National Personality Traits and Regime Type. 

Wang et al. (2016). How Time Preferences Differ: Evidence from 53 Countries.

Juri Allik (2012). National Differences in Personality.

Sarah Pederson et al. (2012). Racial Differences in the Development of Impulsivity and Sensation Seeking. 

Peter Frost (2010). The Roman State and Genetic Pacification.