Bright children become enlightened adults.

@article{citeulike:2717279, abstract = {We examined the prospective association between general intelligence (g) at age 10 and liberal and antitraditional social attitudes at age 30 in a large (N= 7,070), representative sample of the British population born in 1970. Statistical analyses identified a general latent trait underlying attitudes that are antiracist, pro-working women, socially liberal, and trusting in the democratic political system. There was a strong association between higher g at age 10 and more liberal and antitraditional attitudes at age 30; this association was mediated partly via educational qualifications, but not at all via occupational social class. Very similar results were obtained for men and women. People in less professional occupations-and whose parents had been in less professional occupations-were less trusting of the democratic political system. This study confirms social attitudes as a major, novel field of adult human activity that is related to childhood intelligence differences.}, address = {Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, UK. i.deary@ed.ac.uk}, author = {Deary, I. J. and Batty, G. D. and Gale, C. R. }, citeulike-article-id = {2717279}, doi = {10.1111/j.1467-9280.2008.02036.x}, issn = {0956-7976}, journal = {Psychological science : a journal of the American Psychological Society / APS}, keywords = {ability, cognitive, longitudinal}, month = {January}, number = {1}, pages = {1--6}, posted-at = {2008-04-25 13:07:51}, priority = {0}, title = {Bright children become enlightened adults.}, url = {http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1467-9280.2008.02036.x}, volume = {19}, year = {2008} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2717279 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2717279 TI - Bright children become enlightened adults. JF - Psychological science : a journal of the American Psychological Society / APS VL - 19 IS - 1 SP - 1 EP - 6 AD - Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, UK. i.deary@ed.ac.uk SN - 0956-7976 N2 - We examined the prospective association between general intelligence (g) at age 10 and liberal and antitraditional social attitudes at age 30 in a large (N= 7,070), representative sample of the British population born in 1970. Statistical analyses identified a general latent trait underlying attitudes that are antiracist, pro-working women, socially liberal, and trusting in the democratic political system. There was a strong association between higher g at age 10 and more liberal and antitraditional attitudes at age 30; this association was mediated partly via educational qualifications, but not at all via occupational social class. Very similar results were obtained for men and women. People in less professional occupations-and whose parents had been in less professional occupations-were less trusting of the democratic political system. This study confirms social attitudes as a major, novel field of adult human activity that is related to childhood intelligence differences. KW - ability KW - cognitive KW - longitudinal AU - Deary, IJ AU - Batty, GD AU - Gale, CR PY - 2008/01// UR - http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1467-9280.2008.02036.x ER -