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A study just published in the Personality and Social Psychology Review concludes that racism is not only more prevalent in Christian communities than in the general population, its incidence rises in correlation to a religious group’s dogmatism. The Center For Inquiry breaks it down: The February issue of Personality and Social Psychology Review has published a meta-analysis of 55 independent …

A study from the London School of Economics and Political Science has concluded that folks who identity themselves as liberals and atheists tend to have a slightly higher IQ than the general population. A higher IQ is also predictive of “sexual exclusivity” among men, but not women. The IQ differences, while statistically significant, are not stunning — on the order …