Only in America: Cold Winters Theory, race, IQ and well-being

Pesta, Bryan J.; Poznanski, Peter J.

doi:10.1016/j.intell.2014.07.009

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“…The very old and vicious stereotypes of Black male anatomy reappeared in Lynn’s (2013) survey of penis size across many nations, employed to support a pseudo-evolutionary explanation of racial differences in crime and “social organization.” Natural selection by “cold winters” in Europe versus “easy living” in Africa was an explanation for alleged European intellectual superiority used by early 20th-century Nordicists. Revived by Rushton (1995), with the variation of placing Asians as slightly superior in IQ to Whites, this untenable view of the late Pleistocene was still employed by Pesta and Poznanski (2014) in the mainstream journal, Intelligence . These discredited assertions on brains, intelligence, morality, and evolution (e.g., see Brace, 2005; Fish, 2002; Graves, 2001; Lieberman, 2001; Nisbett, 2009; Peters, 1995; Sussman, 2014; Weizmann et al, 1990, for critiques) were refashioned and redeployed in new social contexts, with new intelligence tests, modern multivariate methods, brain scans, and revised conceptions of heredity.…”

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Why mainstream research will not end scientific racism in psychology

Winston

2020

Theory & Psychology

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Mainstream research on racial essentialization may be valuable in the fight against racism, as Held (2020) suggested. I argue that the production of scientific racism in the literature of psychology is unlikely to be affected by such research. Assertions by psychologists of Black people’s average inferiority in brain size, intelligence, and morality have persisted for over 100 years despite repeated, careful critiques. Recent presentations of these old and discredited claims have sidestepped the fundamental criticism that they rest on essentialized racial categories. The survival of scientific racism in mainstream psychology journals should be understood as a community project with its own Weltanschauung of “racial progress.”

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Why mainstream research will not end scientific racism in psychology

Winston

2020

Theory & Psychology

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“…The motivation for writing this commentary was to correct the record, including Winston's (2020) mischaracterization of Pesta and Poznanski's article. On Page 30, Winston noted: ...this untenable view [Cold Winters Theory] of the late Pleistocene was still employed by Pesta and Poznanski (2014) in the mainstream journal, Intelligence.…”

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Research Practices in Differential Psychology: Comments and a Correction to Winston

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2021

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In a recently-featured commentary, Winston [1] defined scientific racism as "the use of scientific concepts and data to create and justify ideas of an enduring, biologically based hierarchy" [1, p. 425]. Winston further argued that scientific racism persists because of the "social genealogy and history" of the research program, rather than because it is an open empirical question as to whether some inherited behavioral differences exist between ethnic and racial groups. Finally, Winston called out one of us (BJP) for exemplifying scientific racism in a paper concerning Cold Winter's Theory. Specifically, the article [2] tested whether Cold Winter's Theory could account for race differences in intelligence across the 50 U.S. states. Unfortunately, Winston mischaracterized the article's position on this matter. We therefore write here to correct the mischaracterization, and to illustrate that the study of race differences is part of a progressive research program on psychological differences.

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“…Higher IQ states are associated with Google searches related to food, reading, house preservation, snow, health, lawn and garden, babies, and games. Higher IQ states tend to be colder and many are located in the Northeastern United States (see Pesta & Poznanski, 2014); as such, Google searches related to snow make sense, as do searches regarding house preservation (e.g., furnace prices, basement insulation). Additionally, the remaining Google search-term composites are suggestive of the relative importance high-IQ states place on maintaining healthy lifestyles (e.g., calories burned running, low fat banana bread, playing outdoor games), starting a family (e.g., sleep sack, kids' books), and pursuing intellectual hobbies (e.g., books of 2010).…”

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Big data and the well-being nexus: Tracking Google search activity by state IQ

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Composite name Number of search terms Alpha reliability Search terms included Comments Food .99 How much turkey, tortellini, dry pasta, how to hard boil an egg, calories in pumpkin, Clif Bars, overnight french toast, turkey per person, cooking corn on the cob, panini recipes, fat banana, crock pot applesauce, summer salad, banana chocolate chip, low fat banana bread, baked french toast, make ahead, summer pasta, meatballs, summer drinks, free snacks, best apples Food, drinks, and cooking Reading .97 Books of 2010, year in review, kids book, Sandra Boynton, American Girl magazine, club books, club book Reading including reading for adults, children and a children's book author (Sandra Boynton) House preservation .99 Decking reviews, foundation wall, foundation walls, custom woodworking, furnace cost, furnace price, Timbertech decking, basement insulation, entryway storage, window prices, direct vent gas fireplace, bench with storage, basement window, furnace prices, wood cleaner, coat tree, coat hook, coat hooks, cordless blinds, radon level, radon test House preservation, house accessories (e.g., coat tree), and house safety (e.g., radon level) Snow .99 Snow shovels, snow shovel, amount of snow, aggressive alpine skiing, car snow, Sears snow blowers, snow blowers, electric snow blower, used snow plows, how much snow, blowers, H727, Optimo H727, Hankook Optimo H727 Quantities of snow, snow removal (e.g., snow shovels), driving in snow, automobile tires for snow (e.g., H727) Healthy .93 Going off the pill, hip flexor, calories burned running Contraception, anatomy related to exercise (e.g., hip flexor), calorie burning Lawn and garden .97 Mow lawn, lamium, barberry, spring lawn, asters, liatris Lawn, garden plants Babies .96 Sleep sacks, sleep sack, most popular names, crib safety, safety gate, halo sleep Baby-related products and popular names Games .90 Cricket rules, Stratego, ladder ball Games Asanti rims .97 Asanti wheels, Asanti, Asanti.rims Asanti brand automobile wheels Beauty .96 Eyeshadow tutorial, eyeshadow, cut hair, MAC makeup, RetinA cream, braces before and after Make-up, hair, braces Fighting .96 School fights, high school fights, real fight, fights videos Fighting, school fights Job seeking .98 Clerk job description, clerk job, become a pharmacist, to become a pharmacist, become a registered nurse, resume for a job, jobs application, ASVAB for dummies, clerk duties, objective for resume, join the airforce, learn how to type, free fax cover, cover sheet, how to write an essay Post-print standardized by MSL Academic Endeavors, the imprint of the

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Only in America: Cold Winters Theory, race, IQ and well-being

Cited by 20 publications

References 18 publications

Why mainstream research will not end scientific racism in psychology

Why mainstream research will not end scientific racism in psychology

Research Practices in Differential Psychology: Comments and a Correction to Winston

Big data and the well-being nexus: Tracking Google search activity by state IQ

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