Learning outside the laboratory: Ability and non-ability influences on acquiring political knowledge |
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| Authors: | David Z Hambrick Elizabeth J Meinz Jeffrey E Pink Jonathan C Pettibone Frederick L Oswald |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Psychiatry, University of Oviedo, Spain;2. Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red, Área de Salud Mental (CIBERSAM), Spain;3. Institut de Neuropsiquiatria i Adiccions, Parc de Salut Mar, Barcelona, Spain;4. Fundació IMIM, Barcelona, Spain;5. Barcelona Clinic Schizophrenia Unit, Neuroscience Institute, Hospital Clinic of Barcelona, Spain;6. Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Unit, Neuroscience Institute, Hospital Clinic of Barcelona, Spain;7. Institut d''Investigacions Biomediques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain;8. Department of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychobiology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain;9. Department of Psychiatry, Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom;10. Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust, United Kingdom |
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| Abstract: | The purpose of this study was to identify sources of individual differences in knowledge acquired under natural conditions. Through its direct influence on background knowledge, crystallized intelligence (Gc) had a major impact on political knowledge, acquired over a period of more than 2 months, but there were independent influences of personality and interest factors, via exposure to political information through activities like reading the newspaper. We also found sex differences in political knowledge, favoring males, and these differences could not be explained in terms of any of the predictor variables we modeled. We discuss theoretical and practical implications of the results. |
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