Jan te Nijenhuis | |
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| Education | Groningen University,Free University of Amsterdam |
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| Fields | Psychology |
| Institutions | University of Amsterdam |
| Thesis | Comparability of test scores for immigrants and majority group members in the Netherlands (1997) |
Jan te Nijenhuis is a Dutch psychologist. He is a lecturer of psychology at theUniversity of Amsterdam, known for his research onhuman intelligence.[1][2] He studied atGroningen University and theFree University of Amsterdam.
His publications on the intelligence ofimmigrants have provoked a lot of criticism and controversy in theNetherlands.[3][4]
He has controversially published several papers in theMankind Quarterly which is widely regarded as aracist pseudoscience journal and has attended theLondon Conference on Intelligence.[5][6]
In June 2019, te Nijenhuis spoke at a meeting of the JFVD, the youth association of thefar-rightFvD party.[7]
In addition to the usual professional publications, the psychologist also publishes in controversial publications such asMankind Quarterly – described by the American human rights organizationSouthern Poverty Law Center as 'the racist pseudo-scholarly Mankind Quarterly' – in which a comeback of eugenics is openly advocated. His papers have titles such as: “Why Do Northeast Asians Win So Few Nobel Prizes?”, “Does cultural background influence the intellectual performance of children from immigrant groups?”, “Group differences in mean intelligence for Dutch and third world immigrants”, “Spearman's hypothesis tested on European Jews vs non-Jewish Whites and vs Oriental Jews: Two meta-analyses”, “Solving the puzzle of why Finns have the highest IQ, but one of the lowest number of Nobel prizes in Europe”, “Spearman's hypothesis tested on Black adults: A meta-analysis”, “Spearman's hypothesis not supported? Three meta-analyses of Black and White prisoners, Northeast Asians, and Arabs and Jews”.
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