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Intelligence, Democracy, and International Environmental Commitment
Environmental Research. 2016. Vol. 147. P. 82–88.
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This paper investigates the determinants of nations' commitment to environmental protection at the international level by focusing on the role of national intelligence and the level of democracy. The national intelligence is measured by nation's IQ scores. The findings based on a sample of 152 nations provide strong evidence that intelligence has statistically significant impact on ratification of international environmental agreements, and the countries with IQ 10-points above global average are 23% more likely to sign multilateral environmental agreements than others. The findings also demonstrate that it is the combination of high-level of intelligence of nations and democracy, that likely result in international environmental commitments.
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Dvoinina V. K., Dvoinin A., Natural Systems of Mind 2026 Vol. 6 No. 3 P. 18–38
Background and research problem. The prevalence of epistemically unwarranted beliefs makes it critically important to study human cognitive capacities to resist indoctrination by pseudoscientific, conspiracist, and paranormal doctrines. The research problem addressed the question of whether cognitive abilities and rationality protect against susceptibility to epistemically unwarranted beliefs. Objective. To present a theoretical analysis of contemporary ...
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Titkov A. S., Социологическое обозрение 2021 Т. 20 № 1 С. 262–289
The article continues the discussion of Grigory Yudin’s book 'Public Opinion'. The review considers Yudin’s arguments on the “plebiscitarian bias” in opinion-poll technology, on the linkages between opinion-polls, Rousseauist tradition and the “plebiscitarian model”, and on Gallup’s, Schumpeter’s, and Weber’s contributions to plebiscitarism. In the context of the proposed conceptual model, controversial issues in the interpretation of Weber’s and ...
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Medushevsky A. N., Liberal.ru 2026
The Liberal Mission Foundation continues to introduce readers to new concepts of democracy and relevant publications. This discussion focuses on the challenges facing democracy in the era of globalization, as addressed in two recent books: *The Backsliders: Why Leaders Undermine Their Own Democracies* by S.C. Stokes (2025) and *Critical Theories and the Postsocialist Challenge: Race, ...
Added: August 26, 2026
Kolachev N., Kovaleva G., Behavior Genetics 2026 Vol. 56 No. 4 P. 153–168
Functional literacy—the ability to apply reading, mathematical, and scientific knowledge in authentic contexts as operationalized by the PISA framework—is a key predictor of educational attainment, labour-market outcomes, and economic growth. Despite extensive behavioral-genetic research on cognitive ability, the heritability of competency-based literacy measures remains largely unexamined, particularly outside Western populations. The present study addresses this ...
Added: May 26, 2026
Kolachev N., Kovaleva G., Educational Research and Evaluation 2026 P. 1–24
This study investigates the psychometric structure and school-level associations between cognitive abilities of teachers and students. Using a cross-sectional quantitative design, we administered a PISA-based cognitive assessment tool measuring reading, mathematics, science literacy, and global competence to 5,391 eighth-grade students and 2,385 teachers from 84 schools in a Russian region. Bifactor modeling, measurement invariance testing, ...
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Balashov D., Антиномии 2026 Т. 26 № 1 С. 27–48
The movement of effective altruism, which emerged at the beginning of the 21st century, represents a new form of utilitarian philosophy that has had a significant impact on Anglo-American philosophical thought in the 19th and 20th centuries. A key feature of effective altruism is its emphasis on practicality. The movement positions itself as an entity ...
Added: May 13, 2026
Di Puppo L., Roy Chowdhury A., Globalizations 2026 Vol. 23 No. 1 P. 1–9
In this special issue, we bring together the post-colonial and post-socialist conditions of the post-Soviet space and the Indian subcontinent through the study of human–nature relationships. Not only are these two regions entangled through the Eurasian geography, but they also both represent hybrid modernization trajectories characterized by varying socio-political responses to Western modernity and the ...
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Dregulo A., Environmental Science and Pollution Research 2026 Vol. 33 No. 8 P. 3252–3265
The present study focuses on greenhouse gas emissions from wastewater treatment and sewage sludge disposal at landfill. Traces of ammonium, dihydrosulfide, phenol, formaldehyde, various hydrocarbons, and mercaptans have been identified. The dynamics of these gases are especially intense during the purification process from grids to aerotanks. Methane concentrations fluctuated more than sixfold in the wastewater ...
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Royce D. P., Mezhdunarodnye Protsessy 2026 Vol. 23 No. 3 P. 41–63
Although studies have already found Freedom House’s* Freedom in the World rankings to be geopolitically biased, the index remains in use by academia (including Russian academia) with surprising frequency. This article provides detailed and quantitative evidence that Freedom House* is essentially part of the US Government and US political establishment, and is thus in principle liable ...
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Shvidenko A., Ciais P., Patra P. et al., Global Biogeochemical Cycles 2025 Vol. 39 No. 10 Article e2025GB008540
A system reanalysis of the current greenhouse gases budget of terrestrial ecosystems in russia / A. Shvidenko, P. Ciais, P. K. Patra et al. // Global Biogeochemical Cycles. — 2025. — Vol. 39, no. 10. — P. e2025GB008540. This study synthesizes the budgets of three greenhouse gases (GHG, namely CO2, CH4, N2O) forRussia over two decades (2000–2009 and 2010–2019) using bottom‐up and top‐down approaches, as part ...
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Маркашова Е. И., Badina D., Skvortsov A., Национальный психологический журнал 2025 Т. 20 № 4 С. 60–68
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The problem of the relationship between thinking and speech is fundamental for psychological science: it underlies
the understanding of formation and functioning of human consciousness, marked by its speech form. The study of aphasia is one
of the promising areas of research into the relationship between these functions, which also has important practical significance
in the field of ...
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Azyrkin P., Мир психологии. Научно-методический журнал 2025 № 3 С. 211–232
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Логвиненко Т. И., Kanonire T., Орел Е. А. et al., Вестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Серия: Психология и педагогика 2024 Т. 21 № 2 С. 657–682
The article is focused on the problem of intelligence measurement, with an emphasis on the ethical aspects of developing and using tests. The history of intelligence measurement provides a variety of examples, problematic from an ethical point of view, which have repeatedly led to negative consequences for both individuals and entire communities. The purpose of ...
Added: September 8, 2025
Azyrkin P., Отечественная и зарубежная педагогика 2025 Т. 1 № 4(107) С. 178–191
The article is focused on the study of the phenomenon of bullying in institutions of additional education for children. The aim of the study was to identify the prevalence and specifics of bullying in extracurricular activities, as well as the factors contributing to victimization. Within the framework of the study, 319 teachers of additional education ...
Added: August 28, 2025
Kornilova T. V., Chumakova M., Maksarova L. B., Psychology in Russia: State of the Art 2025 Vol. 18 No. 1 P. 60–82
Background. This study is based on the idea of unity between affect and intelligence. It explores how different types of intelligence (fluid, verbal, self-assessed, and emotional) contribute to emotional creativity and implicit theories of creativity and emotion.
Objective. To identify the contributions of various types of intelligence to emotional creativity and the implicit theories of creativity and ...
Added: August 18, 2025
Jonathan L. Calof, Futures 2025 Vol. 173 Article 103653
For several years, foresight and competitive intelligence (CI) professionals have worked together, learning from each other and adopting each other's approaches. For example, in 2024 an affiliation agreement was signed between a CI and a foresight association. This article examines this professional development and looks at the extent to which academia has done the same. ...
Added: July 18, 2025
Dushkova D., Konstantinova A., Matasov V. et al., AMBIO: A Journal of the Human Environment 2025 No. 54 P. 577–602
Research on urban ecosystem services (ES) covers many regions globally, yet significant gaps remain in several areas, including Russia. Furthermore, the number of publications on Russian ES is still very low, and most of them focus on ES assessment on the national level which results in an incomplete understanding of ES provision in Russian cities. ...
Added: May 29, 2025