Jan te Nijenhuis is a Dutch psychologist. He is a lecturer of psychology at the

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, known for his research on

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. He studied at

Groningen University The University of Groningen (abbreviated as UG; , abbreviated as RUG) is a public research university of more than 30,000 students in the city of Groningen, Netherlands. Founded in 1614, the university is the second oldest in the country (after ...

and the Free University of Amsterdam. His publications on the intelligence of

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have provoked a lot of criticism and controversy in the

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. He has controversially published several papers in the ''

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'' which is widely regarded as a

racist Racism is the belief that groups of humans possess different behavioral traits corresponding to inherited attributes and can be divided based on the superiority of one Race (human categorization), race or ethnicity over another. It may also me ...

pseudoscience journal and has attended the London Conference on Intelligence. In June 2019, te Nijenhuis spoke at a meeting of the JFVD, the youth association of the

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FvD party.

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