{"id":10,"date":"2013-01-23T06:07:31","date_gmt":"2013-01-23T06:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/edwarddutton.wordpress.com\/?page_id=1"},"modified":"2026-02-12T21:54:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T21:54:00","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/edwarddutton.com\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, hello, hello! I like researching &#8216;controversial&#8217; topics. If someone insists that a certain area is out of bounds and you\u2019re \u2018immoral\u2019 for even contemplating it, then that is where new discoveries are going to lie.<\/p>\r\n<p>I originally read Theology at Durham University, graduating in 2002. There I focused on Religious Studies under the Rev&#8217;d Prof. Douglas Davies, editing his book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/Anthropology-and-Theology\/Davies\/p\/book\/9781859735374\"><em>Anthropology and Theology<\/em><\/a>. I then did a PhD in Religious Studies, focusing on Christian fundamentalism, at Aberdeen University under Rabbi Prof. Seth Kunin (and briefly, partially, under Prof. Steve Bruce), finishing in 2005.<\/p>\r\n<p>I was made <a href=\"https:\/\/edwarddutton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/docentcert.pdf\">Docent<\/a> of the Anthropology of Religion and Finnish Culture at Oulu University in Finland \u2013 I\u2019m based in Oulu \u2013 in 2011. The word \u201cDocent\u201d is translated as \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/latin.stackexchange.com\/questions\/5002\/translating-the-finnish-adjunct-professor-or-docent\">habilitation<\/a>,\u201d \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Academic_ranks_in_Finland#:~:text=The%20alternative%20translation%20for%20docent,%2Dtrack%20rather%20than%20permanent).\">Adjunct Professor<\/a>\u201d or \u201cAdjunct <a href=\"https:\/\/en.pons.com\/translate\/polish-english\/docent\">Reader<\/a>.\u201d In early 2012, I was Visiting Lecturer in the Anthropology of Religion at Riga Stradins University in Latvia and I did a guest lecture on the subject at Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas, Lithuania.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>However, I moved into evolutionary psychology, human biological differences and intelligence in late 2012 and have never looked back. Indeed, the choice between postmodern anthropology and evolutionary anthropology was termed &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/40926189?seq=1\">Dutton&#8217;s Dilemma<\/a>&#8221; in the <em>Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>From 2012, I contributed to quantitative studies with the Ulster Institute for Social Research under Prof. Richard Lynn and others, publishing in such journals as <em>Intelligence, Personality and Individual Differences <\/em>and <em>Journal of Biosocial Science<\/em>.<\/p>\r\n<p>In 2015, I was guest researcher in the Psychology Department at Ume\u00e5 University in Sweden under Prof Guy Madison. From 2016, I have been academic consultant to a research group in the Special Education Department at King Saud University in Riyadh led by Prof. Salaheldin Bakhiet. In that year, I got my first taste of cancelation when Oulu University found me guilty of <a href=\"https:\/\/edwarddutton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Foreword.pdf\">misconduct<\/a> because of a misunderstanding on the part of my elderly boss and co-author Richard Lynn, Having both been smeared as &#8216;far right&#8217; in the Finnish press, it seems obvious that anybody else would have been treated fairly by the increasingly Woke Finnish academia. For 2019, I served as editor of <em>Mankind Quarterly,\u00a0<\/em>a journal that specialises in evolutionary psychology. In early 2020, Oulu University <a href=\"https:\/\/www.suomenuutiset.fi\/antropologi-blm-mielenosoituksista-on-tullut-nuorille-suomalaisille-naisille-uskonnon-korvike\/\">memory-holed me<\/a> from their list of docents published on their website, seemingly due to my book <em>The Silent Rape Epidemic: How the Finns Were Groomed to Love Their Abusers.<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>In September 2020, on the strength of my published research in the field and experience, I was <a href=\"https:\/\/edwarddutton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/asbiroprof.pdf\">appointed<\/a> Professor of Evolutionary Psychology of Business at<a href=\"https:\/\/edwarddutton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/List-of-recognised-non-public-HEIs-1.pdf\"> Asbiro University<\/a> in \u0141\u00f3d\u017a, Poland. This private university of applied science, to which I am thus affiliated, focuses on business and management and I contribute to the evolutionary psychology dimensions of this in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.asbiro.pl\/ludzie\/profil\/?id=886053\">occasional capacity<\/a>. I was, in 2021, appointed<a href=\"https:\/\/edwarddutton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/This-is-to-the-participation-HABAB4444.pdf\"> research associate<\/a> in the Deanship of Scientific Research at Tabuk University in Saudi Arabia. In 2023, I was made Honorary Professor in the Institute of Psychology at the Russian Academy of Sciences. My proof that inter-cultural marriages follow the predicted hypergamy patterns of sexual selection has been termed &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/32697057\/\">Dutton&#8217;s Rule<\/a>.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>I cannot help researching supposedly \u2018controversial\u2019 areas, because only these push the boundaries of knowledge. As such I am rather proud that Woke campaign group &#8220;Hope Not Hate&#8221; has called me a &#8220;pseudo-scientific race scientist&#8221; with &#8220;extreme and offensive opinions.&#8221; That such ideologues see you in this way, and find your arguments &#8220;offensive&#8221; to their dogmas, is proof that you really are exploring important areas of research. In pursuit of such research, I am happy to discuss ideas with anyone, regardless of their politics. Under the current anti-intellectual dispensation, this is not possible within Western universities, meaning I rely on funding both for my research and for my YouTube channel <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCMRs0Ml8RF0cWVAOeQeBxTw\">The Jolly Heretic<\/a>,<\/em> where you can also find interviews with me. Due to YouTube&#8217;s anti-Freedom-of-Expression policy, the censored and generally more forthright videos can be seen exclusively on my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jollyheretic.com\/\">substack<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n<p><strong>If you would like to help so that more of this boat-rocking yet empirically accurate research can be published, please do.<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p>Also, please feel free to contact me at e.c.dutton@dunelm.org.uk. And follow me on Twitter @jollyheretic.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, hello, hello! I like researching &#8216;controversial&#8217; topics. If someone insists that a certain area is out of bounds and you\u2019re \u2018immoral\u2019 for even contemplating it, then that is where new discoveries are going to lie. 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