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'''Kevin B. MacDonald''', (born [[January 24]], [[1944]]) is a professor of [[psychology]] at [[California State University, Long Beach]], best known for claiming to use [[evolutionary psychology]] to inform his study of [[Judaism]]. MacDonald's most controversial idea is that a suite of Jewish psychological traits, including higher-than-average verbal intelligence and [[ethnocentricism]], enhances the ability of [[Jew]]s to out-compete non-Jews for resources while undermining the power and self-confidence of the white majority in Europe and America. Some leading scholars have rejected MacDonald's work as contradicting "basic principles of contemporary evolutionary psychology" and failing "basic tests of scientific credibility," though otherit scholarshas findfound meritan inaudience hisamong worksome conservatives. SomeThere are [[white nationalistssupremacist]]s who support MacDonald because of his opinions about Jews, but MacDonald denies having any affiliation or contact with suchextremist groups.

==Early years==

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MacDonald is best known for his trilogy that analyzesclaims to analyze [[Judaism]] and [[Secular Jewish culture|Jewish culture]] from the perspective of [[Evolutionary psychology|Evolutionary Psychology]], comprising ''A People That Shall Dwell Alone'' ([[1994]]), ''Separation and Its Discontents'' ([[1998]]), and ''The Culture of Critique'' ([[1998]]). He proposes that Judaism is a [[Group selection|group evolutionary strategy]] to enhance the ability of [[Jew]]s to out-compete non-Jews for resources. Using the term ''Jewish ethnocentrism'', he argues that Judaism fosters in Jews a series of marked genetic traits, including above-average verbal intelligence and a strong tendency toward collectivist behavior.

===Jewish role in facilitating mass immigration===

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MacDonald has been accused of [[anti-Semitism]] by other scholars and has developed an extensive following among [[white supremacist]]s and [[neo-Nazi]]s. In October 2004 he accepted a literary prize from ''[[The Occidental Quarterly]]'', using the award ceremony as an occasion to argue for the need for a "white ethnostate" to maintain high racial birthrates.

Journalist Mark Potok of the [[Southern Poverty Law Center]], a controversial [[civil rights]] advocacy and [[anti-racism]] organization, has said of MacDonald that "he put the anti-Semitism under the guise of scholarly work... Kevin MacDonald’s work is nothing but gussied-up anti-Semitism. At base it says that Jews are out to get us through their agenda ... His work is bandied about by just about every neo-Nazi group in America.” [http://www.csulb.edu/~d49er/archives/2004/spring/news/volLIVno119-civil.shtml]

World-famous [[Harvard]] psychology professor [[Steven Pinker]] has written of the ability of MacDonald's theses to pass the threshold of attention-worthiness and/or peer-approval: