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DCG posted: "Men who are physically strong are more likely to have right
wing political views DailyMail: Men who are physically strong are more
likely to take a right wing political stance, while weaker men are inclined
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<http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/author/dcgere/> Left wing men are
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who are physically strong are more likely to have right wing political views
DailyMail<http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2325414/Men-physically-strong-likely-right-wing-political-views.html>:
*Men who are physically strong are more likely to take a right wing
political stance, while weaker men are inclined to support the welfare
state*, according to a new study.
Researchers discovered political motivations may have evolutionary links to
physical strength. *Men's upper-body strength predicts their political
opinions on economic redistribution*, according to the research.
The principal investigators - psychological scientists Michael Bang
Petersen, of Aarhus University in Denmark, and Daniel Sznycer, of the
University of California in the U.S., believe that the link may reflect
psychological traits that evolved in response to our early
ancestral environments and continue to influence behaviour today.
Professor Petersen said: ‘While many think of politics as a modern
phenomenon, it has - in a sense - always been with our species.’ In the
days of our early ancestors, decisions about the distribution of resources
were not made in courthouses or legislative offices, but through shows of
strength.
With this in mind, Professor Petersen and Professor Sznycer *hypothesised
that upper-body strength - a proxy for the ability to physically defend or
acquire resources - would predict men's opinions about the redistribution
of wealth*.
The researchers collected data on bicep size, socio-economic status, and
support for economic redistribution from hundreds of people in the United
States, Argentina and Denmark.
In line with their hypotheses, the data *revealed that wealthy men with
high upper-body strength were less likely to support redistribution, while
less wealthy men of the same strength were more likely to support it*.
Professor Petersen said: ‘Despite the fact that the United States, Denmark
and Argentina have very different welfare systems, we still see that - at
the psychological level - individuals reason about welfare redistribution
in the same way.
‘In all three countries, *physically strong males consistently pursue the
self-interested position on redistribution*.’ Men with low upper-body
strength, on the other hand, were less likely to support their own
self-interest. Wealthy men of this group showed less resistance to
redistribution, while poor men showed less support.
Professor Petersen said: ‘*Our results demonstrate that physically weak
males are more reluctant than physically strong males to assert their
self-interest* - just as if disputes over national policies were a matter
of direct physical confrontation among small numbers of individuals,
rather than abstract electoral dynamics among millions.’
However, the researchers found no link between upper-body strength and
redistribution opinions among women. Professor Petersen argued that this
is likely due to the fact that, over the course of evolutionary history,
women had less to gain, and also more to lose, from engaging in direct
physical aggression.
He said, together, the results indicate that an evolutionary perspective
may help to illuminate political motivations, at least those of men.
Professor Petersen added: ‘Many previous studies have shown that people's
political views cannot be predicted by standard economic models.
‘This is among the first studies to show that political views may be
rational in another sense, in that *they're designed by natural selection
to function in the conditions recurrent over human evolutionary history*.’
The findings were published in the journal Psychological Science.
I don't know if this is generally true yet found this article kind of
interesting. Who knew, left wing liberal men support the welfare state?
Exactly what Obama is turning America into.
DCG
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