The Danish political twin study: political traits in Danish twins and the general population [0.03%]
丹麦双胞胎政治研究：关于丹麦双胞胎和普通人群的政治特征
Robert Klemmensen,Sara B Hobolt,Peter T Dinesen et al.
Robert Klemmensen et al.
We compare a recent Danish twin survey on political attitudes and behaviors to a nationally representative survey covering similar topics. We find very similar means and variances for most of our constructed scales of political attitudes an...
Nature, nurture, and ethnocentrism in the Minnesota twin study [0.03%]
明尼苏达双生子研究中的种族中心主义效应：遗传和环境的作用大小不容忽视
Byron D&#x;Andra Orey,Hyung Park
Byron D&#x;Andra Orey
The preponderance of research on the study of ethnocentrism has primarily attributed such attitudes to learned behavior. The research here advances the argument that both socialization and genetic inheritance contribute to the development o...
Allan C Stam,Alexander Von Hagen-Jamar,Alton B H Worthington
Allan C Stam
This paper examines the association between individuals' beliefs that the world is a dangerous place and their support for a variety of national security policies. We find that the source of the covariance between perceived danger and suppo...
Skyler J Cranmer,Christopher T Dawes
Skyler J Cranmer
Attitudes towards foreign policy have typically been explained by ideological and demographic factors. We approach this study from a different perspective and ex amine the extent to which foreign policy preferences correspond to genetic var...
Integrating classical and contemporary explanations of political participation [0.03%]
古典理论与当代理论视野下的政治参与整合研究
Brad Verhulst
Brad Verhulst
Traditional theories of political participation have emphasized its social and normative components; however, recent evidence suggests that political participation has a strong additive genetic component. Accordingly, it is necessary to ree...
Kevin Arceneaux,Martine Johnson,Hermine H Maes
Kevin Arceneaux
Political sophistication is a concept that encompasses political reasoning, the coherence of people's issue attitudes, and their knowledge of political processes. To what extent is political sophistication affected by genes and environments...
The genetic origins of the relationship between psychological traits and social trust [0.03%]
心理特征与社会信任关系的遗传起源研究
Sven Oskarsson,Christopher Dawes,Magnus Johannesson et al.
Sven Oskarsson et al.
Recent studies have shown that trusting attitudes and behavior are biologically influenced. Focusing on the classic trust game, it has been demonstrated that oxytocin increases trust and that humans are endowed with genetic variation that i...
Heritability in political interest and efficacy across cultures: Denmark and the United States [0.03%]
中美丹三国调查显示政治兴趣与效能的部分天性论依据
Robert Klemmensen,Peter K Hatemi,Sara B Hobolt et al.
Robert Klemmensen et al.
Interest in politics is important for a host of political behaviors and beliefs. Yet little is known about where political interest comes from. Most studies exploring the source of political interest focus on parental influences, economic s...
Do heritability estimates of political phenotypes suffer from an equal environment assumption violation? Evidence from an empirical study [0.03%]
政治表型的遗传率估计是否遭受了同等环境假设违规的损害？一项实证研究的结果
Levente Littvay
Levente Littvay
Using data from the Minnesota Twins Political Survey, this paper tests for the presence of unequal environments (EEA) by zygosity in political attitudes. Equal environment measures used include shared bedroom, friends, classes, and dressing...
The intersection of behavioral genetics and political science: introduction to the special issue [0.03%]
行为遗传学和政治学的交叉点——特刊简介
Peter K Hatemi
Peter K Hatemi
The collection of papers in this special edition of Twin Research and Human Genetics represents a major land-mark at the intersection of behavioral genetics and political science. This issue is the fruit of 20 political scientists attending...