Summary: Analyzing the data of political opinions of 12,000 twins in the United States and Australia discovered that identical twins are more likely to agree on political issues than were fraternal twins. It turned out that the important nature as much as the culture when it comes to political behavior.

Genetic not the only important thing, in fact every 5 years or so people pass from one political camp to another.

Full text: Most people think that we come to the personal political views with an accurate reasoning and an unbiased examination of the evidence at our disposal.
Not according to John Alford of Rice University studies, which cover political behavior and biology of politics, the biological basis of political and social human behavior.
Alford has shown that identical twins, who share all the same genes, are more likely to share political views than fraternal twins, who share only about 50 percent of their genes.
Advertising message Alford, who has studied this topic for many years, he and his team analyzed data from political opinions of 12,000 twins in the United States and incorporated them with the results of twins in Australia.
Alford found that identical twins are more likely to agree on political issues than were fraternal twins.
On the question of the payment of taxes, for example, an astounding four-fifths of identical twins shared the same opinion, while only two-thirds of fraternal twins agreed.
Subsequent studies made allUniversit of California have shown that there are real biological differences in how brains process information between people with different political views.
Scientists even believe they have isolated a gene that makes people more likely to vote, the gene called MAOA.
In fact, according to scientist James Fowler dellUniversit California, our genes can affect not only our political point of view, but also our drive to vote.
In a study published in the Journal of Politics, Fowler found that people with a particular version of the MAOA gene had 1.3 times more likely to vote than those with a different version.
In addition, members of religious groups bearers of a particular version of another gene called 5HTT had a 60% probability to vote in more than members of religious groups with a different version of the gene.
So it seems that the genetic predestination can largely determine behavior in politics.
The same James Fowler dellUniversit of California, San Diego, so we expressed on the results of these research studies:
What we have discovered that the important nature as much as the culture when it comes to political behavior.
John Alford says similarly, as a result of his studies, that being right or left does not depend on our will, but by biological factors.
It seems that the culture, the environment, family influences, personal opinions, are not sufficient by themselves to trigger the ideological and political choice of a subject.
Advertising message Environmental influences such as the education, the study suggests, play a more central role nellaffiliazione party as a Democrat or Republican, just as in the choice of a sports team.
Geneticists who study behavior and personality have known for 30 years that genes play an important role in the instinctive emotional responses of people to certain problems, their social temperament.
Not that opinions on specific issues are written into the DNA of a person.
Rather, the genes stimulate people to respond cautiously or openly to the customs of a social group.
Only recently have researchers begun to examine how these predispositions, combined with childhood and later life experiences, shape behavior and the political orientation.
The political trends can be regarded as being left-handed or right-handed.
You were born more natural feeling yourself using a hand or laltra, there does not mean you can not change: for many years the lefties were taught to be the right, but not easy.
John Alford continues releasing this statement:
What we found probably the most'll want us to a persuasive television ad to change someone's mind about a particular political position or attitude, individual genes for behaviors do not exist and no one denies that humans have the ability to take action against the predispositions genetic, but predictably dissimilar correlations of social and political attitudes among people with greater and less shared genotypes suggest that behaviors are often shaped by forces of which the person himself is not consciously aware.
John Alford believes that scientists are too quick in wanting to reject the gene and its influence in the ideological and political field; rather, he believes that genetics should be studied and taught together with socio-environmental influences.
It has been shown that genetics plays a role in a myriad of different human interactions why should we exclude political beliefs and attitudes?
Unaltro study that touches this thought that led by Ryota Kanai of University College London led to similar results.
Kanai and colleagues analyzed 90 students, assessing his political ideas with a scale of one to five, from the most conservative to the most liberal.
Thereafter, the neuroscientists limaging team used MRI to study in detail the brain of students.
The results indicate how conservatives are more developed unamigdala, while liberals are characterized by a more extended anterior cingulate cortex.
In fact, the amygdala involved in responses to threatening stimuli and fear, and the anterior cingulate cortex becomes more active in conflict or uncertainty.
Based on these results, Kanai said that it could predict the political ideas from one scan of the brain with unaccuratezza 75% ..
The research done to date does not tell us that political beliefs are innate in the brain, but shows a possible link between the neuroanatomical differences and political ones.
Just as genetic research shows genetic correlations with political orientation.
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Article Topic: Neuroscience, Psychology
They are mentioned in the text: John Alford, James Fowler
Universities and research centers: Rice University
Political Psychology: some studies have investigated the emotion and intensity of the same in the voters on the right and left.
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