Political Attitude and Fertility: Is There a Selection for the Political Extreme?

ABSTRACT: There is growing evidence that human ideology as well as social and political attitudes also have a genetic basis. In case of some genetic predisposition of political attitude, an association with fertility would be a hint of potential selection on political ideology. We therefore investigated on the basis of men and women that have completed, respectively, almost completed reproduction, of three different data sets (the World Value Survey 1981-2014 covering a wide range of countries and developmental levels, n = 152,380, the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe of 2005, n = 65,912, and the General Social Survey of the United States 1972-2014, n ∼ 6200) whether political attitude is associated with number of children. Overall, in the world wide survey, bot

SUBMITTER: Fieder M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6277747 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature