Muscular men have self-interested politics, says study

Mon, 22 Oct 2012 21:59:00 +0000

A study has found that physically strong men are more likely to hold self-interested political opinions than their less muscular male counterparts, the Economist reported. Michael Petersen of the University of Aarhus in Denmark and Daniel Sznycer of the University of California, Santa Barbara, sought to investigate whether any correlations existed between physical characteristics and political views.

Their findings, published in Psychological Science and picked up by the Economist, indicate that in men only there appears to be an alignment of physical strength and expressed political self-interest. The Economist reports:

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Muscular men have self-interested politics, says study