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dc.contributor.authorPetersen, Michael Bang
dc.contributor.authorSznycer, Daniel
dc.contributor.authorSell, Aaron
dc.contributor.authorCosmides, Leda
dc.contributor.authorTooby, John
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T15:53:17Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T15:53:17Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.date.modified2013-11-12T23:09:08Z
dc.identifier.issn09567976
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/0956797612466415
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/54292
dc.description.abstractOver human evolutionary history, upper-body strength has been a major component of fighting ability. Evolutionary models of animal conflict predict that actors with greater fighting ability will more actively attempt to acquire or defend resources than less formidable contestants will. Here, we applied these models to political decision making about redistribution of income and wealth among modern humans. In studies conducted in Argentina, Denmark, and the United States, men with greater upper-body strength more strongly endorsed the self-beneficial position: Among men of lower socioeconomic status (SES), strength predicted increased support for redistribution; among men of higher SES, strength predicted increased opposition to redistribution. Because personal upper-body strength is irrelevant to payoffs from economic policies in modern mass democracies, the continuing role of strength suggests that modern political decision making is shaped by an evolved psychology designed for small-scale groups.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherSage Publications
dc.publisher.placeUnited States
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom1099
dc.relation.ispartofpageto1103
dc.relation.ispartofissue7
dc.relation.ispartofjournalPsychological Science
dc.relation.ispartofvolume24
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchCriminology not elsewhere classified
dc.subject.fieldofresearchPsychology and Cognitive Sciences not elsewhere classified
dc.subject.fieldofresearchPsychology
dc.subject.fieldofresearchCognitive Sciences
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode160299
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode179999
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode1701
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode1702
dc.titleThe Ancestral Logic of Politics: Upper-Body Strength Regulates Men’s Assertion of Self-Interest Over Economic Redistribution
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.date.issued2013
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorSell, Aaron N.


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