Study: Physically Weak Men More Likely to Be Socialists


Dr. Michael Price is a senior lecturer in psychology at Brunei University. He received his bachelor’s degree at Duke University and his PhD at the University of California at Santa Barbara.

As he delves deeper into evolutionary psychology, Price perceives what he thinks might explain the difference in physical strength and political outlook.

This is about our Stone Age brains, in a modern society. Our minds evolved in environments where strength was a big determinant of success. If you find yourself in a body not threatened by other males, if you feel you can win competitions for status, then maybe you start thinking inequality is pretty good.”

As part of the research, Price decided to factor in gym time. He wanted to know, were men who are naturally strong more inclined to hold capitalistic views, or are men with capitalistic views more oriented to go to the gym?

He found it was more likely men with capitalistic views tend to work out in gyms. But he also factored in what occurs in our modern environment.

Of course this isn’t rational in modern environments, where your ability to win might have more to do with where you went to university. Lots of guys who are phenomenally successful in modern societies would probably be nowhere as successful in hunter gatherer societies.”

Similar studies in the past have pointed to the same conclusions reached by Price. A 2013 study at Aarhus University in Denmark concluded that stronger men are generally more right-wing than physically weaker men.

Researchers found that men’s opinions on redistribution of wealth could be predicted by their upper body strength, with powerful men more like to take a conservative stance of protecting their own interests.”

In an age where we have to consider a range of dire circumstances (nuclear attacks from rogue nations, EMP attacks on the electrical grid, terrorist bombings, disease pandemics), those preppers don’t seem so foolish, do they?

We sure don’t want to rely on a nation of pajama boys. We need to become a whole lot more self-reliant.

Source: Daily Wire

 



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