Correlation not causation: the relationship between personality traits and political ideologies.
Correlation not causation: the relationship between personality traits and political ideologies.
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1540-5907.2011.00568.x
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发表时间：
2012
影响因子：
4.2
通讯作者：
Hatemi PK
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文献类型：
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作者：
Verhulst B;Eaves LJ;Hatemi PK
人格和政治文献中的假设是，一个人的人格会激励他们在以后的生活中发展某些政治态度。这一假设是建立在这两个结构之间的简单相关性和观察到的人格特质是受基因影响并在婴儿期发展的，而政治偏好是在生活的后期发展起来的。然而，心理学、行为遗传学和最近的政治学研究表明，政治偏好也会在童年时期形成，并同样受到遗传因素的影响。这些发现令人对假设的人格与政治之间的因果关系产生了怀疑。在这里，我们使用一个遗传信息样本的因果关系结构模型来检验人格特征和政治态度之间的因果关系。结果表明，个性特征并不会导致人们形成政治态度；相反，两者之间的相关性是一种与生俱来的共同潜在遗传因素的作用。
The assumption in the personality and politics literature is that a person's personality motivates them to develop certain political attitudes later in life. This assumption is founded on the simple correlation between the two constructs and the observation that personality traits are genetically influenced and develop in infancy, whereas political preferences develop later in life. Work in psychology, behavioral genetics, and recently political science, however, has demonstrated that political preferences also develop in childhood and are equally influenced by genetic factors. These findings cast doubt on the assumed causal relationship between personality and politics. Here we test the causal relationship between personality traits and political attitudes using a direction of causation structural model on a genetically informative sample. The results suggest that personality traits do not cause people to develop political attitudes; rather, the correlation between the two is a function of an innate common underlying genetic factor.
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影响因子：
4.2
作者：
CONOVER, PJ;FELDMAN, S
通讯作者：
FELDMAN, S
影响因子：
4.2
作者：
CONOVER, PJ;FELDMAN, S
通讯作者：
FELDMAN, S
影响因子：
3.3
作者：
Block, Jack;Block, Jeanne H.
通讯作者：
Block, Jeanne H.
影响因子：
3.4
作者：
COSTA, PT;MCCRAE, RR
通讯作者：
MCCRAE, RR
影响因子：
2.6
作者：
Eaves, Lindon J.;Hatemi, Peter K.
通讯作者：
Hatemi, Peter K.