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Dr Shock MD PhD
The relationship between personality and political preferences is not the simple relation between conservatism and negative personality traits on the one hand and liberalism and positive personality traits on the other hand. Personality is understood as the combination of innate dispositions and personal experiences that guides behavior in a stable and predictive manner. Behavior is also determined by environmental circumstances. In this way it is plausible to presume that personality and politics seem related to each other.
More recent research shed some more light on this relationship. The relationship is not assumed to be strictly causal. It seems likely that the relationship between personality traits and political attitude is in part the expression of the same underlying genetic liability. In the end the relationship between personality and political attitudes seems to be influenced by genetics and environmental circumstances.
Individual differences in both personality traits and political attitudes could be decomposed into genetic and environmental variance components.
From a large Australian study data were obtained from 3254 twin pairs of the same sex and 363 unlikely sex pairs. …