Politics are in our genes

While many volunteers are trying to convince each other during this election fever, they may well be wasting their efforts.

According to John Alford, political scientist at Rice University in Houston, we have to re-think persuasion. Our political views are deep-seated into our brains.

The idea goes back more than 2000 years when Aristotle wrote “Man is by nature a political animal."

Researchers are trying to find the correlation between social attitudes and political preferences. 8,000 twins answered a series of questions on political and social topics.

The result was that fraternal twins answered like non-twin brothers and sisters, while identical twins answered more similarly. Identical twins share their genetic code.

The next step is to observe the brain in action while these questions are asked.

Evidence to support this idea is growing by the day.

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