Evidence for the construct validity and heritability of the Wilson-Patterson Conservatism Scale: A reared-apart twins study of social attitudes.

By T. Bouchard, N. Segal, A. Tellegen, Matthew McGue, M. Keyes, Robert Krueger. 2003

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Intuitive Ethics and Political Orientations: Testing Moral Foundations as a Theory of Political Ideology (2017, methodology): “We chose this measure deliberately because it is a widely used and validated measure of ideology (Bouchard et al. 2003; Everett 2013), includes specific attitudes previously found to be linked to MFT measures (Inbar et al.”
The end of the end of ideology. (2006, background): “The stunning organizational success of the conservative movement is one of the most significant events in American political history over the last 25 years or so, but it would stretch credulity beyond bounds to claim that it has been a “revolt of the moderates” (see, inter alia, Brock, 2004; Dean, 2”
A Genetic Basis for Social Trust? (2010, background): “…the growing body of empirical evidence which suggests that social attitudes and dispositions like trust have a genetic basis (Alford et al. 2005; Arvery et al. 1989; Bouchard et al. 2003; Eaves and Hatemi 2008; Eaves et al. 1989; Fowler et al. 2008; Hatemi et al. 2007, 2009a, b; Heath et al. 1985).”
Genes and Ideologies (2008, background): “4 For altruism, see, e.g., Rushton, Littlefield, and Lumsden 1986; for criminality, see, e.g., Moffitt 2005, Rhee and Waldman 2002; for “religiosity” see, e.g., Bouchard et al. 1999; for conservatism, see, e.g., Bouchard et al. 2003.”
Political ideology: its structure, functions, and elective affinities. (2009, background): “…compared samples of identical and fraternal twins in the United States and Australia and estimated that as much as 40% to 50% of the statistical variability in ideological opinions (but not political partisanship) was attributable to genetic factors (see also Bouchard et al. 2003, Carmen 2007 ).”
Genetic and Environmental Transmission of Political Orientations (2013, result): “…consistent with previous research that has looked at the heritability of personality traits (e.g., Jang, Livesely, & Vernon, 1996), right-wing authoritarianism (McCourt et al., 1999), and the Wilson-Patterson ideology measure (Alford et al., 2005; Bouchard et al., 2003; Martin et al., 1986).”
“Elective Affinities”: On the Psychological Bases of Left–Right Differences (2009, unknown): “with Burke, Marx, and their contemporaries over the issue of social change, the position taken by Wildavsky (1989) and Greenberg and Jonas (2003) that leftists and rightists are equally desirous of change ignores a veritable mountain of psychological data documenting major differences between libera”
The Heritability of Partisan Attachment (2009, background): “Instead, it is strongly correlated with environmental influences, such as demographic and socioeconomic factors (Alford, Funk, and Hibbing 2005; Eaves, Eysenck, and Martin 1989; Olson, Vernon, and Jang 2001; Bouchard et al. 2003).”
Nursery school personality and political orientation two decades later (2006, background): “A number of studies have appeared in the last decades testifying to the “heritability” of political orientation (see, e.g., Bouchard, Lykken, McGue, Segal, & Tellegen, 1990; Bouchard et al., 2003, 2004; Eaves & Eysenck, 1974; Eaves, Martin, Meyer, & Corey, 1999; Martin et al., 1986; Tesser, 1993).”
Are Political Orientations Genetically Transmitted? (2005, background): “Instead, it is strongly correlated with environmental influences, such as demographic and socioeconomic factors (Alford, Funk, and Hibbing 2005; Eaves, Eysenck, and Martin 1989; Olson, Vernon, and Jang 2001; Bouchard et al. 2003).”
'Obedience to traditional authority:' A heritable factor underlying authoritarianism, conservatism and religiousness (2013, background): “Previous work indicates that such effects were trivial for the TMVT measures in this sample (Bouchard, McGue, Lykken, & Tellegen, 1999; Bouchard et al., 2003; McCourt et al., 1999).”
Core and Surface Characteristics for the Description and Theory of Personality Differences and Development (2014, background): “…found moderate to substantial genetic influences on individual differences in RWA and related constructs (e.g. conservatism) with heritability estimates of about 50% to 60% in adulthood (Alford, Funk, & Hibbing, 2005; Bouchard et al., 2003; McCourt, Bouchard, Lykken, Tellegan, & Keyes, 1999).”