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Male descendant kin promote conservative views on gender issues and conformity to traditional norms
Political and social attitudes have been shown to differ by sex in a way that tracks individual self-interest. We propose that these attitudes also change strategically to serve the best interests of either male or female kin. To test this hypothesis, we developed a measure of gendered fitness inter...
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2021
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10427321/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37588530 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ehs.2021.29 |
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author | Kerry, Nicholas Blake, Khandis R. Murray, Damian R. Brooks, Robert C. |
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description | Political and social attitudes have been shown to differ by sex in a way that tracks individual self-interest. We propose that these attitudes also change strategically to serve the best interests of either male or female kin. To test this hypothesis, we developed a measure of gendered fitness interests (GFI) – an index which reflects the sex, relatedness and residual reproductive value of close kin. We predicted that people with male-biased GFI (i.e. people with more male kin of a reproductive age) would have more conservative attitudes towards gender-related issues (e.g. gender roles, women's rights, abortion rights). An online study using an American sample (N = 560) found support for this hypothesis. Further analyses revealed that this relationship was driven not only by people's own sex and reproductive value but also by those of their descendant kin. Exploratory analyses also found a positive association between male-biased GFI and a measure of conformity, as well as a smaller association between male-biased GFI and having voted Republican in the last election. Both of these associations were statistically mediated by gender-related conservatism. These findings are consistent with the hypothesis that GFI influences sociopolitical attitudes. |
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spelling | pubmed-104273212023-08-16 Male descendant kin promote conservative views on gender issues and conformity to traditional norms Kerry, Nicholas Blake, Khandis R. Murray, Damian R. Brooks, Robert C. Evol Hum Sci Research Article Political and social attitudes have been shown to differ by sex in a way that tracks individual self-interest. We propose that these attitudes also change strategically to serve the best interests of either male or female kin. To test this hypothesis, we developed a measure of gendered fitness interests (GFI) – an index which reflects the sex, relatedness and residual reproductive value of close kin. We predicted that people with male-biased GFI (i.e. people with more male kin of a reproductive age) would have more conservative attitudes towards gender-related issues (e.g. gender roles, women's rights, abortion rights). An online study using an American sample (N = 560) found support for this hypothesis. Further analyses revealed that this relationship was driven not only by people's own sex and reproductive value but also by those of their descendant kin. Exploratory analyses also found a positive association between male-biased GFI and a measure of conformity, as well as a smaller association between male-biased GFI and having voted Republican in the last election. Both of these associations were statistically mediated by gender-related conservatism. These findings are consistent with the hypothesis that GFI influences sociopolitical attitudes. Cambridge University Press 2021-05-28 /pmc/articles/PMC10427321/ /pubmed/37588530 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ehs.2021.29 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Kerry, Nicholas Blake, Khandis R. Murray, Damian R. Brooks, Robert C. Male descendant kin promote conservative views on gender issues and conformity to traditional norms |
title | Male descendant kin promote conservative views on gender issues and conformity to traditional norms |
title_full | Male descendant kin promote conservative views on gender issues and conformity to traditional norms |
title_fullStr | Male descendant kin promote conservative views on gender issues and conformity to traditional norms |
title_full_unstemmed | Male descendant kin promote conservative views on gender issues and conformity to traditional norms |
title_short | Male descendant kin promote conservative views on gender issues and conformity to traditional norms |
title_sort | male descendant kin promote conservative views on gender issues and conformity to traditional norms |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10427321/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37588530 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ehs.2021.29 |
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