Men Who Are Physically Stronger Tend To Be Against "Wealth Redistribution"

Men who are physically stronger tend to hold more conservative views, according to a new study.

It all has to do with upper-body strength. The study done out of a university in Denmark concludes that there is a correlation between bicep size, socio-economic status and general support for “economic redistribution,” The Daily Mail is reporting.

The correlation apparently doesn’t apply to women, only to guys. Men with less upper-body strength were more likely to support left-wing causes.

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The study was done by Aarhus University in Denmark. They examined men in the United States, Argentina and Denmark and published the results in the journalPsychological Science.

One of the authors of the study, Professor Michael Peterson, said “In all three countries, physically strong males consistently pursued the self-interested position on redistribution.

“However physically weak males were more reluctant to assert their self-interest – just as if disputes over national policies were a matter of direct physical confrontation between individuals.

‘While many people think of politics as a modern phenomenon, it has, in a sense, always been with our species.

Professor Petersen added: ‘Many previous studies have shown that people’s political views cannot be predicted by standard economic models.

‘This is among the first studies to show that political views may be rational in another sense, in that they’re designed by natural selection to function in the conditions recurrent over human evolutionary history.’