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Genes, psychological traits and civic engagement.
Dawes, Christopher T; Settle, Jaime E; Loewen, Peter John; McGue, Matt; Iacono, William G.
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  • Dawes CT; Department of Politics, New York University, New York, NY, USA cdawes@nyu.edu.
  • Settle JE; Government Department, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA, USA.
  • Loewen PJ; Department of Political Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
  • McGue M; Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
  • Iacono WG; Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci ; 370(1683): 20150015, 2015 Dec 05.
Article en En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-26503688
Civic engagement is a classic example of a collective action problem: while civic participation improves life in the community as a whole, it is individually costly and thus there is an incentive to free ride on the actions of others. Yet, we observe significant inter-individual variation in the degree to which people are in fact civically engaged. Early accounts reconciling the theoretical prediction with empirical reality focused either on variation in individuals' material resources or their attitudes, but recent work has turned to genetic differences between individuals. We show an underlying genetic contribution to an index of civic engagement (0.41), as well as for the individual acts of engagement of volunteering for community or public service activities (0.33), regularly contributing to charitable causes (0.28) and voting in elections (0.27). There are closer genetic relationships between donating and the other two activities; volunteering and voting are not genetically correlated. Further, we show that most of the correlation between civic engagement and both positive emotionality and verbal IQ can be attributed to genes that affect both traits. These results enrich our understanding of the way in which genetic variation may influence the wide range of collective action problems that individuals face in modern community life.
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Texto completo: 1 Colección: 01-internacional Base de datos: MEDLINE Asunto principal: Personalidad / Política / Conducta Social / Voluntarios / Organizaciones de Beneficencia Tipo de estudio: Prognostic_studies Aspecto: Determinantes_sociais_saude Límite: Humans Idioma: En Revista: Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci Año: 2015 Tipo del documento: Article País de afiliación: Estados Unidos Pais de publicación: Reino Unido
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Texto completo: 1 Colección: 01-internacional Base de datos: MEDLINE Asunto principal: Personalidad / Política / Conducta Social / Voluntarios / Organizaciones de Beneficencia Tipo de estudio: Prognostic_studies Aspecto: Determinantes_sociais_saude Límite: Humans Idioma: En Revista: Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci Año: 2015 Tipo del documento: Article País de afiliación: Estados Unidos Pais de publicación: Reino Unido