John Avlon: A good amount of politics is our personality. He says a lot of that might be baked into your personality at a really young age. But part of it here is also bottom up potentially, he adds. Avlon: Only about 40 to 50% probably about 40% of your political preferences is heritable.
In this episode we sit down with NYU psychologist Jay Van Bavel who is very good at Twitter. His feed is always overflowing with the absolute latest and greatest research from psychology with links to papers as they come out – on many of the topics we so often explore on this podcast – and in this episode we discuss ten of those tweets and the research he’s shared.