Stop working out guys...

[Ros]

...because you're more likely to turn into a self-interested right-winger.

www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health-fitness/strong-men-more-likely-to-have-right-wing-views-study-reveals/story-fneuzle5-1226644975491

I always suspected it.

Oh, and journalist peeps, the singular of 'biceps' is 'biceps,' there is no such word as 'bicep'!

[Deleted]

That sure explains a lot about me!

[MMX]

I am going to say that is load of hog wash. Most of these internet news reports these days have little actual facts in them.

[meguro]

Do political leaning change as strength waxes and wanes? What about women and strength, any correlation with how they vote? For myself, an increasing interest in strength training corresponds to aging, but not to how I vote.

[Ros]

Here's the actual study rather than a news report:http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1798773

It's not a cohort study, so no information on changing strength.  There's no correlation with women's political decision making and strength, which the author says is likely due to the fact that over the course of evolutionary history, women had less to gain and more to lose from engaging in direct physical aggression.

The study is suggesting that psychological traits that evolved in response to our early ancestral environments continue to influence behaviour today; it's interesting really (even though everyone knows that psychology isn't proper science! ).