Social Policy and Reform Studies · Survey experiment

If genes help explain income, do people give up on equality?

Paper: No Argument with Biology? The Effects of Genetic Explanations for Socioeconomic Outcomes on American and Swedish Citizens’ Attitudes Towards Government Intervention
Pettersson · Behavior Genetics 2026 · doi.org/10.1007/s10519-026-10258-0

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If genes help explain income, do people give up on equality? Two survey experiments with 4,008 Americans and Swedes suggest not. People told about genetic explanations showed no systematic turn against redistribution. If anything, support rose slightly, mainly in Sweden.

AI-assisted summary with an AI voice, not reviewed by the authors. Made from the paper under its CC BY licence. Read the paper before relying on a finding. Keywords: twin studies, income and education disparities, naturalization of inequality, genetic determinism.