Political Taste: Exploring how perception of bitter substances may reveal risk tolerance and political preferences

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Brief Overview

We plan to investigate the connections between genetic and self-reported bitter taste reception, the relationship to risk tolerance, and both of their associations with political orientations.

Authors

• Amanda Friesen, Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis

• Aleksander Ksiazkiewicz, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign