Dr Adam Perkins, a lecturer in the neurobiology of personality at the Institute
of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King’s College London.
Perkins is a social scientist whose research findings pose a direct
challenge to one of the central planks of left-wing ideology.
Over the past five years, he has accumulated a mass of evidence about
the personalities of welfare claimants and concluded that individuals with
aggressive, rule-breaking and anti-social tendencies — what he calls the
‘employment–resistant personality profile’ — are over-represented among benefit
recipients. He also found that their children are likely to share those traits,
which helps explain why poverty has a tendency to be passed down from one
generation to the next
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