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Jost et al. hypothesis, fits well to the new understandings of how the brain works.
# Conservatives are more afraid (<ref>[http://www.talyaron.com/wiki/index.php?title=Political_Attitudes_Vary_with_Physiological_Traits,_science_2008 appear in this paperPolitical Attitudes Vary with Physiological Traits, science 2008])</ref>.#
FFFF inhibits the ACC<ref>[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2701368/pdf/nihms98729.pdf Tracy A. Dennis and Chao-Cheng Chen, Trait anxiety and conflict monitoring following threat: An ERP study, Psychophysiology. 2009 January; 46(1): 122–131.]</ref><ref>Kristin A. Bussa, Tracy A. Dennisb, Rebecca J. Brookera, Lauren M. Sippela, An ERP study of conflict monitoring in 4–8-year old children: Associations with temperament, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, Volume 1, Issue 2, April 2011, Pages 131–140</ref>. In fear the rostral ACC is responding to threat stimulis<ref>[http://bishoplab.berkeley.edu/bishopnn.pdf S Bishop, J Duncan, M Brett, AD Lawrence, Prefrontal cortical function and anxiety: controlling attention to threat-related stimuli, Nature neuroscience, 2004]</ref>. and it take resources frome the dorsal ACC, that is responible for cognitive conflict resulotion<ref>19</ref><ref>31</ref><ref>g (Easterbrook, 1959; Hanoch & Vitouch,
When rostral ACC is not active, one can not learn.
Look also: [http://www.pnas.org/content/109/36/14681.short PNAS lison survey (2012)]
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