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The causes in the light of brain research
Conservatives are more afraid ([http://www.talyaron.com/wiki/index.php?title=Political_Attitudes_Vary_with_Physiological_Traits,_science_2008 appear in this paper])
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 activated?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>. The threat do not influance much in non-clinicla groups<ref>13, 29</ref>. but can be observed in clinical populations<ref>32</ref>. In anxiaty, the main mechanism, is of attention distraction<ref>9, 19, 32</ref>.It is because of law rostral ACC acitivity (thus inability to concntrate) and reduced recurtment of laterl PFC (used for high control)<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>. It was found that in highy enxialty (in clinical population) the anxities showed less activation of the rosteral ACC.
====Suggested mechanism for conservatism====