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Fear Baised Observations
=====Fear Baised Observations=====
People that are [[FFFF|stressed]] may look at their surrounding in more dichotomic view, sorting the social world into in to good and bad, and will generalized from very few observations. Especially if the subject of observation is categorized as bad. For instance if a remember member of another ethnic group will behave in a negative way, the observer will conclude that all the members of the ethnic group behaves in a similar negative way. This is due the need of the [[FFFF]] system, which is activated feeling of emergency, to make very fast decisions. It has to decide whether other subjects may harm us or help us. Usually, Conservatives are more liable to dichotomic views, caused by fear<ref>[http://faculty.virginia.edu/haidtlab/jost.glaser.political-conservatism-as-motivated-social-cog.pdf Johen, J., Glaser, J., Kruglanski, A., & Sulloway, F. J. (2003). Political Conservatism as Motivated Social Cognition. Psychological Bulletin, 129(3), 339–375.]</ref>.
==Brain process involving decision making==