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Conservatives and Liberals

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Proposed Outcomes
Liberals will prefer less "group" prefernces and more intelgent solutions.
More intelligent people tend to adopt liberal ideology (<ref>Kanazawa, S. (2010). Why liberals and atheists are more intelligent. Social Psychology Quarterly, 73(1), 33–57.</ref>.Liberals are more trusting but have smaller social networks, while conservatives find faster threatening facial emotion and have larger social networks (<ref>Vigil, J. M. (2010). Political leanings vary with facial expression processing and psychosocial functioning. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 13(5), 547–558. doi:10.1177/1368430209356930</ref>. Conservatives detect threatening faces more easly. With less stress(<ref>Giuseffi, K. (2012). Processing Facial Emotions: An EEG Study of the Differences between Conservatives and Liberals and Across Political Participation. University of Nebraska.</ref>.
Liberals have the same implicit intuitions about moral, but explicitly they adjust to liberal morals (<ref>Graham et al, J., Englander, Z., Morris, J., Hawkins, C., Haidt, J., & Nosek, B. (2012). Warning Bell: Liberals Implicitly Respond to Group Morality Before Rejecting it Explicitly.</ref> Conservatives, is suggested, are more aware of social asspects, due to more learning through the amygdala, and therefore conform to society (<ref>Wright , J. C., & Baril, G. (2011). The role of cognitive resources in determining our moral intuitions: Are we all liberals at heart? Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 47(5), 1007–1012.</ref> 
All in all, conservative learn and react more to emotions through the amygdala, and may exhibt more aggresivnes toward threat, while liberals are less effective in the social filld, but are more effective in conflict detaction, thoughs create more non-social ineligible solutions. Liberals are more wise on the social level, while liberals more wise on the non-social level.
 
===Causes of Conservatism===