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Conservatives and Liberals

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Reserch
===Reserch===
Evidence for and against the hypotheses that political conservatism is significantly associated with:
* mental rigidity and closed-mindedness
**increased dogmatism and intolerance of ambiguity
** decreased cognitive complexity
** decreased openness to experience
** uncertainty avoidance
** personal needs for order and structure
**need for cognitive closure
* lowered self-esteem
* fear, anger, and aggression
* pessimism, disgust, and contempt
* loss prevention
* fear of death
* threat arising from social and economic deprivation
* threat to the stability ofthe social system
 
'''Dogmatism''': The right wingers are much more mentaly rigid (dogmatice) the left-wing extremists, according to the reserch in the field.