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[[File:Lib-con summery.JPG|200px|thumb|right|Overview of the theory of conservatives and liberals]]
Conservatism is a social and psychological phenomena that is part of society. In every culture there are large proportion of people who resist changes in society. The proportion of conservatism in society may change according to many factors. Conservatism level may differ among cultures, and in the same culture in different times. Yet even in societies that are thought to be more liberal and in time the liberalism dominates the culture, conservatism, is strong and influential.
From the early 50s, the causes of conservatism was the scope of wide research. Jost et al<ref>Jost et al. 2003...</ref> has done extensive literature review and summed the findings from 88 samples, involving a near of 23,000 participants from 12 countries. They have found that conservatism is correlated to several factors related to cognitive needs, and to existential motivation. They found that conservatism is associate with mental rigidty, increased dogmatism and intolarance to ambiguty, decress in cognitive complexity, decreased openness to new experience, uncertainty avoidance, personal need for structure and order and a need for closure. In the existential needs, low self esteem may promote resistance to change. Fear anger and anxiety, fear of death, hard economic periods and the instability ofthe economic system were all found to promote conservatism.
====Suggested causes of the properties====
(explain what these correlations are caused by fear and managing uncertainty)
Jost et al speculated that in the core of these behaviors lie a basic need to mange fear and uncertainty.
amibguty....
====The causes in the light of brain research====
(Fear and need for certainty, fits brain research.... and show how it fits)
====Suggested mechanism for conservatism====
=====Basic Mechanism=====
explain mechanism (FFFF -{ACCi -> mostly system1; X(need to do work)-{ACCi -> mainly system1; FFFF-> seratonin->solidarity; ACCa -> search for novelity (some reward)
Folllow by examples
=====Advance Mechanism=====
complex mechanism: areas of lib/con..... illiberals.....
Follow by examples
OK, we established theortical frame.
====Discussion, or What can we do?====
If FFFF and Certainty are the cause of con, then by changing them, we can start change the settings, so we can reduce ACC inhibition. When people get familier, they are less stressed--> reduction of fear....food, basic needs satisified...; certainty: I prime them by saing, we do not have to decide now, or it will not influance the future, or we do not have to solve anything.... or truth talk (avoid uncritical type II discusion), give yourself time....
==Letriture review==