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====Suggested causes of the properties====
(explain what these correlations are caused by fear and managing uncertainty)
Jost et al speculated that the properties of conservatives are the product of two basic needs. The first is the need to mange fears and to handle threats, and the second is to achieve certainty.(explain how this is corrolated). For instance dogmatism and a need to closure, will help a person that needs certainty, to reduce the complexity of options and information and achieve decisions more easily. It may not be the best option or the most subtle decision, but it will ease up decision making. A closed mind is also useful in cases of threats. During the core evolution most of the threats needed fast reactions that depend on quick decision making. If a gazelle will not react properly to a threat in splits of a second, it may become the next meal of a predator. In light of a threat complex thinking is not adaptive and strait and simple thinking is needed. Evolution drove creatures to develop a system that will produce fast reactions to threats. This system is widely spread in the animal world, and is also part of the reaction system of humans. It is called "fight or flight". In the human world some of the threats can evolve slowly or may take much more time to affect, yet probably because the fight or flight reaction is so conserved, people will use it even in light of slow evolving threat. People may react with anger to news in the media about rape or some misdeeds, although there is no immediate threat, and therefor no immediate need to reaction. So although part of the threats we conceive do not need quick decision making, the reaction that was evolved through evolution still take charge, and people will look for more simple and strait-forward thinking while perceiving a threat. Dogmatism and closed mindedness are just these behaviors lie simple thinking, in a basic need reaction to a threat, and because conservatives perceive the world as more threatening, they will be more dogmatic as a reaction to a perceived menace. Decreased openness to experience are also the product reaction to mange fear threat and reducing uncertainty. When seeking to find working solutions, new experience may may take time and usage of brain process needed to evaluate the different established options that can produce a more certain solution. New experience may be thrilling, but to establish high certainty based on new solution need experiencing the... solution time after time....amibguty.Also, when in danger, seeking for new experience is not adaptive.While in danger, we have to decide fast, and try to decide according to our already established knowledge, which actions to take. Therefore, people who perceive the world as more dangerous, will seek certainty, and will try to avoid the ambiguity that came along with new experience.
====The causes in the light of brain research====
(Fear and need for certainty, fits brain research.... and show how it fits)
Jost et al. hypothesis, fits well to the new understandings of how the brain works.
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
====Suggested mechanism for conservatism====