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==Liberals and ACC==
[[Conservatives and Liberals|Liberals]] have higher [[ACC]] gray volume<ref>Kanai R, Feilden T, Firth C, Rees G (2011) Political orientations are correlated with brain structure in young adults. Curr Biol 21: 677–680.</ref>. ACC is connected to conflict resultion (rACC to social conflict and dACC to non-social conflict). Reward valence modulates conflict-driven attentional adaptation in the ACC<ref>[http://bernhard-hommel.eu/Van%20Steenbergen%20et%20al.%20(2012).%20Reward%20valence%20modulates%20conflict-driven%20attentional%20adaptation.pdf van Steenbergen, Guido P.H. Band and Bernhard Hommel, Reward valence modulates conflict-driven attentional adaptation: Electrophysiological evidence, 2012]</ref>. ACC appear to encode negatively-valenced components, such as cost or effort<ref>Walton ME, Bannerman DM, Alterescu K, Rushworth MFS. Functional specialization within medial frontal cortex of the anterior cingulate for evaluating effort-related decisions. Journal of Neuroscience. 2003;23: 6475– 6490.</ref>. Greater liberalism was associated with stronger conflict-related [[ACC|anterior cingulate activity]], suggesting greater neurocognitive sensitivity to cues for altering a habitual response pattern, while conservatives have larger volume of right amygdala<ref>[http://www.psych.nyu.edu/amodiolab/Publications_files/Amodio_etal_2007_NatureNeuro.pdf Amodio, D. M., Jost, J. T., Master, S. L., & Yee, C. M. (2007). Neurocognitive correlates of liberalism and conservatism. Nature neuroscience, 10(10), 1246-1247.]</ref><ref>Kanai, R., Feilden, T., Firth, C., & Rees, G. (2011). Political orientations are correlated with brain structure in young adults. Current Biology : CB, 21(8), 677–80. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2011.03. 017</ref> As well as more avodience of doing, due to the highten percived costs that the higher volume of the ACC can cause<ref>Suggestion: Tal Yaron, 29/6/2014</ref>.
The ACC is important for responce time, therefore it was suggested that the ACC is related to "global energizing factor"<ref>Stuss, Donald T., Michael P. Alexander, Tim Shallice, Terence W. Picton, Malcolm A. Binns, Ronald Macdonald, Agnes Borowiec, and Douglas I. Katz. "Multiple frontal systems controlling response speed." Neuropsychologia 43, no. 3 (2005): 396-417.</ref>