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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (418420)	9/20/2008 10:45:16 AM
From: SilentZ	Respond to of 1576855

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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (418420)	9/22/2008 9:50:18 AM
From: Sun Tzu	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576855

There has been plenty of academic research into conservatives and conservative movements since 2001. The fields of study have been as diverse as social sciences to genetics. And yet they have all produced remarkably consistent (or at least compatible) conclusions: conservatism is rooted in insecurity. For example there was one study in 2002 (2003?) that used fMRI to brain scan liberals and conservatives as they looked at images of people in WTC at 9/11. Brain scans showed liberals felt pain, whereas conservatives felt fear and anger. Another study looked at 70 years of conservative movements around the world. It concluded that conservatives have much lower tolerance for uncertainty and vagueness compared to liberals and are willing to submit to authority and accept inequality to gain "stability." Another study (I think from two years ago) produced results very similar to the last paragraph's study, although it used interviews with contemporary conservatives and among other things found out that superstition (or lack of objective belief system) is one of the key separators of the two camps. Anyone will tell you that superstition is rooted in fear. The most positive study of conservatives that I have seen is here edge.org I found it fascinating that someone could actually make a Ph.D. thesis of this, but it is worth the read. Anyway, I'm out of here, unless Michael cheats his way out of paying up, to make me haunt him ;) cheers, ST