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In a 2003 study, funded by the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes for Health the authors concluded that conservatism can be explained psychologically as a set of neuroses rooted in "fear and aggression, dogmatism and the intolerance of ambiguity". The authors noted that " the intolerance of ambiguity can lead people to cling to the familiar, to arrive at premature conclusions…