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Such steps will certainly impact neural development for the better, although it is likely beyond our capacity to accurately measure how much.
One additional point about the dynamism of human nature is important to note.
Epigenetic forces, however, are more amenable to change.
It is possible to reduce the amount of stress on pregnant mothers caused by poverty or to remove young children from a war zone, where their developing brains are subject to extreme anxiety.
We can study them, and use them to predict where conflict will manifest and what kind of personality types tend to be conflict prone, but they are generally assumed to be relatively fixed in nature.
Genetic preconditions of conflict are static variables.
For conflict managers, therefore, focusing on the genetics makes little practical sense.
In the West, for instance, a common stereotype is that Afghan men are tribal, violent, and traditional and Afghan women submissive, silent, and dominated
That we are wired to create patterns out of chaos is, in and of itself, not conflict triggering.
This capacity to see patterns and sort them into meaningful categories aids survival because it allows infants to distinguish between, for instance, a house cat and a lion, sunlight versus a fire, their mother versus someone else's mother.
Many cognitive psychologists claim that the human brain is hardwired at birth to categorize objects, people, and groups.
President Trump regularly challenged constitutional constraints placed upon the presidency and would regularly deny information that was contradictory to his goals, to the point of triggering a near constitutional crisis in the United States at the end of his term in office.