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.

Expansionistic leaders, in contrast, are closed to receiving information that disconfirms their beliefs, challenge constraints imposed upon them, and focus on solving problems, not maintaining relationships.

Accommodative leaders, for example, respect constraints imposed on them, are open to information that may contradict their point of view, and seek to maintain good relationships.

Among political psychologists there has been a parallel effort to identify traits that characterize the behavior of political leaders.