CONSERVATISM AND PLANNING Conservatism consists primarily of an increased sensit

CONSERVATISM AND PLANNING

Conservatism consists primarily of an increased sensitivity to threats both short and long term, and a reliance on hierarchy and order as a means for ensuring the persistence of the group and the self. However, what we fail to understand, is that an increased sensitivity to threats, results in a more complex inter-temporal planning structure, and that order simplifies the act of planning for the mitigation of threats. Like all cognitive biases there is a reason for their existence.