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In reply to the discussion: Romney only American family with 5 generations of no military service? [View all]2on2u
(1,843 posts)53. An utter lack of patriotism or a genetically induced propensity for fear.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12860774
RESULTS:
All components of the fear conditioning process in humans demonstrated moderate heritability, in the range of 35% to 45%. Best-fitting multivariate models suggest that 2 sets of genes may underlie the trait of fear conditioning: one that most strongly affects nonassociative processes of habituation that also is shared with acquisition and extinction, and a second that appears related to associative fear conditioning processes. In addition, these data provide tentative evidence of differences in heritability based on the fear relevance of the stimuli.
CONCLUSION:
Genes represent a significant source of individual variation in the habituation, acquisition, and extinction of fears, and genetic effects specific to fear conditioning are involved.
RESULTS:
All components of the fear conditioning process in humans demonstrated moderate heritability, in the range of 35% to 45%. Best-fitting multivariate models suggest that 2 sets of genes may underlie the trait of fear conditioning: one that most strongly affects nonassociative processes of habituation that also is shared with acquisition and extinction, and a second that appears related to associative fear conditioning processes. In addition, these data provide tentative evidence of differences in heritability based on the fear relevance of the stimuli.
CONCLUSION:
Genes represent a significant source of individual variation in the habituation, acquisition, and extinction of fears, and genetic effects specific to fear conditioning are involved.
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Romney only American family with 5 generations of no military service? [View all]
Liberal_in_LA
Aug 2012
OP
Nope--the Mormon men I've known were my husband's coworkers in the military.
TwilightGardener
Aug 2012
#83
I was wondering that. I was wondering if ANYONE here could meet that standard.
jsmirman
Aug 2012
#20
my mom has family who fought in the ones no one knows about -before the french and
roguevalley
Aug 2012
#41
Yeah; sins of the fathers is silly enough without adding "great-great grand" to that. (nt)
Posteritatis
Aug 2012
#32
I think there might be a lot of Amish families that have a few more generations than that.
Kalidurga
Aug 2012
#30
the family hasn't been in the us five generations straight. george was born in mexico.
HiPointDem
Aug 2012
#50
They started in the US--just because they took a convenient period of exile in Mexico to avoid
hlthe2b
Aug 2012
#64
If my father-in-law were alive, I don't know how he'd feel about this...
a la izquierda
Aug 2012
#56
Unbelievable... I know of no family that doesn't at least have WWII vets in their "lineage"....
hlthe2b
Aug 2012
#63
this is a great little comeback for all those obama is not an american type of thing
dembotoz
Aug 2012
#74
A little trivia about Richard Nixon's Great-Grandfather George Nixon (1821-July 14 1863) who was a
ArnoldLayne
Aug 2012
#80