Processes through which parental ideology is transmitted to children-especially at a young age prior to the formation of political beliefs-remain poorly understood. Given recent evidence that political ideology is associated with neural responses to cognitive conflict in adults, we tested the exploratory hypothesis that children's neurocognitive responses to conflict may also differ depending on their parents' ideology. We assessed relations between parental political ideology and children's neurocognitive responses to conflict, as measured by the N2 component of the event-related potential. Children aged 5-7 completed an age-appropriate flanker task while electroencephalography was recorded, and the N2 was scored to incongruent versus congruent flankers to index conflict processing. Because previous research documents heightened liberal-conservative differences in threat-relevant contexts, each trial of the task was preceded by an angry face (threat-relevant) or comparison face (happy or neutral). An effect of parental ideology on the conflict-related N2 emerged in the threat condition, such that the N2 was larger among children of liberals compared with children of moderates and conservatives. These findings suggest that individual differences in neurocognitive responses to conflict, heightened in the context of threat, may reflect a more general pattern of individual differences that, in adults, relates to political ideology.

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:人们对父母意识形态(特别是在形成政治信仰之前的年幼年龄)传播给孩子的过程仍然知之甚少。鉴于最近的证据表明政治意识形态与成年人对认知冲突的神经反应有关,我们检验了探索性假设,即儿童对冲突的神经认知反应也可能取决于父母的意识形态而有所不同。我们评估了父母的政治思想与儿童对冲突的神经认知反应之间的关系,这是通过事件相关电位的N2成分来衡量的。 5至7岁的儿童完成了适合年龄的侧翼任务,同时记录了脑电图,并且将N2分为不相称与相称的侧翼以对冲突处理进行评分。由于先前的研究文献在威胁相关环境中加剧了保守主义保守主义的差异,因此在每次执行任务之前,都要先生气一张脸(与威胁相关)或一张比较脸(高兴或中立)。在威胁条件下,父母意识形态对与冲突有关的N2产生了影响,因此与温和派和保守派儿童相比,自由派儿童中的N2更大。这些发现表明,在威胁的背景下,对冲突的神经认知反应中的个体差异可能会反映出一种更普遍的个体差异模式,这种模式在成年人中与政治意识形态有关。

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