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Comment author: see 24 January 2012 11:03:33PM 0 points [-]

But it may be many different causes for different people.

Oh, of course. I speak from only my own mix of experience and imagination, not as a trained or experienced psychologist. The powerful emotions of my individual experience definitely bias me to a specific view which I probably overgeneralize, even when I'm conscious that I might be overgeneralizing.