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Posted Tue Aug 17 2010: from American for Psychological Science, via EurekAlert:
People who cannot escape a system are likely to defend the status quo http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1282057585
 ...[P]eople who are told that their right to emigrate will be restricted have what could be considered a strange reaction: they respond by defending their country's system.... The researchers interpret that to mean that people who feel trapped in their country are more likely to try to justify the country's system and rationalize away its dissatisfactory elements. "We focused on policies, but there are a lot of other reasons that make it hard for people to leave. One of these is poverty," says Laurin. "It's a depressing thought that the poor, the very people who are put in the worst position by a particular system, might be the ones that are the most motivated to defend that system."
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