[p2p-research] People who cannot escape a system are likely to defend the status quo

[Samuel Rose]

On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 3:57 PM, Ryan <rlanham1963 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> People who cannot escape a system are likely to defend the status quo
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Interesting.

Clare W. Graves ( http://clarewgraves.com ) figured this out way back
in the 1950's and 60's. He suggested that people, when confronted with
change, would adapt by emerging new ways of dealing with the change,
returning to previous ways of dealing with the change, or "circling
the wagons" and keeping with status quo.


> via Machines Like Us - Science at the speed of thought by NLN on 16/08/10
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> A new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association
> for Psychological Science, finds that people 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.
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