Political Psychology and Economic Psychology

  • Wachtel P
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Abstract

Suggests that the field of political psychology should include the economic dimension of people's lives and presents some research on taxation to illustrate this suggestion. It is argued that 2 underinvestigated factors that could help explain variations in attitudes toward taxation are (1) how people come to feel that something is "theirs" and (2) how they define what they "need" for a good life. The effect of a growth-oriented society on relative poverty and on people's perceptions of whether they are experiencing "good" or "bad" times is discussed, as is the effect of psychological imperatives associated with a growth-oriented way of life on nuclear winter and ecological winter. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2002 APA, all rights reserved)

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Wachtel, P. L. (1991). Political Psychology and Economic Psychology. Political Psychology, 12(4), 747. https://doi.org/10.2307/3791555

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