From: The Washington Post
The psychology of uncertainty, repeal and the individual mandate
The Washington Post:
Eric Horowitz flags new research in the journal Psychological Science that sheds some light on why the uncertainty around the health reform law’s fate may be making Americans more resistant to its individual mandate, the requirement to purchase health insurance.
Psychologists Kristin Laurin, Aaron Kay and Gavin Fitzsimmons note that people tend to react to laws restricting their freedom in two different ways. We either rationalize the new restriction, telling ourselves to make the best of it, or we resist, responding negatively to new limits on freedom. That leads these researchers to ask: Why do some restrictions get met with rationalization, and others with resistance?
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