Enduring hardship reduces support for easing hardship for others, study suggests
Although intuition suggests that experiencing adversity will increase a person's willingness to help others going through similar hardships, surveys show that this is not always the case. For example, immigrants who struggled through arduous naturalization processes do not necessarily support making...
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Although intuition suggests that experiencing adversity will increase a person's willingness to help others going through similar hardships, surveys show that this is not always the case. For example, immigrants who struggled through arduous naturalization processes do not necessarily support making the path to citizenship easier for others, and those who escaped poverty through hard work often oppose redistributive policies.
Originally published at Phys.org
