The bright side of pessimism: promoting wealth redistribution under (felt) economic hardship

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  • who: Silvia Galdi and collaborators from the Department of Psychology, University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Caserta, Italy, DPSS, University of have published the article: The bright side of pessimism: Promoting wealth redistribution under (felt) economic hardship, in the Journal: PLOS ONE of 30/07/2020
  • what: The authors investigated personal optimism and collective pessimism as psychological processes that contribute to hampering vs. promoting the demand for redistribution. There is a remarkable contrast between the abstract quest for reducing inequality and the failure to support concrete redistribution strategies such as progressive taxation , which is the focus . . .

     

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