From: The Economic Times
People rebel when they feel there is a way out
The Economic Times:
People stuck with a rule are more likely to tolerate it than people who think the rule isn’t definite. And this could explain many things, from unrequited love to the uprisings in the Arab world.
When people were living under dictatorships in the Arab world with power that appeared to be absolute, they may have been comfortable with it, said Kristin Laurin of the University of Waterloo who led the study, the journal Psychological Science reports.
But once Tunisia’s president fled, citizens of neighbouring countries realised that their governments weren’t as absolute as they seemed – and they could have dropped whatever rationalisations they were using to make it possible to live under an authoritarian regime.
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