{"id":499,"date":"2011-10-12T14:44:42","date_gmt":"2011-10-12T19:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harrowedhalls.com\/wordpress\/?p=499"},"modified":"2011-10-12T21:39:51","modified_gmt":"2011-10-13T02:39:51","slug":"last-place-aversion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.harrowedhalls.com\/wordpress\/?p=499","title":{"rendered":"Last Place Aversion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yep. Our \u00e2\u20ac\u0153If you can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be first, don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be last\u00e2\u20ac\u009d mantra apparently has a name: \u00c2\u00a0Last Place Aversion.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Our work suggests that people exhibit a fundamental loathing for being near or in last place \u00e2\u20ac\u201c what we call \u00e2\u20ac\u0153last place aversion.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d This fear can lead people near the bottom of the <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">income <\/span>[point]\u00c2\u00a0 distribution to oppose [point] redistribution because it might allow people at the very bottom to catch up with them or even leapfrog past them.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article.cfm?id=occupy-wall-street-psychology\">http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article.cfm?id=occupy-wall-street-psychology<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Or otherwise known as &#8220;Harrison&#8217;s Law&#8221;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yep. Our \u00e2\u20ac\u0153If you can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be first, don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be last\u00e2\u20ac\u009d mantra apparently has a name: \u00c2\u00a0Last Place Aversion. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Our work suggests that people exhibit a fundamental loathing for being near or in last place \u00e2\u20ac\u201c what we call \u00e2\u20ac\u0153last place aversion.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d This fear can lead people near the bottom of the income [point]\u00c2\u00a0 distribution to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.harrowedhalls.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.harrowedhalls.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.harrowedhalls.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrowedhalls.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrowedhalls.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=499"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrowedhalls.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":502,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrowedhalls.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions\/502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.harrowedhalls.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrowedhalls.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrowedhalls.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}