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- Beliefs work like this, too. In a 1986 paper titled “Beliefs are like possessions,” the Yale psychologist and political scientist Robert Abelson described this idea.
- Affluent Americans promoted defunding policies, nurtured an attitude of disdain toward police, helped to increase crime rates, and then hired private security.