The Germans are driven by the fear of a loss of prosperity. The sociologist Heinz Bude explains in an interview: Rightly so? And how should politicians react to this? Lutz Meier
Mr. Bude, when does fear for prosperity become a political problem? It is one of the most important and repeatedly confirmed findings of social psychology: avoiding loss is one of the main drivers of human behavior. You don’t like to lose anything. And this painful experience of loss is very difficult to offset by any gains on another level. This is a constant we must assume. Because the human emotional life is quite primitive.
