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You view your own success as someone else's loss.
Belief in a zero-sum world leads people to interpret social and economic gains as fixed pots where one person's progress requires another's failure.
Studies show this mindset persists even when evidence demonstrates that mutual cooperation increases resources for everyone. It acts as a rigid mental shortcut to navigate competition, regardless of the objective reality.
You might be fighting for a bigger slice of a pie that is actually growing.
Where this comes from
- Study
- Rozycka-Tran et al., 2015
- What the check found
- Rozycka-Tran et al. (2015) developed the 'Belief in a Zero-Sum Game' scale and describe the belief as described in the claim. The provided reference text does not contain the source, so I have set quote to NONE.
- Confidence
- Solid, with limits
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