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Time, Relations and Behaviors: Measuring the Transformative Power of Love-Based Community Life

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This paper is about measuring if and how vulnerable persons’ choices and attitudes change when they undergo a significant modification in their lives, as they begin experiencing care and support within durable relationships in love-based communities. Although there is anecdotal evidence that love-based experiences produce a restorative and rehabilitative impact on vulnerable people’s lives, we still lack adequate empirical frameworks for measuring the transformative power of such experiences on individual choices and attitudes. This paper proposes an innovative methodology for measuring personal transformation. We use a mix of behavioral economics experiments, textual analysis, and validated psychological tests to perform a longitudinal analysis of individuals in love-based communities. Changes in behavioral parameters and qualitative answers, observed over a significant period of love-based “treatment,” provide empirical evidence of the transformative impact on deep behavioral traits and attitudes (altruism, gratitude, sincerity, trust). This methodology, which significantly innovates on existing behavioral experiments and on conventional longitudinal studies and field experiments, has been applied to three ongoing case studies of love-based treatment: 1) formerly addicted people living in Italian rehab communities; 2) Californian convicts attending Guiding Rage into Power (GRIP) programs; 3) vulnerable schoolchildren experiencing Distance Support in Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo. This paper is meant to present our methodology to researchers interested in human and social development, hoping to receive from them comments, suggestions, and possibly interest in a collaboration on other case studies. Resumen Las teorías de la legitimidad democrática sostienen que la gente que cree que el gobierno se maneja bien y que representa sus intereses es probable que defienda el statu quo democrático. Sin embargo, la teoría sobre las relaciones entre principales y agentes predice que es probable que estos mismos grupos acepten que el ejecutivo adopte medidas que restrinjan la libertad de expresión o a los grupos de oposición a través formas delegativas de democracia. Los ciudadanos que se sienten representados por un poder ejecutivo afín y competente pueden estar dispuestos a delegar en él la autoridad para restringir a la oposición, aún a expensas de los derechos civiles. Existen datos de encuestas en 18 países de América Latina entre 2006 y 2012 que son consistentes con la hipótesis de principal y agente: es más probable que aquellos que votaron por el partido de gobierno en la elección previa o que perciben que la situación económica es sólida apoyen las restricciones de los derechos civiles de los opositores al régimen. Quienes resultan ganadores en contiendas políticas son particularmente proclives a exhibir bajos niveles de tolerancia en sistemas de partidos polarizados. De este modo, para prosperar, la democracia debe no solamente satisfacer a los derrotados en los procesos políticos y sociales sino encontrar formas de contener a los ganadores.

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