{"id":229259,"date":"2026-01-18T10:33:42","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T16:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/new-research-reveals-a-psychological-shift-triggered-by-the-2008-great-recession"},"modified":"2026-01-18T10:33:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T16:33:42","slug":"new-research-reveals-a-psychological-shift-triggered-by-the-2008-great-recession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/new-research-reveals-a-psychological-shift-triggered-by-the-2008-great-recession","title":{"rendered":"New research reveals a psychological shift triggered by the 2008 Great Recession"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-research-reveals-a-psychological-shift-triggered-by-the-2008-great-recession.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New research suggests the 2008 Great Recession fundamentally altered how Americans perceive their social standing. An analysis of over 160,000 people indicates the economic shock caused a widespread decline in class identity that persisted long after the market recovered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research suggests the 2008 Great Recession fundamentally altered how Americans perceive their social standing. An analysis of over 160,000 people indicates the economic shock caused a widespread decline in class identity that persisted long after the market recovered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}