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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"system justification"”.
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Challenging the Status Quo: System Justification Theory and Impressions of Activists
… are for a cause and people who are against it. System justification motivations (SJM) serve as critical underlying factors in the maintenance of our current social system and the reception of challenges to the status quo (e.g., Jost & Banaji, 1994; Jost, Banaji, & Nosek, 2004). The current …
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System Justification and Normative Influence: Jury Decision-Making in a Police Shooting Trial
… to conform to the group) was related to jurors' system justification (SJS) beliefs (i.e., beliefs that justify a racially disparaging societal status quo) and time during the deliberation of a mock trial. Given the traumatic colonial context that exists between Indigenous communities in Canada …
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Endorsement of Abstract Ideals versus Actual Outcomes of American Ideologies: Nuances of System Justification Theory
… the American dream if only they work hard? System justification theory asserts that people rationalize the status quo and perceive it as inevitable, fair, and just. Moreover, the theory claims that people sometimes uphold the system, even when doing so may pose a threat to individual and …
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Moral Outrage Moderates the Relationships Between System Perception, System Justification, and Intergroup Helping Behavior: A Multigroup Approach
… for maintaining status occurs as a function of system justification beliefs, such that the status quo should be defended, and social change avoided (Jost, 2018). Prosocial emotions were proposed as a way to disrupt this justification process (Thomas et al., 2009; Wakslak et al., 2007). …
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"YOU BITCH! YOU SLUT! YOU WHORE!": GENDER-SPECIFIC SYSTEM JUSTIFICATION AS A MEDIATOR OF WOMEN'S SELF-SEXUALIZATION AND BENEVOLENT SEXISM, ENVIRONMENTAL MASTERY, AND GENERAL POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE AFFECT
This study explored how system-justification theory may explain the mixed psychological outcomes of women's self-sexualization. Specifically, it was hypothesized that gender-specific system justification would mediate the relationships between women's intentions regarding and enjoyment of …
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Normalizing Violence Against Women: What Motivates People to Justify the Gender System?
… to these victims, act to reinforce the gender system. The gender system is a network of practices meant to (1) differentiate men and women as two distinct categories and (2) organize and justify social inequalities based on these differences. People tend to react negatively if someone or …
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Justifying the Inevitable: How Observers of Mistreatment Can Perpetuate Mistreatment
… Importantly, organizations represent social systems: they provide structure, create predictability, and offer resources to its employees. Attributes of the organizational system may guide observers’ reactions to mistreatment. Drawing on system justification theory (Jost & Banaji, 1994), the …
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Barriers to Social Change: Neoliberalism and the Justification of the Status-Quo among Low-Income African Americans
… it seeks to understand the connections between system justification theory and the influence of neoliberalism on individual-level behavior. In-depth interviews of 8 low-income African Americans living in the Kansas City metro area were analyzed in this study. Interview questions assessed how …
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The Right Thing to Do: Moral Conviction Associated with Reducing Economic Inequality Predicts Support for Redistributive Policies
… socio-economic inequality and economic system justification (i.e., other critical predictors of support for redistribution). Furthermore, this relationship was mediated by empathic concern (with mixed results) and structural causal attributions. Finally, Study 4 showed how moral …
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Adding Insult to Injury: How Neoliberal Ideology Convinces the Disadvantaged to Blame Themselves for Poor Health
… through their personal choices, ignoring the systemic barriers that many people face to make healthy decisions. Tying Bourdieu’s theory of class distinction, system justification, and neoliberal theory, I conducted and analyzed 11 qualitative, semi-structured interviews with Americans of …
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Pro-Black, Pro-White, or Proactive: Examining Predictors of Implicit Racial Bias in Black Participants
… bias. In Study 3, explicit racial attitudes, system justification and individual versus collective success orientation were also significantly correlated with implicit racial bias as measured by the Affective Misattribution Procedure (AMP; Payne et al., 2005). As expected, however, ideologies …
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He is not one of U.S.: partisanship, perceptions of anti-Americanism & their consequences for democracy
… psychological and political orientations—system justification, populism, affective polarization, and social-dominance orientation—consistently increase perceived threat to national identity, revealing patterns in who is likely to perceive anti-Americanism. I further demonstrate that …
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An early-emerging explanatory heuristic underlies the tendency to defend the status quo
People often view their sociopolitical systems as fair and natural despite glaring biases in their structure. Current theories of this striking phenomenon trace its roots to a motivation to alleviate anxiety and uncertainty. Here, we propose an alternative origin for these system-endorsing …
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The psychological impact of perceiving the gender status quo as legitimate
… Overall, these findings suggest that belief systems supporting the status quo can provide a palliative psychological effect through impacting people’s beliefs about whether they are targets of discrimination, and that this can occur for members of both advantaged and disadvantaged groups. …
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Reclaiming voice through epistemic disobedience: a Black female anti-racist consultant perspective
… book The Anti-Racist Organization: Dismantling Systemic Racism in the Workplace published in 2022, and the evolution of my advisory firm, HR rewired, founded in 2019 – to interrogate the persistence of systemic anti-Black racism in workplace environments. Through these works, the research …
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Alien, Illegal, Undocumented: Labeling, Context, and Worldview in the Immigration Debate and in the Lives of Undocumented Youth
… immigrants scale, followed by the General System Justification scale, and finally a self-reported social label exposure measure. Participants in Study II were asked to generate definitions for the labels ‘illegal’ and ‘undocumented’. Participants in Study III were asked about their life …