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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"system justification theory"”.
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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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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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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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"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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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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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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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). …