Abstract System justification is a social psychology term of art that designates any
motivational tendency to defend, bolster, or rationalize existing social, economic, and
political arrangements. It is conceptualized as a response tendency possessed by many, ...

Most theories in social and political psychology stress self-interest, intergroup conflict,
ethnocentrism, homophily, ingroup bias, outgroup antipathy, dominance, and resistance.
System justification theory is influenced by these perspectives—including social identity ...

Both law and legal advocacy necessarily rest on assumptions about human motivation and
behavior. Many of those assumptions are wrong. Just as scientific experimentation
determined that Aristotle's physics did not accurately describe the behavior of objects, ...

And in the moment you are born since you don't know any better, every stick and stone and
every face is white, and since you have not yet seen a mirror, you suppose that you are, too.
It comes as a great shock around the age of 5 or 6 or 7 to discover that the flag to which ...

... Abstract. According to system justification theory, there is a psychological motive to defend and
justify the status quo. ... A decade of system justification theory: Accumulated evidence of conscious
and unconscious bolstering of the status quo. Political Psychology , 25, 881–919. ...

... In this chapter, we trace the historical and intellectual origins of system justification
theory, summarise the basic assumptions of the theory, and derive 18 specific
hypotheses from a system justification perspective. We review ...

... Abstract According to system justification theory, people are motivated to preserve
the belief that existing social arrangements are fair, legitimate, justifiable, and
necessary. The strongest ... order. System Justification Theory The ...

... System Justifying Consequences of Complementary Stereotypes Like just world theory, system
justification theory emphasizes the human propensity to perceive existing social arrangements
as fair, legitimate, and justified (Jost & Banaji, 1994; Jost et al., 2001). ...

... According to system justification theory (eg, Jost & Banaji, 1994; Jost & Hunyady, 2002),
stereotypes serve not only to ratio- nalize specific aspects of intergroup relations (eg, Tajfel, 1981)
but also to bolster the overall sense that the system as a whole is fair, legitimate, and ...

... According to system justification theory, members of low status groups are faced generally with
an incompati- bility between group justification motives to favor mem- bers of their own group
and system justification motives to accept the legitimacy of the status quo and to favor ...