System‐justifying behaviors: When feeling dependent on a system triggers gender stereotype‐consistent academic performance

Bonnot, Virginie; Krauth‐Gruber, Silvia

doi:10.1002/ejsp.2201

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“…But the positive intra personal benefits stand in contrast to the negative social consequences of justifying the system or defending the status quo. Well-documented negative consequences include stereotyping (Cichocka, Winiewski, Bilewicz, Bukowski, & Jost, 2015; Jost & Kay, 2005; Kay, Czapliński, & Jost, 2009; Kay & Jost, 2003), resistance to social change (Banfield, Kay, Cutright, Wu, & Fitzsimons, 2011; Kay, Gaucher, et al, 2009), greater endorsement of essentialism (Gaucher & Jost, 2014; Kray, Howland, Russell, & Jackman, 2017; Laurin, Shepherd, & Kay, 2010; Napier, 2014), information avoidance (Shepherd & Kay, 2012), self-objectification (Bonnot & Krauth-Gruber, 2016; Calogero & Jost, 2011), and applying harsh social sanctions against those who challenge the legitimacy of the system (Kay, Jost, & Young, 2005; Yeung, Kay, & Peach, 2014). To date, however, much less research has focused on how SJ processes may affect beliefs about different migrant classes (but see Cichocka et al, 2015; Fasel, Green, & Sarrasin, 2013; Hennes, Nam, Stern, & Jost, 2012).…”

Section: Sj and The Positivity Of Migrant Stereotypesmentioning

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Changes in the Positivity of Migrant Stereotype Content

Gaucher

Friesen

Neufeld

et al. 2017

Social Psychological and Personality Science

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Complementing well-established antecedents of anti-migrant opinion (e.g., threat), we investigated how system-sanctioned ideologies—that is, the collection of beliefs and values espoused by the government in power—are linked with migrant stereotypes. Using Canada as a case study, across three waves of national survey data ( N = 1,080), we found that system-sanctioned pro-migrant ideologies corresponded with (relatively) more positive migrant stereotype content (i.e., increases in perceived warmth and competence). Moreover, controlling for other political ideologies, increases in migrant stereotype positivity were linked to people’s motivation to justify their sociopolitical systems, suggesting that system-sanctioned ideologies may be especially likely to influence the positivity of migrant stereotypes when people are motivated to justify their sociopolitical systems.

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Section: Sj and The Positivity Of Migrant Stereotypesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Changes in the Positivity of Migrant Stereotype Content

Gaucher

Friesen

Neufeld

et al. 2017

Social Psychological and Personality Science

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“…Thus, it admits that particularly inegalitarian or insidious systems can paradoxically increase the motivation to perceive existing social arrangements as fair and legitimate, even if these systems are painful, humiliating or unfair [25]. In this wake, the literature indicates that the motivation to justify the system depends on a number of variables, including threat of the system, low sense of personal control, dependence and inevitability of the system [8]. For example, the study conducted by [40] report that feelings of helplessness increase motivation to support the system.…”

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Gender System Justification, Gender Differences and Attitudes Towards Women’ Victimization

Mouafo¹,

Nzekaih²

2021

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According to the literature, women are actively participating in the victimization of their group because of their positive attitude towards established societal norms. This thesis is supported within the theoretical framework of system justification, which defends the thesis that individuals, both men and women, are motivated to perceive existing social arrangements as fair and legitimate. In this sense, it is admitted that women who strongly justify the gender system are less motivated to adopt collective behaviors to improve or challenge the unfavorable position in which they are living. As a result, they are likely to accept or endorse the domestic or family abuse that they are suffering. The present research falls within this perspective. It examines the causal link between gender system justification, gender differences, and attitudes toward women' victimization. Thus, it formulates the hypothesis that gender difference does not moderate the relationship between willingness to justify the system and attitude towards women' victimization. Participants are 126 students of both sexes enrolled in different faculties of the University of Dschang (Cameroon). Their age varies between 15 and 41 years (M. = 21.41). They completed a questionnaire measuring, respectively, the willingness to justify the gender system and the attitude towards women' victimization. The data collected provides empirical support for the hypothesis of the study. They reveal that the relationship between gender system justification and attitudes towards women' victimization is positive for both women and men. These results reveal the different dispositions through which men and women participate mutually in maintaining asymmetrics gender relations.

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“…In contrast, when participants were made to feel dependent on the government, they were more likely to justify a government policy, but not a university policy. Other outcomes of perceived system dependency include system‐justifying memory biases (Bonnot & Krauth‐Gruber, ; Hennes, Ruisch, Feygina, Monteiro, & Jost, ), self‐stereotyping (Bonnot & Krauth‐Gruber, ), and avoidance of threatening information (Shepherd & Kay, ).…”

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System justification: Experimental evidence, its contextual nature, and implications for social change

Friesen

Laurin

Shepherd

et al. 2018

British J Social Psychol

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We review conceptual and empirical contributions to system justification theory over the last fifteen years, emphasizing the importance of an experimental approach and consideration of context. First, we review the indirect evidence of the system justification motive via complimentary stereotyping. Second, we describe injunctification as direct evidence of a tendency to view the extant status quo (the way things are) as the way things should be. Third, we elaborate on system justification's contextual nature and the circumstances, such as threat, dependence, inescapability, and system confidence, which are likely to elicit defensive bolstering of the status quo and motivated ignorance of critical social issues. Fourth, we describe how system justification theory can increase our understanding of both resistance to and acceptance of social change, as a change moves from proposed, to imminent, to established. Finally, we discuss how threatened systems shore up their authority by co-opting legitimacy from other sources, such as governments that draw on religious concepts, and the role of institutional-level factors in perpetuating the status quo.

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System‐justifying behaviors: When feeling dependent on a system triggers gender stereotype‐consistent academic performance

Cited by 15 publications

References 25 publications

Changes in the Positivity of Migrant Stereotype Content

Changes in the Positivity of Migrant Stereotype Content

Gender System Justification, Gender Differences and Attitudes Towards Women’ Victimization

System justification: Experimental evidence, its contextual nature, and implications for social change

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