Mark RubinMar 10, 2023

People often support and justify social systems, even when those systems disadvantage them. But why?

In this new review article, we address this question using a social identity model of system attitudes (SIMSA).

Open access: https://doi.org/10.1080/10463283.2022.2046422

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A social identity model of system attitudes (SIMSA): Multiple explanations of system justification by the disadvantaged that do not depend on a separate system justification motive

System justification theory (SJT) assumes that social identity theory (SIT) cannot fully account for system justification by members of low-status (disadvantaged) groups. Contrary to this claim, we...

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Mark RubinDec 24, 2022

Why do people support economic, social, and political systems that disadvantage them?

Our new work, led by @chuma_owuam, finds further evidence that system justification by the disadvantaged can be explained in terms of people's social identification with superordinate groups (e.g., national identification).

Open access: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/366556944_Further_evidence_that_system_justification_amongst_the_disadvantaged_is_positively_related_to_superordinate_group_identification

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