Placating the Powerless: Effects of Legitimate and Illegitimate Explanation on Affect, Memory, and Stereotyping

By Elizabeth L. Haines, John T. Jost. 2000

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Re‐Establishing the Social‐Class Order: Restorative Reactions against High‐Achieving, Low‐SES Pupils (2017, background): “We build on the literature showing that when the system hierarchy appears illegitimate, people misremember information about inequalities (Haines & Jost, 2000).”
More than fair: Outcome dependence, system justification, and the perceived legitimacy of authority figures (2011, methodology): “We further predict that this motivation will be particularly strong in settings in which people are dependent upon those authorities for desired resources, that is, when the authorities have power over them (Fiske & Berdahl, 2007; Haines & Jost, 2000; Kay & Zanna, 2009).”
8 Social Hierarchy: The Self‐Reinforcing Nature of Power and Status (2008, background): “In addition, the pervasive assumption that individuals at the top of formal hierarchies are more competent than individuals at the bottom (Haines & Jost, 2000 ; Humphrey, 1985 ; Sande et al, 1986 ) helps to maintain perceptions that hierarchies are fair.”
A sense of powerlessness fosters system justification: Implications for the legitimation of authority, hierarchy, and government (2015, unknown): “The powerless may, therefore, not only endorse systems that are inherently unequal but may also legitimize the standing of those occupying positions of higher power (Haines & Jost, 2000; van der Toorn et al., 2011).”
Normative Bias and Adaptive Challenges: A Relational Approach to Coalitional Psychology and a Critique of Terror Management Theory (2005, background): “Intimations of these early insights are resonant in recent research on the social cognition of intergroup relations (e.g. Haines and Jost, 2000; Hewstone and Lord, 1998; Lyons and Kashima, 2003).”
A Decade of System Justification Theory: Accumulated Evidence of Conscious and Unconscious Bolstering of the Status Quo (2004, background): “On the assumption that people would further rationalize the status quo by accepting and even bolstering weak justifications for inequality among groups, Haines and Jost (2000) argued:”
White Male Power and Privilege: The Relationship Between White Supremacy and Social Class (2017, background): “…classism (Liu, 2011), endorsing meritocratic beliefs led people to blame themselves for not being successful (Cozzarelli et al., 2001) and contributed to the perception that those in power are competent, even if there are no data to support their perception of competence (Haines & Jost, 2000).”
A quarter century of system justification theory: Questions, answers, criticisms, and societal applications (2018, unknown): “…Mandisodza, & Napier, 2007; Jost et al., 2010); (4) people engage in selective, biased information processing to reach system-supporting conclusions (Haines & Jost, 2000; Hennes, Ruisch, Feygina, Monteiro, & Jost, 2016; Ledgerwood, Mandisodza, Jost, & Pohl, 2011; van der Toorn et al., 2011);…”
Sour Grapes, Sweet Lemons, and the Anticipatory Rationalization of the Status Quo (2002, background): “It seems quite likely that decision-making authorities and those in power often benefit from the types of rationalizations displayed by our respondents (see also Haines & Jost, 2000; Jost et al., in press).”
Be Too Kind to a Woman, She’ll Feel Incompetent: Benevolent Sexism Shifts Self-construal and Autobiographical Memories Toward Incompetence (2010, background): “Shifting self-construal along such ideas and internalizing incompetence certainly contributes to women accepting and/or legitimizing their (personal) subordinated status (Haines and Jost 2000; Rudman and Heppen 2003).”