System justification: How do we know it’s motivated?

By John T. Jost, I. Liviatan, J. Toorn, A. Ledgerwood, Anesu N. Mandisodza, Brian A. Nosek. 2010

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Subfields: Health, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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More than fair: Outcome dependence, system justification, and the perceived legitimacy of authority figures (2011, background): “System justification refers to a motivated, goal-directed process (Jost et al., 2010) that is more pronounced when (a) the system is threatened, (b) the system is perceived to be inevitable, and (c) one feels dependent on (or controlled by) the system (e.g., Jost & van der Toorn, in press).”
Bias in Favor of the Status Quo (2012, background): “The context was also independent of motives for justice and system justification, and speaks against rationalization as an alternative account (cf. Jost et al., 2010).”
Working for the System: Motivated Defense of Meritocratic Beliefs (2011, background): “…this defensive tendency should increase when system justifi cation motivation is high rather than low (e.g., after the legitimacy of the social system is challenged; Kay, Jost, & Young, 2005; Napier, Mandisodza, Andersen, & Jost, 2006; Ullrich & Cohrs, 2007; see Jost et al., 2010, for a review).”
Social psychological perspectives on the legitimation of social inequality: Past, present and future (2013, unknown): “Consistent with the proposition that people have fundamental system-justifying goals, threats to the social system motivate individuals to defend it (Jost et al., 2010).”
On Social Stability and Social Change (2011, background): “The psychological literature is now rife with experimental examples of this type of phenomenon, in which people evince a motivation to defend the legitimacy of their social systems and rationalize systemic injustice (e.g., Jost et al., 2010).”
Ideological Asymmetries and the Essence of Political Psychology (2017, background): “…conservatism and self-deception, measured in terms of agreement with items such as “My first impressions of people usually turn out to be right” and “The reason I vote is that my vote can make a difference” (Jost & Krochik, 2014; Jost et al., 2010; Wojcik, Hovasapian, Graham, Motyl, & Ditto, 2015).”
A sense of powerlessness fosters system justification: Implications for the legitimation of authority, hierarchy, and government (2015, unknown): “As a result, power inequalities may lead their lives to be less predictable, thereby intensifying the motivation to justify the system (Jost et al., 2010; Kay, Gaucher, Napier, Callan, & Laurin, 2008; Kay et al., 2009).”