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- Title
Why does the "mental shotgun" fire system-justifying bullets?
- Authors
Gaucher, Danielle; Jost, John T.
- Abstract
We suggest that people privilege explanations relying on inherent rather than contingent factors not only because of an innate cognitive tendency to monitor reality, but because doing so satisfies the desire to perceive the societal status quo as legitimate. In support, we describe experimental studies linking the activation of system justification motivation to the endorsement of inherence-based (essentialist) explanations
- Subjects
COGNITIVE psychology; ESSENTIALISM (Philosophy); DEVELOPMENTAL psychology; HEURISTIC programming; SOCIOLOGY; EDUCATION
- Publication
Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 2014, Vol 37, Issue 5, p489
- ISSN
0140-525X
- Publication type
Opinion
- DOI
10.1017/S0140525X13003725