System Justification Among the Disadvantaged: A Triadic Social Stratification Perspective

摘要

f several corporations and financial institutions that ostensibly served the economic interests of thewealthy 1% more than it did for the poorer 99%. Although there were pockets of resistance by the99% (e.g., the occupy Wall Street movement), working- and middle-class people were surprisinglyless supportive of economic redistributive policies and in favor of the prevailing economic orderthat squeezed the prospects of the less affluent more than it did the wealthy (Kuziemko et al., 2014;Jost, 2017; see also García-Sánchez et al., 2019). Elsewhere in the social psychological literature,research has documented a similar orientation amongst society’s disadvantaged: the tendency toattribute more positive stereotypes/traits to privileged members of society, and often at the expenseof their own group (the so-called “outgroup favoritism effect” Cichocka et al., 2015; Hoffarth andJost, 2017; Samson, 2018).