We examined whether women's support for gender-based pay inequality (ie, system
justification) might be explained by hope. In particular, we considered whether such hope is …

Why do women support social and economic arrangements that disadvantage them?
System justification theory (SJT) proposes that an autonomous system‐level motive is …

In a cross-sectional survey, we measured the extent to which 256 Italian women,(a)
identified with Italy,(b) justified broader systems in Italy,(c) justified their gender system, and …

Previous research on system justification theory suggests that beliefs that rationalize
inequalities are related to subjective well-being. We examine how “complementary”(hostile …

Research based on system justification theory has shown that women's self-perceptions
may be altered by the motivation to justify the system and its inequalities. Self-perceptions …

This chapter focuses on recent empirical work that sheds new light on the process of system
justification by focusing on a particular type of system-justifying belief, namely, naturalistic …

Why do women sometimes support systems of male privilege that clearly undercut the
interests of their gender group? According to some explanations from the social identity …

Although epistemic needs motivate the endorsement of system-justifying beliefs, few studies
have investigated moderators of this association. Here, we argue that because being the …

System justification theory (SJT) posits that people are motivated to believe that the social
system they live in is fair, desirable, and how it should be, especially in contexts that …

It has been shown that disadvantaged groups who endorse system‐justifying beliefs tend to
internalize their state of inferiority by expressing ingroup derogation and opposing collective …