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System-justifying motives can lead to both the acceptance and the rejection of innate explanations for group differences

Eric Luis Uhlmann, Luke Lei Zhu, Victoria L. Brescoll and George E. Newman
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Eric Luis Uhlmann: GREGH - Groupement de Recherche et d'Etudes en Gestion à HEC - HEC Paris - Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Luke Lei Zhu: UBC - University of British Columbia [Canada]
Victoria L. Brescoll: Yale School of Management - Yale University [New Haven]
George E. Newman: Yale School of Management - Yale University [New Haven]

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Abstract: Recent experimental evidence indicates that intuitions about inherence and system justification are distinct psychological processes, and that the inherence heuristic supplies important explanatory frameworks that are accepted or rejected based on their consistency with one's motivation to justify the system.

Keywords: inherence; system justification (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-10
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Published in Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2014, 37 (5), pp.503-504. ⟨10.1017/S0140525X13003890⟩

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DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X13003890

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