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

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2014

Eric Luis Uhlmann ,
Luke Zhu ,
Victoria L. Brescoll  and
George E. Newman
Eric Luis Uhlmann
Affiliation:
HEC Paris – School of Management, Management and Human Resources Department, 78351 Jouy-en-Josas, France. eric.luis.uhlmann@gmail.com http://www.socialjudgments.com
Luke Zhu
Affiliation:
Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6Z 3B7, Canada. luke.zhu@sauder.ubc.ca http://www.sauder.ubc.ca/Programs/PhD_in_Business_Administration/Current_Students/Zhu_Luke
Victoria L. Brescoll
Affiliation:
School of Management, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511. victoria.brescoll@yale.edu http://som.yale.edu/victoria-l-brescoll george.newman@yale.edu http://som.yale.edu/george-e-newman
George E. Newman
Affiliation:
School of Management, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511. victoria.brescoll@yale.edu http://som.yale.edu/victoria-l-brescoll george.newman@yale.edu http://som.yale.edu/george-e-newman
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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.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 37 , Issue 5 , October 2014 , pp. 503 - 504
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2014 

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