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

Eric Luis Uhlmann (1) , Luke Lei Zhu (2) , Victoria L. Brescoll (3) , George E. Newman (3)

1 GREGH - Groupement de Recherche et d'Etudes en Gestion à HEC
2 UBC - University of British Columbia
3 Yale School of Management

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

Domains: Humanities and Social Sciences; Business administration; Management and Human Resources

Eric Luis Uhlmann, Luke Lei Zhu, Victoria L. Brescoll, George E. Newman. System-justifying motives can lead to both the acceptance and the rejection of innate explanations for group differences. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2014, 37 (5), pp.503-504. ⟨10.1017/S0140525X13003890⟩. ⟨hal-01099627⟩