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System Dependency and Social Identity Salience: A Comment on Bonnot and Krauth-Gruber (2017)
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journal contribution
posted on 2016-12-13, 01:54 authored by Mark RubinMark RubinThis brief commentary discusses the
following paper: Bonnot, V., & Krauth‐Gruber, S. (2017). System‐justifying behaviors: When feeling dependent on a system triggers
gender stereotype‐consistent
academic performance. European Journal of Social Psychology. doi: 10.1002/ejsp.2201 It is proposed
that (1) manipulations of system dependency may also manipulate social identity
salience, (2) measures of system dependency may also measure social identity
salience, and consequently that (3) social identity salience can explain the
effects of system dependency. This
proposal is consistent with recent claims that personal and/or group motives
(personal and/or social identity) can explain system justification effects more
parsimoniously than system justification theory’s proposition that these
effects are motivated by a separate system justification motive.