title: Why men (and women) do and don't rebel: effects of system justification on willingness to protest.
abstract: Three studies examined the hypothesis that system justification is negatively associated with collective protest against ingroup disadvantage. Effects of uncertainty salience, ingroup identification, and disruptive versus nondisruptive protest were also investigated. In Study 1, college students who were exposed to an uncertainty salience manipulation and who scored higher on system justification were less likely to protest against the governmental bailout of Wall Street. In Study 2, May Day protesters in Greece who were primed with a system-justifying stereotype exhibited less group-based anger and willingness to protest. In Study 3, members of a British teachers union who were primed with a "system-rejecting" mind-set exhibited decreased system justification and increased willingness to protest. The effect of system justification on nondisruptive protest was mediated by group-based anger. Across very different contexts, measures, and methods, the results reveal that, even among political activists, system justification plays a significant role in undermining willingness to protest.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, New York University, 6 Washington Place, Room 578, New York, NY 10003-6634, USA. john.jost@nyu.edu
authors.forename: John T
authors.initials: JT
authors.lastname: Jost
authors.forename: Vagelis
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Chaikalis-Petritsis
authors.forename: Dominic
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Abrams
authors.forename: Jim
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Sidanius
authors.forename: Jojanneke
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: van der Toorn
authors.forename: Christopher
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Bratt
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000786:Anger; D002960:Civil Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006115:Greece; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011057:Politics; D012933:Social Identification; D012935:Social Justice / Q000523:psychology*; D006113:United Kingdom; D014481:United States