Complementary Justice: Effects of "Poor but Happy" and "Poor but Honest" Stereotype Exemplars on System Justification and Implicit Activation of the Justice Motive

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 85, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 823-837

  Kay, Aaron C ^a   Jost, John T ^b,c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; DEFENSE MECHANISM; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; MALE; PERCEPTION; POVERTY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; SOCIAL JUSTICE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STUDENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DEFENSE MECHANISMS; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HUMANS; MALE; POVERTY; RATIONALIZATION; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; SOCIAL JUSTICE; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; SOCIAL VALUES; STEREOTYPING; STUDENTS;

EID: 0242508474     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.85.5.823     Document Type: Article

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