Group Status and Feelings of Personal Entitlement: The Roles of Social Comparison and System-Justifying Beliefs

Social and Psychological Bases of Ideology and System Justification

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  O'Brien, Laurie T ^a   Major, Brenda ^b  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bias; Entitlement; Inequality; Social comparison processes; Status; System justification

Indexed keywords

EID: 78751480957     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195320916.003.017     Document Type: Chapter

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