Perpetuating One's Own Disadvantage: Intergroup Contact Enables the Ideological Legitimation of Inequality

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1391-1403

  Sengupta, Nikhil K ^a   Sibley, Chris G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

ideology; intergroup contact; meritocracy; policy preferences; system justification

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; IDEOLOGY; INTERGROUP CONTACT; MALE; MERITOCRACY; MIDDLE AGED; NEW ZEALAND; POLICY PREFERENCES; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; SYSTEM JUSTIFICATION; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

IDEOLOGY; INTERGROUP CONTACT; MERITOCRACY; POLICY PREFERENCES; SYSTEM JUSTIFICATION;

ADULT; FEMALE; HIERARCHY, SOCIAL; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW ZEALAND; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS;

EID: 84885588429     PISSN: 01461672     EISSN: 15527433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0146167213497593     Document Type: Article

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