Does status matter? Testing hypotheses from strong form of System Justification Theory

Revue Internationale de Psychologie Sociale

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 67-95

  Caricati, Luca ^a   Lorenzi Cioldi, Fabio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Ideology; Relative deprivation; Social inequality; Status differences; System justification

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887972910     PISSN: 0992986X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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