Talk:System justification

message: Added link to this fascinating concept (that I have only just discovered) from Ideology - a very relevant one too I might add. Mattjs 09:43, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I added it to the See Also there also linked from Groupthink.  This article is no longer a stub - an unlinked one anyway.  Maybe I should now remove the stub banner also after having removed the earlier top "please add links" banner before? Mattjs 16:40, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Done! Still could be added to a bit more though but at least it has several important back-links now! Mattjs 16:57, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: OK, so far so good... maybe a few more suitable back-links can be discovered?  Fascinating article.  Added to List of cognitive biases Social Biases list: finally figured out where it fitted in! Mattjs 16:57, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
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message: I reverted the addition of the "see also" link to Systemantics by 4.227.234.26 because I don't see how it's relevant, other than they both use the word "system". If re-adding, please explain here how it is applicable to system justification. Justinfr (talk) 22:21, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Link to Systemantics

message: It's been suggested that System justification and Status quo bias be merged. I'm tentatively for a merge. However, it looks possible that they are used in different contexts. It might be (and it would be good if someone in the know lets us know) that "status quo bias" is used for something fairly concrete and easily identifiable: I like my chair better than another chair; I like my job better than another job; I like the $50 I have more than the chance to get $75. while "system justification" is used for more complex, broad statuses, more in a cognitive dissonance way: I like having an elected president instead of a prime minister because if it wasn't better, it wouldn't be that way.. If this characterization is right, then I'm not sure if merging is the right thing to do.Cretog8 (talk) 04:50, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Vote to keep separate. You've got part of it there, Cretog8, but there are further differences. For example, the status quo bias is cognitive, whereas system justification is seen as a motivational theory. That is, people only show system justification tendencies when it's personally relevant. That is, only Americans would justify the President, not Canadians or British. Likewise, Americans have no need to justify the Canadian Prime Minister's actions. Justinfr (talk) 12:33, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

text: Vote to keep separate also. May be the same things but from different angles as my learned college has pointed out. 122.148.173.37 (talk) 17:15, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: It's been two months and the consensus seems to be keep separate. I'm removing the tag. justinfr (talk) 21:15, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

text: Vote to keep separate again. Status quo bias is something quite different, although the two are related. SQB is generally describing the tendency to stick with the SQ--it is often based on inertia, lazyness, etc. SJT is about the active and overt (ot others) justification of the status quo--it focuses on how people explain the SQ (usually about inequality and distribution systems that favors one group over another), while SQB is about how people tend to have a preference for "same" which may be about why they don't change their health insurance when new members prefer something different than what they've got. They're quite different phenomena at different levels of cognition.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.237.66.113 (talk) 22:13, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge w/Status quo bias? 

message: Is this word in the second paragraph correct?  "...an acceptance of interiority among low-status groups..."  should it be inferiority?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.3.246.241 (talk) 20:51, 23 May 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi Anon. Nicely spotted, and thank you. I have just moved this to the appropriate location. Cheers Andrew (talk) 07:52, 26 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Feeling interior