According to the original formulation of SJT (Jost and Banaji, 1994) and its subsequent refinements (e.g., Jostetal., 2004), this system-oriented motivation is ostensibly rooted in epistemic needs (e.g., to avoid uncertainty), existential needs (e.g., to reduce distress and threat), and relational needs (e.g., to embrace shared realities; Jost et al., 2008), which manifests most strongly when people’s yearnings for predictability and/or certainty within a system that they depend on, is strong (Jost, 2017).
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