According to SJT, people are driven by a conscious or unconscious system-oriented need “to defend, bolster, and justify existing social, economic, and political institutions and arrangements” (Jost and Kay, 2010, p.1, 148) and this represents a further type of human motivation because it functions to support the status quo alone (Jost and Banaji, 1994, p.10).
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