Systemic racism is a scientifically tractable phenomenon, urgent for cognitive scientists to
address. This tutorial reviews the built-in systems that undermine life opportunities and …

Historically, the field of psychology has focused on racial biases at an individual level,
considering the effects of various stimuli on individual racial attitudes and biases. This …

A leading psychologist explains why nearly all of us—including many of those who are
persecuted and powerless—so often defend the social systems that cause misery and …

Many organizations offer justifications for why diversity matters, that is, organizational
diversity cases. We investigated their content, prevalence, and consequences for …

A theory of system justification was proposed 25 years ago by Jost and Banaji (1994, Br. J.
Soc. Psychol., 33, 1) in the British Journal of Social Psychology to explain 'the participation …

The number of refugees across the globe is at an alarming high and is expected to continue
to rise for the foreseeable future. As a result, finding durable solutions for refugees has …

Many scholars and activists assume the public would be motivated to fight inequality if only
they knew the full extent of existing disparities. Ironically, exposure to extreme disparities …

Agentic female leaders risk social and economic penalties for behaving counter-
stereotypically (ie, backlash; Rudman, 1998), but what motivates prejudice against female …

Highlights•Heteronormative ideology is pervasive, persistent, and has negative
consequences.•It is prevalent among cis-hetero individuals as well as among LGBTQI+ …

I develop a theoretical framework that specifies the content underlying legitimacy judgments
and a model of the process by which these judgments develop and change. I argue that …