Decius wrote:
I'd like to read more about that paper and less about correlation between racism and redstatism.

The conference being reported on in the article is the 2006 Annual Conference of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.

The paper is entitled "How Cultural Worldviews Shape Perceptions Of And Responses To Prejudice". It is not available on Brenda Major's web page. The SPSP's publications are published by Sage Publications.

In the December 2005 issue of the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Brenda Major published an article entitled, "System-Justifying Beliefs and Psychological Well-Being: The Roles of Group Status and Identity." The abstract reads as follows:

This research examined the relationship between endorsing system-justifying beliefs and psychological well-being among individuals fromethnic groups that vary in social status. Systemjustifying beliefs are beliefs that imply that status in society is fair, deserved, and merited; examples of system-justifying beliefs in the United States include the beliefs that hard work pays off and that anyone can get ahead regardless of their group membership. We found that endorsing system-justifying beliefs was negatively related to psychological well-being among members of lowstatus groups who were highly identified with their group but positively related to well-being among members of low-status groups who were not highly identified with their ethnic group. In addition, we found that endorsing system-justifying beliefs was positively related to well-being among members of high-status groups, especially among members of high-status groups who were highly identified with the group.

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