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标题：Social Inequality and System-Justifying Function of Compensatory Judgments in Person Perception
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作者：Naoya Yada ; Tomoko Ikegami
期刊名称：Psychology
印刷版ISSN：2152-7180
电子版ISSN：2152-7199
出版年度：2017
卷号：08
期号：12
页码：2031-2046
DOI：10.4236/psych.2017.812130
语种：English
出版社：Scientific Research Publishing
摘要：This study addressed the system-justifying function of compensatory judgments in person perception. We hypothesized that compensatory judgments of competence and warmth would create an illusion of equality, thereby fulfilling system-justifying motives in the economically unequal society. An experimental vignette study was conducted with 188 Japanese university students. Results indicated that evaluating target persons in a compensatory manner enhanced the perceived legitimacy of the current social system when participants were led to believe that a significant economic gap exists in Japan between the rich and the poor. This suggests that compensatory judgments serve to system justification through restoring the impaired belief in equality. We discussed the implications of our results for system justification theory and the literature on compensation effects in social judgments.
关键词：Person Perception;Competence;Warmth;Compensatory Judgments;System Justification;Economic Disparity