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Why social change is so excruciatingly difficult

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The Strength of System Justification, Motivation, and Disposition

System justification is not a set quantity. It's not some standard unit that exists in all people and places the same, you know, shift this way based on circumstances and disposition. So what kinds of circumstances are likely to elicit system justification? I think there's a general picture that's emerging that's consistent with what you and I've been talking about with regard to uncertainty and threat. And events that happen or situations that just happen to you or me or events that are big enough situations that they are happening to all of us all at the same time. Highly threatening circumstances such as terrorist attacks or war or an economic crisis. These are things that put most of us into a state where we want

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