A Compensatory Control Account of Meritocracy
Why are people motivated to support social systems that claim to distribute resources based on hard work and effort, even when those systems seem unfair? Recent research on compensatory control shows that lowered perceptions of personal control motivate a greater endorsement of external systems (e.g...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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PsychOpen
2014-12-01
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| Series: | Journal of Social and Political Psychology |
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| Online Access: | http://jspp.psychopen.eu/article/view/372 |