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3 System Justification Theory and Research: Implications for Law, Legal Advocacy, and Social Justice
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I. Situational Sources of Dispositionism I. Situational Sources of Dispositionism
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A. Interior Sources of Dispositionism A. Interior Sources of Dispositionism
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1. Perceptual limitations 1. Perceptual limitations
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2. Motives for reasons, closure, and simplicity 2. Motives for reasons, closure, and simplicity
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3. Motive for self-affirmation 3. Motive for self-affirmation
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4. Motive for group-affirmation 4. Motive for group-affirmation
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5. Motive for system-affirmation 5. Motive for system-affirmation
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6. A prediction 6. A prediction
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B. Exterior Sources of Dispositionism B. Exterior Sources of Dispositionism
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II. Attributional Tendencies Underlying the Liberal-Conservative Duality II. Attributional Tendencies Underlying the Liberal-Conservative Duality
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A. Using Labels: Liberal and Conservative A. Using Labels: Liberal and Conservative
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B. Interior Sources: Liberal and Conservative B. Interior Sources: Liberal and Conservative
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1. Motivated social cognition 1. Motivated social cognition
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2. Cognitive linguistics and conceptual metaphors 2. Cognitive linguistics and conceptual metaphors
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3. Deeper interior sources: genes 3. Deeper interior sources: genes
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C. Exterior Sources: Liberal and Conservative C. Exterior Sources: Liberal and Conservative
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D. Some Situationist Exceptions to the Dispositionist Rule D. Some Situationist Exceptions to the Dispositionist Rule
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III. Conclusion III. Conclusion
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Notes Notes
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9 Attributions and Ideologies: Two Divergent Visions of Human Behavior Behind Our Laws, Policies, and Theories
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Published:January 2012
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Abstract
This chapter describes a major rift extending across many important debates over our legal structures, policies, and theories of law. It argues that the divide is based, to a significant extent, on contrasting attributional tendencies: the less accurate dispositionist approach, which explains outcomes and behavior with reference to people’s dispositions (that is, stable personalities, preferences, and the like), and the more accurate situationist approach, which bases attributions of causation and responsibility on unseen influences within us and around us (that is, cognitive proclivities and structures and external environmental forces). As this chapter summarizes, research on the underlying motives and conceptual metaphors behind conservatism and liberalism help explain the vital connections between those attributional styles and political ideologies.
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