Group Dominance, System Justification, and Hostile Classism: The Ideological Roots of the Perceived Socioeconomic Humanity Gap That Upholds the Income Gap

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dc.contributor.authorSainz, Mario
dc.contributor.authorJimenez-Moya, Gloria
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-20T20:08:16Z
dc.date.available2025-01-20T20:08:16Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstractPerceiving low-socioeconomic status (low-SES) groups as less human than high-SES groups contributes to justifying socioeconomic inequality. Despite this issue's relevance, previous research has not acknowledged the possible causes of this perceived humanity gap (differences in humanity between SES groups). In this project, we focus on analysing the possible influence of hierarchy-enhancing ideological variables on this gap. To do so, in a first correlational study (N = 765), we analyse the extent to which certain ideological variables predict the perceived humanity gap between low- and high-SES groups. Our results indicate that group dominance, system justification, and hostile classism are highly predictive of the humanity gap. In a second correlational study (N = 521) we found that the perceived humanity gap, the tendency to blame low-SES groups and praise high-SES groups for their economic standings, sequentially mediated the relationship among social dominance, system justification, and hostile classism with the support of social change policies. Finally, we manipulated each ideological variable in three equivalent studies (N = 631) to test its influence on the previous pattern of mediational results. The results confirmed the ideological variables' antecedent roles in the mediation analysis. Finally, we discuss the role of the ideological hierarchy variables in the maintenance of socioeconomic differences through (de)humanisation.
dc.description.funderAgencia Nacional de Investigacion y Desarrollo (ANID, Gobierno de Chile) through the programme FONDECYT Postdoctorado 2020
dc.fuente.origenWOS
dc.identifier.doi10.5334/irsp.753
dc.identifier.issn2397-8570
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.5334/irsp.753
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorio.uc.cl/handle/11534/91887
dc.identifier.wosidWOS:001021521300003
dc.issue.numero1
dc.language.isoen
dc.revistaInternational review of social psychology
dc.rightsacceso restringido
dc.subjectideology
dc.subjectsocial dominance
dc.subjectsystem justification
dc.subjectclassism
dc.subjectdehumanisation
dc.subjectpoverty
dc.subjectwealth
dc.subjectattributions
dc.subjectredistribution
dc.subject.ods10 Reduced Inequality
dc.subject.odspa10 Reducción de las desigualdades
dc.titleGroup Dominance, System Justification, and Hostile Classism: The Ideological Roots of the Perceived Socioeconomic Humanity Gap That Upholds the Income Gap
dc.typeartículo
dc.volumen36
sipa.indexWOS
sipa.trazabilidadWOS;2025-01-12
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