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100816142129.htm
People Who Cannot Escape a System Are Likely to Defend the Status Quo, Study
Finds
ScienceDaily (Aug. 16, 2010) The freedom of emigration at will is
internationally recognized as a human right. But, in practice, emigration is
often restricted, whether by policy or by poverty. A new study published in
Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science,
finds that people who are told that their right to emigrate will be restricted
have what could be considered a strange reaction: they respond by defending
their country's system.
The researchers suspected that people who are under an oppressive regime might
try to see their situation in the best light possible. "When you're stuck with
something, one tendency is to make peace with it and try to see it in as much
of a positive light as you can," says Kristin Laurin, who cowrote the study
with Steven Shepherd and Aaron C. Kay at the University of Waterloo. But it was
also possible to have the opposite reaction: "Other times, when you're told
that you can't have something, that makes you want it more."
In one experiment for the study, 28 Canadian women read a paragraph about
freedom of emigration from Canada. Half read a paragraph saying that moving out
of Canada would become easier in the next few years, and the other half read a
paragraph saying that this would become more difficult. Then the women read
another paragraph that described gender inequality in Canada -- for example,
that "men's starting salaries are a full 20% higher than women's starting
salaries." The women who read that emigration would become harder were less
likely to attribute that gender inequality to a systemic problem with their
country. The researchers interpret that to mean that people who feel trapped in
their country are more likely to try to justify the country's system and
rationalize away its dissatisfactory elements.
"We focused on policies, but there are a lot of other reasons that make it hard
for people to leave. One of these is poverty," says Laurin. "It's a depressing
thought that the poor, the very people who are put in the worst position by a
particular system, might be the ones that are the most motivated to defend that
system."
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Journal Reference:
1. Kristin Laurin, Steven Shepherd, Aaron C. Kay. Restricted Emigration,
System Inescapability, and Defense of the Status Quo: System-Justifying
Consequences of Restricted Exit Opportunities. Psychological Science, 2010;
DOI: 10.1177/0956797610375448
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