Aaron C. Kay

TL;DR: Exposure to complementary representations of the poor as happier and more honest than the rich would lead to increased support for the status quo and the Protestant work ethic may moderate the effects of stereotype exposure on explicit system justification.

TL;DR: This paper found that activating complementary stereotypes of men as agentic also increased system justification among men and women, but only when women's characteristics were associated with higher status, while activating communal or complementary gender stereotypes or benevolent or complementary (benevolent + hostile) sexist items increased support for the status quo among women.

TL;DR: The authors propose that the high levels of support often observed for governmental and religious systems can be explained, in part, as a means of coping with the threat posed by chronically or situationally fluctuating levels of perceived personal control.

TL;DR: The authors argue that people protect the belief in a controlled, nonrandom world by imbuing their social, physical, and metaphysical environments with order and structure when their sense of personal control is threatened.

TL;DR: For instance, the authors found that exposure to objects common to the domain of business (e.g., boardroom tables and briefcases) increased the cognitive accessibility of the construct of competition and increased the likelihood that an ambiguous social interaction would be perceived as less cooperative.