SIMSA Articles

Research articles related to the social identity model of system attitudes.

2025

Bonetti, C., Bassi, S., Caricati, L., Giuffré, M., & Rossi, F. (2025). A qualitative study of system justification among Italian LGB activists. Psychology & Sexuality, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1080/19419899.2025.2487450

Caricati, L., Owuamalam, C. K., Bonettia, C., Rubin, M., & Spears, R. (2025). The relationship between social identification and system justification: a meta-analytic test of relevant moderators. European Journal of Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.70005

Owuamalam, C. K., Tan, C. M., Matos, A., Caricati, L., Bonetti, C., Rubin, M., Spears, R., Marinucci, M. (2025). Re-examining Buchel et al.’s (2021) test of the status legitimacy hypothesis. European Journal of Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.3173

2024

Caricati, L., Owuamalam, C. K., Bonetti, C., Moscato, G., & Monacelli, N. (2024). Positive temporal comparison facilitates a hope-induced system justification amongst women. Current Psychology, 43(29), 24252-24266. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-024-06077-3

2023

Owuamalam, C. K., Caricati, L., Matos, A. S., Spears, R., Rubin, M., Marinucci, M., & Ferrari, A. (2023). Further evidence that system justification among the disadvantaged is positively related to their superordinate identification. Acta Psychologia, 232, Article 103813. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2022.103813

Owuamalam, C., Tan, C. M., Caricati, L., Rubin, M., & Spears, R. (2022). Cultural group norms for harmony explain the puzzling negative association between objective status and system justification in Asia. European Journal of Social Psychology, 53(2), 245-267. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2901

Rubin, M., Owuamalam, C. K., Spears, R., & Caricati, L. (2023). A social identity model of system attitudes (SIMSA): Multiple explanations of system justification by the disadvantaged that do not depend on a separate system justification motive. European Review of Social Psychology, 34(2), 203-243. https://doi.org/10.1080/10463283.2022.2046422

Rubin, M., Owuamalam, C. K., Spears, R., & Caricati, L. (2023). Social identity explanations of system justification: Misconceptions, criticisms, and clarifications. European Review of Social Psychology, 34(2), 268-297. https://doi.org/10.1080/10463283.2023.2184578

2022

Caricati, L., Ferrari, A., & Owuamalam, C. K. (2022). Strongly identifying Italian women support their gender system because they accept their Italian way of doing things. Psicologia sociale, 17(3), 427-439. https://www.rivisteweb.it/doi/10.1482/105496

Owuamalam, C. K., Rubin, M., & Spears, R. (2022). Brexit and Trump: Which theory of social stasis and social change copes best with the new populism. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, Article 797139. http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.797139

2021

Caricati, L., Owuamalam, C. K., & Bonetti, C. (2021). Do superordinate identification and temporal/social comparisons independently predict citizens’ system trust? Evidence from a 40-nation survey. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, Article 745168. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.745168

Owuamalam, C. K., Caricati, L., Rubin, M., Matos, A. S., & Spears, R. (2021). Why do women support socio-economic systems that disadvantage them? A registered test of system justification- and social identity-inspired hope explanations. European Journal of Social Psychology, 51, 1073-1095. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2754

2020

Caricati, L., & Owuamalam, C. K. (2020). System justification among the disadvantaged: A triadic social stratification perspective. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, Article 40. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00040

Owuamalam, C. K., & Spears, R. (2020). Do humans possess an autonomous system justification motivation? A pupillometric test of the strong system justification thesis. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 86, Article 103897. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2019.103897

2019

Owuamalam, C. K., Rubin, M., & Spears, R. (2019a). Is a system motive really necessary to explain the system justification effect? A response to Jost (2019) and Jost, Badaan, Goudarzi, Hoffarth, and Mogami (2019). British Journal of Social Psychology, 58(2), 393-409. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12323

Owuamalam, C. K., Rubin, M., & Spears, R. (2019b). Revisiting 25 years of system motivation explanation for system justification from the perspective of social identity model of system attitudes. British Journal of Social Psychology, 58(2), 362-381. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12285

2018

Caricati, L. (2018). Considering intermediate‐status groups in intergroup hierarchies: A theory of triadic social stratification. Journal of Theoretical Social Psychology, 2(2), 58-66. https://doi.org/10.1002/jts5.19

Caricati, L., & Sollami, A. (2018). Contrasting explanations for status‐legitimacy effects based on system justification theory and social identity theory. Journal of Theoretical Social Psychology, 2(1), 13-25. https://doi.org/10.1002/jts5.15

Owuamalam, C. K., Rubin, M., & Spears, R. (2018a). Addressing evidential and theoretical inconsistencies in system-justification theory with a social identity model of system attitudes. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 27(2), 91-96. https://doi.org/10.1177/0963721417737136

Owuamalam, C. K., Rubin, M., & Spears, R. (2018b). A critical review of the (un) conscious basis for system‐supporting attitudes of the disadvantaged. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 12(11), Article e12419. https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12419

2017

Caricati, L., & Sollami, A. (2017). Perceived legitimacy follows in‐group interests: Evidence from intermediate‐status groups. British Journal of Social Psychology, 56(1), 197-206. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12174

Owuamalam, C. K., Rubin, M., Spears, R., & Weerabangsa, M. M. A. (2017). Why do people from low‐status groups support class systems that disadvantage them? A test of two mainstream explanations in Malaysia and Australia. Journal of Social Issues, 73(1), 80-98. https://doi.org/10.1111/josi.12205

2016

Owuamalam, C. K., Rubin, M., & Issmer, C. (2016a). Reactions to group devaluation and social inequality: A comparison of social identity and system justification predictions. Cogent Psychology, 3(1), Article 1188442. https://doi.org/10.1080/23311908.2016.1188442

Owuamalam, C. K., Rubin, M., & Spears, R. (2016b). The system justification conundrum: Re-examining the cognitive dissonance basis for system justification. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, Article 1889. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01889

Rubin, M. (2016). System dependency and social identity salience: A comment on Bonnot and Krauth-Gruber (2017). Figshare. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.4311884

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