Ideological self-identification predicts attitudes toward status quo versus reform groups

Evidence

Conover and Feldman demonstrate, for example, that self-identified conservatives have more positive attitudes than do liberals toward groups that uphold the status quo, serve social control functions, and are procapitalist. Self-identified liberals, by contrast, have more positive attitudes than do conservatives toward groups that question the status quo and seek social reform. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 1817

Categorization

• XREF: Empirical confirmation of system justification theory’s prediction that conservatives favor status-quo-preserving groups.