In this paper, we provide a comprehensive model of individuals' needs for challenging the status hierarchy in groups. Drawing upon the justice literature, we contend that challenges to a group's status hierarchy are frequently based not merely on instrumental and relational reasons, but also, on...

Strategies, by definition, involve adopting different behaviors in different situations. Thus, it follows that in strategic interactions, inferences about counterparts would be based on how their behavior varies across situations. Yet, little research has examined inferences about counterparts...

This article provides a self-control analysis of mixed-motive interactions, including 2-person social dilemmas and bargaining encounters. We propose that mixed-motive interactions pose a self-control conflict between pursuing immediate benefits through competition and pursuing long-term benefits...

According to system justification theory, people are motivated to preserve the belief that existing social arrangements are fair, legitimate, and justifiable (Jost & Banaji, 1994). The strongest form of this hypothesis, which draws on the logic of cognitive dissonance theory, holds that people...