The status-legitimacy hypothesis revisited: Ethnic-group differences in general and dimension-specific legitimacy

The status‐legitimacy hypothesis, which predicts that low‐status groups will legitimize inequality more than high‐status groups, has received inconsistent empirical support. To resolve this inconsistency, we hypothesized that low‐status groups would display enhanced legitimation only when evaluating the fairness of the specific hierarchy responsible for their disadvantage. In a New Zealand‐based probability sample ( N = 6,162), we found that...