TY - JOUR AU - Pereira, Cicero Roberto AU - Álvaro Estramiana, José Luis AU - Vala, Jorge PY - 2018 DO - 10.1177/0146167218771007 SN - 0146-1672 UR - https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/91662 T2 - Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin AB - This article analyzes the ego-defensive role played by legitimation, by examining the hypothesis that threat-based justifications attenuate the negative effect on an individual’s self-esteem caused by his or her becoming aware of his or her own... LA - eng M2 - 1473 PB - Sage KW - Discrimination KW - Legitimacy KW - Self-esteem KW - Threat perception KW - Egalitarianism TI - The Ego-Defensive Role of Legitimacy: How Threat-Based Justifications Protect the Self-Esteem of Discriminators TY - journal article VL - 44 ER -