Blindspot Quotes

“Self-defeating consequences such as the ones we have been describing are psychologically intriguing, because they run counter to the assumption that people will always act in their own self-interest. John Jost, a psychologist at New York University, has suggested that, contrary to that expectation, people in fact are willing to sacrifice their self-interest for the sake of maintaining the existing social order. His experiments have shown that we do cognitive and emotional work to justify the hierarchies that make up the status quo, even when that means imposing costs on ourselves as well as on the groups to which we belong.”
― Mahzarin R. Banaji and Anthony G. Greenwald, Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People