{"id":1872,"date":"2025-02-06T13:15:03","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T12:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/babel.isa.uma.es\/kipr\/?p=1872"},"modified":"2025-02-06T13:15:03","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T12:15:03","slug":"on-the-reasons-of-the-pervasiveness-of-the-myth-of-meritocracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/babel.isa.uma.es\/kipr\/?p=1872","title":{"rendered":"On the reasons of the pervasiveness of the myth of meritocracy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ian R. Hadden, C\u00e9line Darnon, Lewis Doyle, Matthew J. Easterbrook, S\u00e9bastien Goudeau, Andrei Cimpian, <strong>Why the belief in meritocracy is so pervasive,<\/strong> Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Volume 29, Issue 2, 2025, Pages 101-104, DOI: <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.tics.2024.12.008\">10.1016\/j.tics.2024.12.008<\/a>.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>People worldwide tend to believe that their societies are more meritocratic than they actually are. We propose the belief in meritocracy is widespread because it is rooted in simple, seemingly obvious causal\u2013explanatory intuitions. Our proposal suggests solutions for debunking the myth of meritocracy and increasing support for equity-oriented policies.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ian R. Hadden, C\u00e9line Darnon, Lewis Doyle, Matthew J. Easterbrook, S\u00e9bastien Goudeau, Andrei Cimpian, Why the belief in meritocracy is <span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/babel.isa.uma.es\/kipr\/?p=1872\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Read More &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[570],"class_list":["post-1872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cognitive-sciences","tag-meritocracy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/babel.isa.uma.es\/kipr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/babel.isa.uma.es\/kipr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/babel.isa.uma.es\/kipr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/babel.isa.uma.es\/kipr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/babel.isa.uma.es\/kipr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/babel.isa.uma.es\/kipr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1873,"href":"https:\/\/babel.isa.uma.es\/kipr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872\/revisions\/1873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/babel.isa.uma.es\/kipr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/babel.isa.uma.es\/kipr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/babel.isa.uma.es\/kipr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}