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| Aaron C KaySummaryAffiliation: University of Waterloo Country: Canada Publications
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Religious belief as compensatory controlAaron C Kay
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Pers Soc Psychol Rev 14:37-48. 2010....- God and the government: testing a compensatory control mechanism for the support of external systemsAaron C Kay
Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada
J Pers Soc Psychol 95:18-35. 2008..The implications of these results for understanding why a high percentage of the population believes in the existence of God, and why people so often endorse and justify their socio-political systems, are discussed... - Inequality, discrimination, and the power of the status quo: Direct evidence for a motivation to see the way things are as the way they should beAaron C Kay
Psychology Department, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
J Pers Soc Psychol 97:421-34. 2009..Theoretical implications for system justification theory, stereotype formation, affirmative action, and the maintenance of inequality are discussed... 
Loving those who justify inequality: the effects of system threat on attraction to women who embody benevolent sexist idealsGrace P Lau
Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Psychol Sci 19:20-1. 2008- Divergent effects of activating thoughts of God on self-regulationKristin Laurin
Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
J Pers Soc Psychol 102:4-21. 2012..These findings provide the first experimental evidence that exposure to God influences goal pursuit and suggest that the ever-present cultural reminders of God can be both burden and benefit for self-regulation... - Evidence that gendered wording in job advertisements exists and sustains gender inequalityDanielle Gaucher
Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
J Pers Soc Psychol 101:109-28. 2011..The function of gendered wording in maintaining traditional gender divisions, implications for gender parity, and theoretical models of inequality are discussed... - Social disadvantage and the self-regulatory function of justice beliefsKristin Laurin
Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
J Pers Soc Psychol 100:149-71. 2011.... - In search of the silver lining: the justice motive fosters perceptions of benefits in the later lives of tragedy victimsJoanna E Anderson
Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo, 200 University Ave West, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1
Psychol Sci 21:1599-604. 2010..These results suggest that being motivated to see the world as just--a motivation traditionally associated with victim derogation--also leads people to perceive a "silver lining" to tragic events... - System justification and the defense of committed relationship ideologyMartin V Day
Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
J Pers Soc Psychol 101:291-306. 2011..Results revealed that when we measured (Study 6) or manipulated (Study 7) personal relationship identity rather than relationship ideology, effects also emerge for women... - Compensatory rationalizations and the resolution of everyday undeserved outcomesDanielle Gaucher
Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo, 200 University Ave, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1, Canada
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 36:109-18. 2010..These studies highlight an understudied means of justifying unfairness and elucidate the justice motive's power to affect people's construal of their social world... - On the perpetuation of ignorance: system dependence, system justification, and the motivated avoidance of sociopolitical informationSteven Shepherd
Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
J Pers Soc Psychol 102:264-80. 2012.... - Restricted emigration, system inescapability, and defense of the status quo: system-justifying consequences of restricted exit opportunitiesKristin Laurin
Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo, 200 University Ave, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1
Psychol Sci 21:1075-82. 2010..The importance of these two findings-the first experimental demonstration of the psychological consequences of restrictive emigration policies and the introduction of a novel psychological phenomenon-is discussed... 
Outsourcing punishment to God: beliefs in divine control reduce earthly punishmentKristin Laurin
Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, BC, Canada N2L 3G1
Proc Biol Sci 279:3272-81. 2012..Moreover, these effects are specifically owing to differences in people's perceptions that humans are responsible for punishing wrongdoers...- Victim derogation and victim enhancement as alternate routes to system justificationAaron C Kay
Department of Psychology, Jordan Hall Building 420, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
Psychol Sci 16:240-6. 2005..g., physical attractiveness) that are causally unrelated to those outcomes. We provide converging evidence using system-threat and stereotype-activation paradigms... - Complementary justice: effects of "poor but happy" and "poor but honest" stereotype exemplars on system justification and implicit activation of the justice motiveAaron C Kay
Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 85:823-37. 2003..Evidence also suggested that the Protestant work ethic may moderate the effects of stereotype exposure on explicit system justification (but not implicit activation)...