Political conservatism as motivated social cognitionJohn T Jost
Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, California 94305, USA
Psychol Bull 129:339-75. 2003
..18); and self-esteem (-.09). The core ideology of conservatism stresses resistance to change and justification of inequality and is motivated by needs that vary situationally and dispositionally to manage uncertainty and threat...
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)...
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...
Moral outrage mediates the dampening effect of system justification on support for redistributive social policiesCheryl J Wakslak
New York University, New York, NY 10003 6634, USA
Psychol Sci 18:267-74. 2007
..Thus, system-justifying ideology appears to undercut the redistribution of social and economic resources by alleviating moral outrage...
Why are conservatives happier than liberals?Jaime L Napier
Department of Psychology, New York University, New York, NY 10003 6634, USA
Psychol Sci 19:565-72. 2008
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The end of the end of ideologyJohn T Jost
Department of Psychology, New York University, New York, NY 10003, USA
Am Psychol 61:651-70. 2006
..A psychological analysis is also useful for understanding the political divide between "red states" and "blue states."..
Exposure to benevolent sexism and complementary gender stereotypes: consequences for specific and diffuse forms of system justificationJohn T Jost
Department of Psychology, New York University, New York, NY 10003, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 88:498-509. 2005
..Results suggest that complementary stereotypes psychologically offset the one-sided advantage of any single group and contribute to an image of society in which everyone benefits through a balanced dispersion of benefits...
Threatened by the unexpected: physiological responses during social interactions with expectancy-violating partnersWendy Berry Mendes
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 92:698-716. 2007
..Implications for decreasing prejudicial responses via uncertainty reduction are discussed...
Are needs to manage uncertainty and threat associated with political conservatism or ideological extremity?John T Jost
Department of Psychology, New York University, New York, NY 10003 6634, USA
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 33:989-1007. 2007
..Implications for understanding the epistemic and existential bases of political orientation are discussed...
Neurocognitive correlates of liberalism and conservatismDavid M Amodio
Department of Psychology, New York University, 6 Washington Place, New York, New York 10003, USA
Nat Neurosci 10:1246-7. 2007
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