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Aaron C. Kay is affiliated with Duke University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on social sciences with an emphasis on sociology, political science, and social psychology. Their work covers various subfields including cognitive neuroscience, gender studies, and political science and international relations.

The scientist's main topics of research encompass social and intergroup psychology, psychology of moral and emotional judgment, cultural differences and values, death anxiety and social exclusion, social and cultural dynamics, gender diversity and inequality, and religion, spirituality, and psychology.

Recent papers authored by Aaron C. Kay include:

  • "Megastudy testing 25 treatments to reduce antidemocratic attitudes and partisan animosity" (2024, Science)
  • "The Challenges of Military Veterans in Their Transition to the Workplace: A Call for Integrating Basic and Applied Psychological Science" (2020, Perspectives on Psychological Science)
  • "Structure-seeking as a psychological antecedent of beliefs about morality." (2020, Journal of Experimental Psychology General)
  • "The mutual constitution of culture and psyche: The bidirectional relationship between individuals' perceived control and cultural tightness-looseness." (2022, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology)
  • "Scientific skepticism and inequality: Political and ideological roots" (2020, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology)

They frequently collaborate with several co-authors, including:

  • Daniela Goya-Tocchetto
  • Steven Shepherd
  • Matthew L. Stanley
  • Rebecca Ponce de Leon
  • Nour Kteily

Common venues for their publications are:

  • Academy of Management Proceedings
  • Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
  • Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
  • Journal of Experimental Psychology General
  • Law and Human Behavior

Best Publications

  • Complementary justice: effects of "poor but happy" and "poor but honest" stereotype exemplars on system justification and implicit activation of the justice motive.

    Aaron C. Kay;John T. Jost

  • Exposure to benevolent sexism and complementary gender stereotypes: consequences for specific and diffuse forms of system justification.

    John T. Jost;Aaron C. Kay

  • God and the government: Testing a compensatory control mechanism for the support of external systems.

    Aaron C. Kay;Danielle Gaucher;Jamie L. Napier;Mitchell J. Callan

  • Evidence That Gendered Wording in Job Advertisements Exists and Sustains Gender Inequality

    Danielle Gaucher;Justin Friesen;Aaron C. Kay

  • Compensatory Control Achieving Order Through the Mind, Our Institutions, and the Heavens

    Aaron C. Kay;Jennifer A. Whitson;Danielle Gaucher;Adam D. Galinsky

  • Solution aversion: On the relation between ideology and motivated disbelief.

    Troy H. Campbell;Aaron C. Kay

  • Material priming: The influence of mundane physical objects on situational construal and competitive behavioral choice ☆

    Aaron C. Kay;S.Christian Wheeler;John A. Bargh;Lee Ross

  • 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 be.

    Aaron C. Kay;Danielle Gaucher;Jennifer M. Peach;Kristin Laurin

  • Compensatory control and the appeal of a structured world.

    Mark J. Landau;Aaron C. Kay;Jennifer A. Whitson

  • Social Justice: History, Theory, and Research

    John T. Jost;Aaron C. Kay

  • Religious Belief as Compensatory Control

    Aaron C Kay;Danielle Gaucher;Ian McGregor;Kyle Nash

  • Victim Derogation and Victim Enhancement as Alternate Routes to System Justification

    Aaron C. Kay;John T. Jost;Sean Young

  • Sour Grapes, Sweet Lemons, and the Anticipatory Rationalization of the Status Quo

    Aaron C. Kay;Maria C. Jimenez;John T. Jost

  • Seeking structure in social organization: Compensatory control and the psychological advantages of hierarchy.

    Justin P. Friesen;Aaron C. Kay;Richard P. Eibach;Adam D. Galinsky

  • A sense of powerlessness fosters system justification: Implications for the legitimation of authority, hierarchy, and government

    Jojanneke van der Toorn;Matthew Feinberg;John T. Jost;Aaron C. Kay

  • For God (or) country: The hydraulic relation between government instability and belief in religious sources of control.

    Aaron C. Kay;Steven Shepherd;Craig W. Blatz;Sook Ning Chua

  • Subjective Status Shapes Political Preferences

    Jazmin L. Brown-Iannuzzi;Kristjen B. Lundberg;Aaron C. Kay;B. Keith Payne

  • On Social Stability and Social Change Understanding When System Justification Does and Does Not Occur

    Aaron C. Kay;Justin Friesen

  • On the belief in God : Towards an understanding of the emotional substrates of compensatory control

    Kristin Laurin;Aaron C. Kay;David A. Moscovitch

  • Social and Psychological Bases of Ideology and System Justification

    John T. Jost;Aaron C. Kay;Hulda Thorisdottir

Frequent Co-Authors

John T. Jost
John T. Jost New York University
Mark J. Landau
Mark J. Landau University of Kansas
Gráinne M. Fitzsimons
Gráinne M. Fitzsimons Duke University
Gavan J. Fitzsimons
Gavan J. Fitzsimons Duke University
S. Christian Wheeler
S. Christian Wheeler Stanford University
Adam D. Galinsky
Adam D. Galinsky Columbia University
Mark P. Zanna
Mark P. Zanna University of Waterloo
Lee Ross
Lee Ross Stanford University
Eric-Jan Wagenmakers
Eric-Jan Wagenmakers University of Amsterdam
B. Keith Payne
B. Keith Payne University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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