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Overview

John T. Jost is affiliated with New York University in the United States and has a research focus spanning social sciences and psychology. Their work predominantly engages with sociology, political science, and social psychology within broader interdisciplinary contexts.

The main fields of study covered by this researcher include:

  • Social Sciences
  • Psychology

Within these fields, specific subfields of interest appear to be:

  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Social Psychology
  • Political Science and International Relations
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Communication

The scientist's research topics are primarily concentrated on:

  • Social and Intergroup Psychology
  • Cultural Differences and Values
  • Electoral Systems and Political Participation
  • Misinformation and Its Impacts
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Social and Cultural Dynamics
  • Social Media and Politics

Notable recent publications include:

  • The Paranoid Style in American Politics Revisited: An Ideological Asymmetry in Conspiratorial Thinking (2020), published in Political Psychology
  • Cognitive-motivational mechanisms of political polarization in social-communicative contexts (2022), published in Nature Reviews Psychology
  • Economic system justification predicts muted emotional responses to inequality (2020), published in Nature Communications
  • The authoritarian-conservatism nexus (2020), published in Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences
  • The ideological basis of antiscientific attitudes: Effects of authoritarianism, conservatism, religiosity, social dominance, and system justification (2021), published in Group Processes & Intergroup Relations

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Usman Liaquat
  • Eduardo J. Rivera Pichardo
  • Vivienne Badaan
  • Costas Panagopoulos
  • Flávio Azevedo

Common venues for publication are:

  • Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences
  • Social and Personality Psychology Compass
  • Political Psychology
  • PLoS ONE
  • Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

John T. Jost also has book publications, including A Theory of System Justification (2020), published by Harvard University Press.

Best Publications

  • Political conservatism as motivated social cognition.

    John T. Jost;Jack Glaser;Arie W. Kruglanski;Frank J. Sulloway

  • The role of stereotyping in system‐justification and the production of false consciousness

    John T. Jost;Mahzarin R. Banaji

  • A Decade of System Justification Theory: Accumulated Evidence of Conscious and Unconscious Bolstering of the Status Quo

    John T. Jost;Mahzarin R. Banaji;Brian A. Nosek

  • Political ideology: Its structure, functions, and elective affinities

    John T. Jost;Christopher M. Federico;Jaime L. Napier

  • The end of the end of ideology

    John T. Jost

  • Tweeting From Left to Right Is Online Political Communication More Than an Echo Chamber

    Pablo Barberá;John T. Jost;Jonathan Nagler;Joshua A. Tucker

  • The Secret Lives of Liberals and Conservatives: Personality Profiles, Interaction Styles, and the Things They Leave Behind

    Dana R. Carney;John T. Jost;Samuel D. Gosling;Jeff Potter

  • 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

  • Antecedents and Consequences of System-Justifying Ideologies

    John T. Jost;Orsolya Hunyady

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

    John T. Jost;Aaron C. Kay

  • The psychology of system justification and the palliative function of ideology

    John T. Jost;Orsolya Hunyady;Orsolya Hunyady

  • Emotion shapes the diffusion of moralized content in social networks

    William J. Brady;Julian A. Wills;John T. Jost;Joshua A. Tucker

  • Ideology: Its Resurgence in Social, Personality, and Political Psychology:

    John T. Jost;Brian A. Nosek;Samuel D. Gosling

  • Group-based dominance and opposition to equality as independent predictors of self-esteem, ethnocentrism, and social policy attitudes among african americans and european americans

    John T. Jost;Erik P. Thompson

  • Social inequality and the reduction of ideological dissonance on behalf of the system: evidence of enhanced system justification among the disadvantaged

    John T. Jost;Brett W. Pelham;Oliver Sheldon;Bilian Ni Sullivan

  • System Justification, the Denial of Global Warming, and the Possibility of “System-Sanctioned Change”

    Irina Feygina;John T. Jost;Rachel E. Goldsmith

  • Neurocognitive correlates of liberalism and conservatism.

    David M Amodio;John T Jost;Sarah L Master;Cindy M Yee

  • The Psychology of Legitimacy: Emerging Perspectives on Ideology, Justice, and Intergroup Relations

    John T. Jost;Brenda Major

  • Are Needs to Manage Uncertainty and Threat Associated With Political Conservatism or Ideological Extremity

    John T. Jost;Jaime L. Napier;Hulda Thorisdottir;Samuel D. Gosling

  • Attitudinal Ambivalence and the Conflict between Group and System Justification Motives in Low Status Groups

    John T. Jost;Diana Burgess

Frequent Co-Authors

Aaron C. Kay
Aaron C. Kay Duke University
Jay J. Van Bavel
Jay J. Van Bavel New York University
Arie W. Kruglanski
Arie W. Kruglanski University of Maryland, College Park
Samuel D. Gosling
Samuel D. Gosling The University of Texas at Austin
Brian A. Nosek
Brian A. Nosek Center for Open Science
Brett W. Pelham
Brett W. Pelham University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Tom R. Tyler
Tom R. Tyler Yale University
Mahzarin R. Banaji
Mahzarin R. Banaji Harvard University
Tessa V. West
Tessa V. West New York University
Nicholas O. Rule
Nicholas O. Rule University of Toronto

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