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John T. Jost

Researcher at New York University

Publications -  297
Citations -  38865

John T. Jost is an academic researcher from New York University. The author has contributed to research in topics: System justification & Ideology. The author has an hindex of 83, co-authored 284 publications receiving 33857 citations. Previous affiliations of John T. Jost include University of California, Santa Barbara & Yale University.

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Placating the Powerless: Effects of Legitimate and Illegitimate Explanation on Affect, Memory and Stereotyping

TL;DR: In this article, the effects of legitimate and illegitimate explanations for power differences between groups were investigated on measures of affect, stereotyping, and memory, and they found that powerless groups reported more positive affect relative to negative affect, whether these explanations were legitimate or illegitimate.
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System Justification Theory

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TL;DR: System justification is a social psychology term of art that designates any motivational tendency to defend, bolster, or rationalize existing social, economic, and political arrangements as discussed by the authors ; it is conceptualized as a response tendency possessed by many, or perhaps most, members of society to see aspects of the overarching social system as good, fair, and legitimate.
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System justification, right-wing conservatism, and internalized homophobia: Gay and lesbian attitudes toward same-sex parenting in Italy

TL;DR: This article found that men and women's perceptions of their own bodies and capacities are strongly affected by sociocultural processes, including ideological processes, resulting in internalized homophobia in the sense of inferiority when it comes to parenthood.
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On the ideology of hypodescent: Political conservatism predicts categorization of racially ambiguous faces as Black

TL;DR: This article investigated whether the tendency to apply this principle is relat- ed to political ideology and found that self-reported conservatism (vs. liberalism) was associated with a tendency to categorize ambiguous faces as Black.