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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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Working for the System: Motivated Defense of Meritocratic Beliefs
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined how the desire to justify the societal status quo motivates cognitive and behavioral defense of the notion that hard work leads to success and found that participants judged objectively equivalent evidence as better in quality when it led to a conclusion that supported (vs. challenged) a link between hard work and success in American society, and that this pro-meritocracy bias in judgment increased following system threat.
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"The world isn't fair": A system justification perspective on social stratification and inequality.
TL;DR: In terms of wealth rather than income, the top 1 percent control 40 percent of the nation's income as discussed by the authors... All the growth in recent decades has gone to those at the top.
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System Justification and the Meaning of Life: Are the Existential Benefits of Ideology Distributed Unequally Across Racial Groups?
TL;DR: This article investigated the relation among system justification, religiosity, and subjective well-being in a sample of nationally representative low-income respondents in the United States, and found that strong endorsement of system justification as an ideology was associated with increased positive affect, decreased negative affect, and a wide range of existential benefits, including life satisfaction and a subjective sense of security, meaning, and mastery.
Social media and political communication: A survey of Twitter users during the 2013 Italian general election
Cristian Vaccari,Augusto Valeriani,Pablo Barberá,Richard Bonneau,John T. Jost,Jonathan Nagler,Joshua A. Tucker +6 more
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Resistance to Change: A Social Psychological Perspective
TL;DR: The role of political ideology and system justification motivation in fostering skepticism and resistance to scientific information about climate change has been explored by as discussed by the authors, who describe some of the studies that I and others have conducted on the role that ideology and justification motivation play in climate change denial.