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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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Social Protest and Its Discontents: A System Justification Perspective

TL;DR: The authors draw together recent contributions to the understanding of the social and psychological bases of political action and inaction from the perspective of system justification theory, arguing that people are motivated to defend, bolster, and justify the legitimacy of social, political, and economic systems on which they depend.
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Conceptual, empirical, and practical problems with the claim that intolerance, prejudice, and discrimination are equivalent on the political left and right

TL;DR: For instance, the authors show that members of racial/ethnic minority groups (African Americans, Latinx, Asian Americans, Native Americans, and mixed race individuals) are dozens of times more likely to be victims of hate crimes than European Americans, adjusting for population base rates.
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Cognitive–motivational mechanisms of political polarization in social-communicative contexts

TL;DR: The authors provide a conceptual framework to integrate scientific knowledge about cognitive-motivational mechanisms that influence political polarization and the social-communicative contexts in which they are enacted, and conclude that a distinct class of system-justifying motives contributes to asymmetric forms of polarization.
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Imagining better societies: A social psychological framework for the study of utopian thinking and collective action

TL;DR: This article present an integrative theoretical model that specifies social psychological mechanisms by which utopian thinking, which activates the social imagination, may enhance collective action intentions oriented toward social change and human progress.