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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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The Neurobiology of Fairness and Social Justice: An Introduction
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors highlight neuroscience research on the neurobiology of fairness and social justice, including individual variability in definitions of fairness, the genetic basis of economic egalitarianism, neural bases of empathy in environmental and intergroup domains, and the neural and genetic correlates of ideological polarization.
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Toward a neuropsychology of political orientation: exploring ideology in patients with frontal and midbrain lesions.
TL;DR: The authors explored links between neuroanatomy and ideolo... and found that people form their political beliefs using a neuropsychological approach, which is similar to our approach in many ways.
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Mortality Salience, System Justification, and Candidate Evaluations in the 2012 U.S. Presidential Election.
TL;DR: There was little evidence that mortality salience, either by itself or in interaction with political orientation, affected overall candidate ratings or voting intentions, but a significant interaction between mortality Salience and system justification in some studies indicated a more circumscribed effect.
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Theoretical integration in motivational science: System justification as one of many "autonomous motivational structures".
Aaron C. Kay,John T. Jost +1 more
TL;DR: It is agreed that system justification is a case of nonconscious goal pursuit and implications of the fact that it conflicts with many other psychological goals are discussed.