John T. Jost

TL;DR: Theories of legitimacy have been studied in a wide range of contexts, e.g., social and psychological processes of legitimization and delegitimization as mentioned in this paper, as well as a perceptual theory of legitimacy: policies, prejudice, social institutions, and moral value.

TL;DR: In three studies using nationally representative data from the United States and nine additional countries, it is found that right-wing (vs. left-wing) orientation is indeed associated with greater subjectiveWell-being and that the relation between political orientation and subjective well-being is mediated by the rationalization of inequality.

TL;DR: This article found that significant ideological asymmetries exist with respect to dogmatism, cognitive/perceptual rigidity, personal needs for order/structure/closure, integrative complexity, tolerance of ambiguity/uncertainty, need for cognition, cognitive reflection, self-deception, and subjective perceptions of threat.

TL;DR: In this article, it is argued that members of low-status groups are faced with a psychological conflict between group justification tendencies to evaluate members of one's own group favorably and system justification tendency to endorse the superiority of higher status outgroups.

TL;DR: This paper found evidence of both universal and context-specific effects in their analysis of the cognitive and motivational antecedents of left-right political orientation in 19 countries included in the European Social Survey (ESS) to assess two sets of hypotheses: (1) that traditionalism and acceptance of inequality would be positively associated with right (versus left) orientation, and (2) that rule-following (an aspect of the need for order), high need for security, and low need for openness to experience would be associated with left-wing orientation.