John Jost

🌍Do all nations believe they’re superior—or do some feel inferior?

Western social sciences claimed the first. But Fanon & Memmi argued colonization by the West left many in the Global South with colonial mentality—internalized oppression.

🧵Findings from our 45-country study:

I was honored by the @psychscience.bsky.social DEI Committee's invitation to help curate this collection of outstanding articles addressing a range of issues related to anti-Black racism. I also couldn't have asked for a more thoughtful and thorough partner in @johnjost.bsky.social. Please share!

Looks interesting.

Analysis of evangelical sermons.

System justification of inequality

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Extremely interesting. I am in Brazil now and have learned that evangelicals here, led by Silas Malafaia (loosely translated from the Latin as "evildoer," my translation), played a huge role in Bolsonaro's rise to power.

<em>British Journal of Social Psychology</em> | Wiley Online Library The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has had a detrimental effect on people's mental health. Drawing on the palliative function of ideologies, we suggest that people rely on system-justif...

Correlational & experimental evidence from China finds that during the COVID pandemic, system justification was associated with an increased sense of personal control, decreased anxiety and negative affect, and increased positive affect. #palliative
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‘Self-termination is most likely’: the history and future of societal collapse An epic analysis of 5,000 years of civilisation argues that a global collapse is coming unless inequality is vanquished

Egalitarianism vs. the dark triad?
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Climate Privilege: Defensive disbelief in climate change science Two studies investigated climate privilege--an idea derived from existing research on racial and economic privilege. U.S. citizens consume a larger th…

Two experiments find that reminding U.S participants that the U.S. is disproportionately responsible for climate change leads conservatives (but not liberals) to show *reduced* preferences for environmentally friendly consumption
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Anger and Authoritarianism Mediate the Effects of Fear on Support for the Far Right—What Vasilopoulos et al. (2019) Really Found In an important study of popular support for the National Front following the November 13, 2015 terrorist attacks in France, Vasilopoulos, Marcus, Valentino, and Foucault (2019) argue that (1) anger—...

Also, Pavlos Vasilopoulos and I found that after a terrorist attack in France: fear-->anger-->authoritarianism-->support for far right. I think it makes a lot of sense, psychologically, that fear could be displaced onto others as anger.

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Good question, Gordon. Today's "conservatism" in the US is really right-wing extremism, increasingly resembling fascism. They do not seem interested in "conserving" much of anything, institution-wise.

Rumors in Retweet: Ideological Asymmetry in the Failure to Correct Misinformation - Matthew R. DeVerna, Andrew M. Guess, Adam J. Berinsky, Joshua A. Tucker, John T. Jost, 2024 We used supervised machine-learning techniques to examine ideological asymmetries in online rumor transmission. Although liberals were more likely than conserva...

We told you they really, really, really, really cared about the Epstein case
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Thank you, @bettinaachwarzen and @volts.wtf

Color me unsurprised. But thanks for the daily reminder.

🚨In PNAS🚨
The right often accuses fact-checkers of political bias
But we analyzed Community Notes on Musk's X and found posts flagged as "misleading" are 2.3x more likely to be written by Reps than Dems!
The issue is Reps sharing misinformation, not fact-checker bias...
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You mean political conservatism as motivated social cognition?

『システム正当化理論』内容紹介 システム正当化理論 ジョン・T. ジョスト著／北村英哉・池上知子・沼崎誠監訳 発行日: 2022年7月31日 …

Also available in Japanese, thanks to Hideya Kitamura: chitosepress.com/books/978-4-...

Per una teoria della giustificazione del sistema

"A Theory of System Justification" is now available in Italian, thanks to translator and colleague extraordinaire @mgpacilli.bsky.social
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Thank you, Tom!

There should be a license to practice journalism and one requirement should be that you’ve read everything Jost has written

Multiple Identities Model of Collective Inaction: How Belonging to Psychologically Incompatible Groups Reinforces the Status Quo Previous models of social identification and collective (in)action circumscribe their accounts to individuals' belonging to a single social group. However, an individual may belong to a multiplicity ....

"We conjecture that the desire to belong to a more valued social group that is stereotypically incompatible with the devalued group weakens identification with the latter and therefore undermines support for collective action."

New work by @johnjost.bsky.social and colleagues

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“A 2010 study that analyzed 40 years of protest coverage in five major newspapers, including The New York Times and The Washington Post, found that the papers depicted protests — even peaceful ones — as nuisances rather than as necessary functions of democracy.”

Citizens in democratic countries have more benevolent traits, fewer malevolent traits, and greater well-being - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Citizens in democratic countries have more benevolent traits, fewer malevolent traits, and greater well-being

Citizens in democratic countries have more benevolent personality traits, fewer malevolent traits, and greater well-being. New article by Craig Neumann, Scott Barry Kaufman, & Leanne ten Brinke
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Both-sidesism debunked? Study finds conservatives more anti-democratic, driven by two psychological traits A new study has found that conservatives exhibit stronger anti-democratic tendencies than liberals, driven by psychological traits like authoritarianism and social dominance orientation.

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For the much longer- winded version: spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Thank you, Linda!

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I think that personality researchers should *seriously* consider how they label and think about this particular trait given decades of evidence from political psychology linking it to prejudice, authoritarianism, etc.

System justification drives Latino support for nativist policies - Efrén Pérez, Ramona Alhambra, Joyce H. Nguy, Olivia Bielskis, Leila Chabane, Andrea Gudino, Cameron Katz, Jamiel Liu, Emily Mojica, M... Since Donald Trump’s presidency (2016–2020), political observers have rushed to explain why some Latinos support nativist policies that harm members of their ow...

"System Justification Drives Latino Support for Nativist Policies." Important work by @efrenpolipsy.bsky.social et al.
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My family and I were treated to a wonderfully informative guided tour of Istanbul by the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality. SO RECOMMENDED! Visit.istanbul
#visitistanbulofficial
#ibbturizm
#ibbmiras
#bbkültür

SPSSI Journals Previous research suggests that societal threats often increase ideological support for the social system, but the attitudinal effects of COVID-19 seem to have varied greatly. Here we present the res...

Polarizing effects of the coronavirus pandemic on system justification: A natural experiment involving New York City college students
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