Brand new open access article: "Political Ideology as Historically Situated Motivated Social Cognition: Understanding Right-Wing Conservatism in Brazil" with Luana de Souza, Tiago de Lima, Cicero Roberto Pereira, and company. spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Brilliant new article by @suppes.bsky.social, @jnapier.bsky.social, @pjhenry.bsky.social, & @kodai-kusano.bsky.social: System justification is associated with African Americans' endorsement of symbolic racism against Blacks onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Author talk (online) at the Boston Public Library on January 15, 2026 bpl.bibliocommons.com/events/692f1...

🌍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 Tag: @johnjost.bsky.social

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 bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirec...

Egalitarianism vs. the dark triad? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We told you they really, really, really, really cared about the Epstein case journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

🚨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... www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

"A Theory of System Justification" is now available in Italian, thanks to translator and colleague extraordinaire @mgpacilli.bsky.social www.maggiolieditore.it/per-una-teor...

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

"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 #SocialPsyc

“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 personality traits, fewer malevolent traits, and greater well-being. New article by Craig Neumann, Scott Barry Kaufman, & Leanne ten Brinke www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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

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

"System Justification Drives Latino Support for Nativist Policies." Important work by @efrenpolipsy.bsky.social et al. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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

Polarizing effects of the coronavirus pandemic on system justification: A natural experiment involving New York City college students spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Big year for out-group favoritism and system justification @johnjost.bsky.social

Clever new set of experiments by Blanchar, Eidelman, & Allen (2024) showing that people use double standards when evaluating alternatives to the status quo www.frontiersin.org/journals/soc...

Framing Climate Action as Patriotic and Status-Quo Friendly Increases Liberals’ and Conservatives’ Belief in Climate Change www.nyu.edu/about/news-p...

"Polarizing effects of the coronavirus pandemic on system justification: A natural experiment involving New York City college students." spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1... New article with Eduardo Rivera Pichardo & Sushmeena Parihar

New open access article with Debora de Oliveira Santos on ideological asymmetries in anti-democratic tendencies rdcu.be/dMuZR

New open access article with Ian Cropley: "A social prospect theory of intergroup relations explains the occurrence of incremental progressive social change" www.frontiersin.org/journals/soc...

Why Social Science? Because It Might Help Us Save American Democracy www.whysocialscience.com/blog/2024/5/...

American Academy of Political and Social Science (AAPSS) welcomes eight scholars as 2024 fellows. AAPSS selects a small group of scholars & public intellectuals to become fellows of the academy, recognizing the extent to which their work has deepened public understanding of social dynamics.

@elijfinkel.bsky.social + I are happy to announce that we're hiring a postdoc to research constructive approaches to dealing w conflict. Please apply! The application deadline is Wednesday, January 31, 2024. Thereafter on a rolling basis. Apply here: facultyrecruiting.northwestern.edu/apply/MjAzNw==

New open access article by Folberg et al. (2024): "Racism underlies seemingly race-neutral conservative criticisms of DEI statements among Black and White people in the United States" bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

"Divided: Open-Mindedness and Dogmatism in a Polarized World," the 16th volume in the Oxford University Press’ Series in Political Psychology available now. www.luc.edu/cas/about/ne...

"Social Psychology without Hubris" ... Here is my editorial for a brand-new open access journal, *Frontiers in Social Psychology*, which is now accepting submissions! rb.gy/2k9pq6

Hey Bluesky 👋 Columbia is hiring a tenure-track faculty member in social psychology. Emphasis on multi-method expertise, e.g., computational approaches to studying social behavior, psychophysiology, big data, & other novel methods. Review begins October 1. Come join us! apply.interfolio.com/131473

Anti-Muslim and anti-Jewish hate online stems from the same fringe, white supremacist communities who target both groups interchangeably, finds Hobbs, @nazita.bsky.social, Li & Lucas, suggesting we need to consider hate against both groups in tandem doi.org/10.1007/s111...

Clear majority of Brits now see that Brexit was a failure. www.theguardian.com/politics/202... It's time for citizens to take politics more seriously, especially as we enter 2024. Become aware, engaged, & thoughtful. And beware of promises are too good to be likely be true....

New open access article w. Hoffarth and Liaquat on Heterosexist SJ: Conservative & system-justifying sexual minorities expressed weaker sexual identification; less support for same-sex marriage, adoption, other rights; and less participation in LGBTQ+ collective action. tinyurl.com/4h2taxvj

Another basic income pilot focused on homelessness has released preliminary results after only 6 months because halfway through the experiment, it is already showing incredible effectiveness. $750/mo for 6 months led to homelessness dropping to 12% versus 23% in the control group on a wait list.

Clarence Thomas strongly hinted that he would resign if somebody didn't give him a lot more money, and his rich friends obliged in time to save Bush v. Gore: www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2023/12/nice...

Really proud that our paper with @thatadammorris.bsky.social on awareness of implicit attitudes was selected as an Editor’s Choice Article at JEP:G for making an “outstanding, noteworthy, and impactful” contribution. Available from here: psycnet.apa.org/record/2024-... & here: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Paper using machine learning to analyze tweets. By Badaan et al (@johnjost.bsky.social lab), w/ shoutout to my former PhD student Mark Hoffarth! Find many asymmetries: conservatives (vs liberals) nastier online. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The School of Information Sciences at UIUC is hiring (open rank, tenure track) in the broad area of artificial intelligence, including Human-AI interaction, network science, and questions of ethics and policy related to AI. Deadline Dec 15. We have a 2-1 load. Please share widely! #mlsky #cssky

I'm taking new PhD students from autumn 2024. Sussex Psychology also has a small number of studentships (funded places) available. For more details, see here: sussex.ac.uk/schools/psyc...

John T. Jost @johnjost.bsky.social Now on Bluesky! I presumably don't even need to suggest you follow him, you've already just done it, right?