John Jost
@johnjost.bsky.social
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🌍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:
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:
September 11, 2025 at 1:49 PM
🌍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:
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:
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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!
This virtual special collection, The Psychological Science of Anti-Black Racism, an Ongoing Social Problem, highlights a selection of articles published in APS journals over the past decade that explore the enduring problem of anti-Black racism in the U.S.
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August 29, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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!
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Looks interesting.
Analysis of evangelical sermons.
System justification of inequality
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Analysis of evangelical sermons.
System justification of inequality
Tag: @johnjost.bsky.social
New from me in @jssreligion.bsky.social:
Evangelicals justify economic inequality more than the overall population. So what are preachers saying about Bible passages that might cut against inequality? They just insist those passages don't really say inequality is bad.
doi.org/10.1111/jssr...
Evangelicals justify economic inequality more than the overall population. So what are preachers saying about Bible passages that might cut against inequality? They just insist those passages don't really say inequality is bad.
doi.org/10.1111/jssr...
“I Thank God We're Rich”: Justifying Economic Inequality in an Evangelical Congregation
Christianity has been the inspiration for a variety of responses to economic inequality in the United States and beyond. However, evangelicalism has been associated in the literature with consistent ....
urldefense.com
August 26, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Looks interesting.
Analysis of evangelical sermons.
System justification of inequality
Tag: @johnjost.bsky.social
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
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<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...
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August 4, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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...
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Egalitarianism vs. the dark triad?
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘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
www.theguardian.com
August 4, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Egalitarianism vs. the dark triad?
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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
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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…
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August 3, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
We told you they really, really, really, really cared about the Epstein case
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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...
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July 20, 2025 at 12:48 AM
We told you they really, really, really, really cared about the Epstein case
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🚨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/...
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/...
June 17, 2025 at 12:51 PM
🚨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/...
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...
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Per una teoria della giustificazione del sistema
www.maggiolieditore.it
June 13, 2025 at 1:44 PM
"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...
www.maggiolieditore.it/per-una-teor...
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There should be a license to practice journalism and one requirement should be that you’ve read everything Jost has written
For the much longer- winded version: spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
June 11, 2025 at 4:45 PM
There should be a license to practice journalism and one requirement should be that you’ve read everything Jost has written
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"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
New work by @johnjost.bsky.social and colleagues
#SocialPsyc
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 ....
doi.org
June 9, 2025 at 7:51 AM
"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
New work by @johnjost.bsky.social and colleagues
#SocialPsyc
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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.”
June 8, 2025 at 11:52 AM
“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...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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
www.nature.com
April 17, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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For the much longer- winded version: spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
March 26, 2025 at 8:05 PM
For the much longer- winded version: spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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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
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#ibbturizm
#ibbmiras
#bbkültür
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#ibbmiras
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December 27, 2024 at 10:32 AM
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
#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...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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...
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February 27, 2025 at 2:18 PM
"System Justification Drives Latino Support for Nativist Policies." Important work by @efrenpolipsy.bsky.social et al.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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
#visitistanbulofficial
#ibbturizm
#ibbmiras
#bbkültür
December 27, 2024 at 10:32 AM
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
#visitistanbulofficial
#ibbturizm
#ibbmiras
#bbkültür
Polarizing effects of the coronavirus pandemic on system justification: A natural experiment involving New York City college students
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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...
spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 23, 2024 at 2:51 PM
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/...
spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Big year for out-group favoritism and system justification @johnjost.bsky.social
November 12, 2024 at 7:34 PM
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...
www.frontiersin.org/journals/soc...
Frontiers | Social change requires more justification than maintaining the status quo
Three studies demonstrate that, all else being equal, the threshold for justifying social change is higher than the threshold for maintaining the status quo....
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September 14, 2024 at 4:21 PM
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...
www.frontiersin.org/journals/soc...
Framing Climate Action as Patriotic and Status-Quo Friendly Increases Liberals’ and Conservatives’ Belief in Climate Change
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Framing Climate Action as Patriotic and Status-Quo Friendly Increases Liberals’ and Conservatives’ Belief in Climate Change
Psychology study offers messaging roadmap for changing attitudes on environmental issues and policies
www.nyu.edu
September 9, 2024 at 10:21 PM
Framing Climate Action as Patriotic and Status-Quo Friendly Increases Liberals’ and Conservatives’ Belief in Climate Change
www.nyu.edu/about/news-p...
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
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New article with Eduardo Rivera Pichardo & Sushmeena Parihar
July 28, 2024 at 2:13 PM
"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
spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
New article with Eduardo Rivera Pichardo & Sushmeena Parihar