Social and Psychological Bases of Ideology and System Justification

By John T. Jost, Aaron C. Kay, H. Thórisdóttir. 2009

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Not All Ideologies are Created Equal: Epistemic, Existential, and Relational Needs Predict System-Justifying Attitudes (2012, positive): “Some evidence exists to support this assumption (e.g., Jost et al., 2003, 2007, 2008, 2009; Rutjens & Loseman, 2010; Thórisdóttir & Jost, 2011; Ullrich & Cohrs, 2007).”
Motivated Closed-Mindedness Mediates the Effect of Threat on Political Conservatism (2011, background): “There are at least two important characteristics of political conservatism as an ideology that may help to explain its special appeal under circumstances of threat and uncertainty (see also Jost, 2006; Jost et al., 2003, 2007, 2009).”
Special Thematic Section on "Societal Change" A Complex Systems Approach to the Study of Ideology: Cognitive-Affective Structures and the Dynamics of Belief Systems (2013, background): “On the other hand, more discursive and sociological approaches to ideology have resisted such accounts, arguing that the bulk of interesting ideological variation is far too complex to be captured by crude dimensional models.”
Tracing the threads: How five moral concerns (especially Purity) help explain culture war attitudes (2012, background): “In fact, Duckitt and colleagues (Duckitt & Sibley, 2009; Duckitt , Wagner, du Plessis, & Birum, 2002) have argued that RWA and SDO are ''more appropriately viewed as measuring social attitude or ideological belief dimensions rather than personality.''”
The Joy of Sexism? A Multinational Investigation of Hostile and Benevolent Justifications for Gender Inequality and Their Relations to Subjective Well-Being (2010, background): “According to the theory, people are motivated to defend the status quo (and by extension, existing inequalities) because doing so serves epistemic, existential, and relational needs to minimize uncertainty and threat and to maintain shared reality with others (Jost et al. 2009; Jost et al. 2008).”