John T. Jost

     
Institution
New York University

Current Position
Professor of Psychology

Highest Degree
Ph.D. in Social and Political Psychology from Yale University, 1995

Research Interests
Applied Social Psychology
Attitudes
Conflict Resolution
Ethics/Morality
Gender
Group Processes
Intergroup Relations
Organizational Behavior
Personality
Persuasion/Social Influence
Political Psychology
Prejudice/Stereotyping
Self/Identity
Social Cognition
Sociology

Laboratory Home Page
Jost Laboratory at NYU

Courses Taught
Ideology, Justice, and Intergroup Relations
Political Psychology
Social Influence and Persuasion
Social Psychology of Organizations
Theories in Social Psychology

 
John T. Jost
Department of Psychology
6 Washington Place, 5th Floor
New York University
New York, New York 10003
U.S.A.

Home Page
Phone: (212) 998-7665
Fax: (212) 995-4018



John T. Jost
John Jost has published over 70 journal articles and book chapters and has received numerous awards and honors. His active research interests include stereotyping, prejudice, ideology, and intergroup relations; social justice; political psychology; and the theory of system justification. Awards he has received to date include the Gordon Allport Intergroup Relations Award (three times), the SPSP Theoretical Innovation Prize, the International Society for Self & Identity Early Career Award, the Erik Erikson Early Career Research Achievement Award in Political Psychology, and the Morton Deutsch Award for Distinguished Scholarly and Practical Contributions to Social Justice. Jost is currently Editor-in-Chief of Social Justice Research, serves on several other editorial boards, and is on the Governing Council of the International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP). He is Editor of a new book series on "Political Psychology" at Oxford University Press. He is also a Member of the New York Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science (APS).


Books:

  • Jost, J. T., Banaji, M. R., & Prentice, D. (Eds.). (2004). Perspectivism in social psychology: The yin and yang of scientific progress. [Festschrift in honor of William J. McGuire.] Washington, DC: APA Press.
  • Jost, J. T., & Major, B. (Eds.). (2001). The psychology of legitimacy: Emerging perspectives on ideology, justice, and intergroup relations. New York: Cambridge University Press.
  • Jost, J. T., & Sidanius, J. (Eds.). (2004). Political psychology: Key readings. New York: Psychology Press/Taylor & Francis.

Journal Articles:

  • Amodio, D. M., Jost, J. T., Master, S. L., & Yee, C. M. (2007). Neurocognitive correlates of liberalism and conservatism. Nature Neuroscience, 10, 1246-1247.
  • Jost, J. T. (2006). The end of the end of ideology. American Psychologist, 61, 651-670.
  • Jost, J. T., Banaji, M. R., & Nosek, B. A. (2004). A decade of system justification theory: Accumulated evidence of conscious and unconscious bolstering of the status quo. Political Psychology, 25, 881-919.
  • Jost, J. T., Glaser, J., Kruglanski, A. W., & Sulloway, F. (2003). Political conservatism as motivated social cognition. Psychological Bulletin, 129, 339-375.
  • Jost, J. T., & Hunyady, O. (2002). The psychology of system justification and the palliative function of ideology. European Review of Social Psychology, 13, 111-153. [Awarded the SPSP Theoretical Innovation Prize].
  • Jost, J. T., & Kay, A. C. (2005). Exposure to benevolent sexism and complementary gender stereotypes: Consequences for specific and diffuse forms of system justification. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 88, 498-509.
  • Jost, J. T., Ledgerwood, A., & Hardin, C. D. (2008). Shared reality, system justification, and the relational basis of ideological beliefs. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 2, 171-186.
  • Jost, J. T., Napier, J. L., Thorisdottir, H., Gosling, S. D., Palfai, T. P., & Ostafin, B. (2007). Are needs to manage uncertainty and threat associated with political conservatism or ideological extremity? Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 33, 989-1007.
  • Jost, J. T., Nosek, B. A., & Gosling, S. D. (2008). Ideology: Its resurgence in social, personality, and political psychology. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 3, 126-136.
  • Napier, J. L., & Jost, J. T. (2008). Why are conservatives happier than liberals? Psychological Science, in press.
  • Wakslak, C., Jost, J. T., Tyler, T. R., & Chen, E. (2007). Moral outrage mediates the dampening effect of system justification on support for redistributive social policies. Psychological Science, 18, 267-274.

Other Publications:

  • Kay, A. C., Jost, J. T., Mandisodza, A. N., Sherman, S. J., Petrocelli, J. V., & Johnson, A. L. (2007). Panglossian ideology in the service of system justification: How complementary stereotypes help us to rationalize inequality. In M. Zanna (Ed.), Advances in Experimental Social Psychology (Vol. 39, pp. 305-358). San Diego, CA: Academic Press/Elsevier.

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