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Vukašin Gligorić, PhD @vukasin.bsky.social · 27d

🌍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:

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Keith Maddox @maddblackprof.bsky.social · Aug 29

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!

Association for Psychological Science @psychscience.bsky.social · Aug 14

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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Gordon Hodson @gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social · Aug 26

Looks interesting.

Analysis of evangelical sermons.

System justification of inequality

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Dawson Vosburg @dawsonvosburg.bsky.social · Aug 26

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.

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“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 ....

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John Jost @johnjost.bsky.social · Aug 26

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.

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John Jost @johnjost.bsky.social · Aug 4

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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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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John Jost @johnjost.bsky.social · Aug 4

Egalitarianism vs. the dark triad?
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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

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John Jost @johnjost.bsky.social · Aug 3

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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John Jost @johnjost.bsky.social · Jul 28

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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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—...

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John Jost @johnjost.bsky.social · Jul 28

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.

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John Jost @johnjost.bsky.social · Jul 20

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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John Jost @johnjost.bsky.social · Jul 15

Thank you, @bettinaachwarzen and @volts.wtf

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · Jul 12

Kristi Noem must resign now.

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John Jost @johnjost.bsky.social · Jun 18

Color me unsurprised. But thanks for the daily reminder.

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David Rand @dgrand.bsky.social · Jun 17

🚨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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John Jost @johnjost.bsky.social · Jun 14

You mean political conservatism as motivated social cognition?

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John Jost @johnjost.bsky.social · Jun 13

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

『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 …

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John Jost @johnjost.bsky.social · Jun 13

"A Theory of System Justification" is now available in Italian, thanks to translator and colleague extraordinaire @mgpacilli.bsky.social
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Per una teoria della giustificazione del sistema

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John Jost @johnjost.bsky.social · Jun 11

Thank you, Tom!

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Tom Hayes @tomhayes7.bsky.social · Jun 11

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

John Jost @johnjost.bsky.social · Mar 26

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

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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · Jun 9

"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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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 ....

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · Jun 8

“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.”

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · Jun 8

If you're curious

It’s time to change the way the media reports on protests. Here are some ideas.

"People kept sharing these videos that were coming up and it was unambiguous what was going on. We weren't looking at a stream of videos of violence erupting or clashes breaking out. We were looking a...

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John Jost @johnjost.bsky.social · May 28

APS is hosting the 2nd Global Psychological Science Summit: October 21-23, 2025. Our science faces many challenges right now, and this is a great opportunity for researchers all over the world to come together (virtually). Please submit by June 17. www.psychologicalscience.org/conventions/...

APS Global Psychological Science Summit

The APS Global Psychological Science Summit will take place virtually on October 21-23, 2025.

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John Jost @johnjost.bsky.social · Apr 17

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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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

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John Jost @johnjost.bsky.social · Oct 12

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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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