| For God (or) country: the hydraulic relation between government instability and belief in religious sources of control. AC Kay, S Shepherd, CW Blatz, SN Chua, AD Galinsky Journal of personality and social psychology 99 (5), 725, 2010 | 285 | 2010 |
| On the perpetuation of ignorance: System dependence, system justification, and the motivated avoidance of sociopolitical information. S Shepherd, AC Kay Journal of personality and social psychology 102 (2), 264, 2012 | 237 | 2012 |
| Restricted emigration, system inescapability, and defense of the status quo: System-justifying consequences of restricted exit opportunities K Laurin, S Shepherd, AC Kay Psychological Science 21 (8), 1075-1082, 2010 | 192 | 2010 |
| Evidence for the Specificity of Control Motivations in Worldview Defense: Distinguishing Compensatory Control from Uncertainty Management and Terror Management Processes S Shepherd, AC Kay, MJ Landau, LA Keefer Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 47 (5), 949-58, 2011 | 188 | 2011 |
| When brands reflect our ideal world: The values and brand preferences of consumers who support versus reject society’s dominant ideology S Shepherd, TL Chartrand, GJ Fitzsimons Journal of Consumer Research 42 (1), 76-92, 2015 | 125 | 2015 |
| Rewriting the self-fulfilling prophecy of social rejection: Self-affirmation improves relational security and social behavior up to 2 months later DA Stinson, C Logel, S Shepherd, MP Zanna Psychological science 22 (9), 1145-1149, 2011 | 113 | 2011 |
| System justification: Experimental evidence, its contextual nature, and implications for social change JP Friesen, K Laurin, S Shepherd, D Gaucher, AC Kay British Journal of Social Psychology 58 (2), 315-339, 2019 | 109 | 2019 |
| Self-stereotyping as a route to system justification K Laurin, AC Kay, S Shepherd Social Cognition 29 (3), 360-375, 2011 | 109 | 2011 |
| Understanding contemporary forms of exploitation: Attributions of passion serve to legitimize the poor treatment of workers. JY Kim, TH Campbell, S Shepherd, AC Kay Journal of personality and social psychology 118 (1), 121, 2020 | 104 | 2020 |
| Trait forgiveness and traitedness within the HEXACO model of personality S Shepherd, K Belicki Personality and Individual Differences 45 (5), 389-394, 2008 | 104 | 2008 |
| The challenges of military veterans in their transition to the workplace: A call for integrating basic and applied psychological science S Shepherd, DK Sherman, A MacLean, AC Kay Perspectives on Psychological Science 16 (3), 590-613, 2021 | 91 | 2021 |
| Military veterans are morally typecast as agentic but unfeeling: Implications for veteran employment S Shepherd, AC Kay, K Gray Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 153, 75-88, 2019 | 80 | 2019 |
| Guns as a source of order and chaos: Compensatory control and the psychological (dis) utility of guns for liberals and conservatives S Shepherd, AC Kay Journal of the Association for Consumer Research 3 (1), 16-26, 2018 | 50 | 2018 |
| Customer empowerment in the face of perceived Incompetence: Effect on preference for anthropomorphized brands J Khenfer, S Shepherd, O Trendel Journal of Business Research 118, 1-11, 2020 | 35 | 2020 |
| “One nation under God”: the system‐justifying function of symbolically aligning god and government S Shepherd, RP Eibach, AC Kay Political Psychology 38 (5), 703-720, 2017 | 33 | 2017 |
| Sincere, Not Sinful: Political Ideology and the Unique Role of Brand Sincerity in Shaping Heterosexual and LGBTQ Consumers’ Views of LGBTQ Ads S Shepherd, TL Chartrand, GJ Fitzsimons Journal of the Association for Consumer Research, 2021 | 25 | 2021 |
| When government confidence undermines public involvement in modern disasters S Shepherd, AC Kay Social Cognition 32 (3), 206-216, 2014 | 19 | 2014 |
| The effect of egocentric taste judgments on stereotyping of welfare recipients and attitudes toward welfare policy S Shepherd, T Campbell Journal of Public Policy & Marketing 39 (1), 1-14, 2020 | 18 | 2020 |
| Compensatory institutional trust: A “dark side” of trust E Shockley, S Shepherd Interdisciplinary perspectives on trust: Towards theoretical and …, 2016 | 15 | 2016 |
| Do Difficult Decisions Motivate Belief in Fate? A Test in the Context of the 2012 US Presidential Election S Tang, S Shepherd, AC Kay Psychological science 25 (4), 1046-1048, 2014 | 13 | 2014 |