Supporting the status quo is weakly associated with subjective well-being: A comparison of the palliative function of ideology across social status groups using a meta …

S Vargas Salfate, J Spielmann, DA Briley - Psychological bulletin, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
Research has suggested that the endorsement of ideologies supporting the status quo leads
to higher subjective psychological well-being—an idea labeled as the palliative function of …

Liberal-conservative asymmetries in anti-democratic tendencies are partly explained by psychological differences in a nationally representative US sample

D de Oliveira Santos, JT Jost - Communications Psychology, 2024 - nature.com
Based on theory and research in political psychology, we hypothesized that liberal-
conservative differences in right-wing authoritarianism, social dominance orientation, and …

Right-wing authoritarianism and antipathy toward immigrants and sexual minorities in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic in Italy

MG Pacilli, S Pagliaro, V Bochicchio… - Frontiers in Political …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Theory and research in social, evolutionary, and political psychology indicates that
subjective feelings of threat and exposure to objectively threatening circumstances …

Further evidence that system justification decreases among extreme conservatives and the role of national populism

L Caricati, F Rossi - Journal of Community & Applied Social …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
This article replicates and extends previous results indicating that system justification, in a
pool of non‐American samples, decreases at the extremes of the political continuum. Data …

Finding (dis‐) advantaged system justifiers: A bottom‐up approach to explore system justification theory

R Kesberg, MJ Brandt, MJ Easterbrook… - European Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract System Justification Theory (SJT) postulates that individuals are motivated to justify
the status quo, including the paradoxical prediction that those who are disadvantaged (eg …

Political emotions in violent contexts: do moral shocks influence activism?

P Larzillière - International Review of Sociology, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Feelings of injustice and political engagement are often connected, sometimes
unquestioningly; the idea being that one generates the other along a sort of continuum. This …

Political and Psychological Processes Contributing to European Populisms of the Left and Right

EJ Rivera Pichardo, J Custodi, JT Jost - Political Psychology Perspectives …, 2024 - Springer
Populism, as a general belief system, is thought to combine an idealistic view of “the
people,” a cynical view of “the elites” as hopelessly corrupt, and a Manichean conception of …

Populism and Conspiracism: Challenging or Preserving the System to Live in a Meaningful World?

V Pellegrini, L Leone, V De Cristofaro, M Salvati… - Psychology …, 2024 - rosa.uniroma1.it
The present paper explores the relationships between the meaningfulness of the world,
system justification, populist attitudes, and conspiracy beliefs. Associations were …

Conspiracy Ideation and Populism

V Pellegrini, M Giacomantonio, L Leone - … Psychology Perspectives on …, 2024 - Springer
Worldviews characterizing conspiracy theories and populism present similar core beliefs
suggesting shared psychological features. Both are expressed through simplified narratives …

[BUCH][B] A Perceived System Justification Deficit Model of Outgroup Antipathy

U Liaquat - 2024 - search.proquest.com
Over two decades of research inspired by insights from System Justification Theory (Jost,
2020) and body of work on political conservatism as motivated social cognition (Jost, 2021) …