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Shouldn't you be talking about unbounded irrationality at this point?
Economic System Justification Predicts Stigmatization of Mental Illness in the United States -- new article in American Psychologist with Jussi Valtonen and @flavioazevedo.bsky.social
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I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Are we fighting the U.S. Civil War all over again?
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Brand new open access article: "Political Ideology as Historically Situated Motivated Social Cognition: Understanding Right-Wing Conservatism in Brazil" with Luana de Souza, Tiago de Lima, Cicero Roberto Pereira, and company.
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Brilliant new article by @suppes.bsky.social, @jnapier.bsky.social, @pjhenry.bsky.social, & @kodai-kusano.bsky.social: System justification is associated with African Americans' endorsement of symbolic racism against Blacks
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🌍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:
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!
Looks interesting.
Analysis of evangelical sermons.
System justification of inequality
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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.
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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Egalitarianism vs. the dark triad?
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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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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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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.
We told you they really, really, really, really cared about the Epstein case
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Thank you, @bettinaachwarzen and @volts.wtf
Color me unsurprised. But thanks for the daily reminder.
🚨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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You mean political conservatism as motivated social cognition?
Also available in Japanese, thanks to Hideya Kitamura: chitosepress.com/books/978-4-...
"A Theory of System Justification" is now available in Italian, thanks to translator and colleague extraordinaire @mgpacilli.bsky.social
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Thank you, Tom!
There should be a license to practice journalism and one requirement should be that you’ve read everything Jost has written
"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
#SocialPsyc
“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.”
