John T. Jost

John Thomas Jost (born 1968) is a social psychologist known for his work on system justification theory and the psychology of political ideology. Quotes If the Left-Right distinction did not exist, scholars of ideology would need to invent its equivalent. In Hibbing John R. Smith Kevin B. Alford John R. Predisposed: Liberals, Conservatives, and the Biology of Political Differences https://books.google.com/books?id=SVL7AAAAQBAJ 23 September 2013 Taylor & Francis 978-1-136-28121-1, from Jost, J.T. (2006). The end of the end of ideology. American Psychologist, 61, 651-670. Many people who lived under feudalism, the Crusades, slavery, communism, apartheid, and the Taliban believed that their systems were imperfect but morally defensible and better than the alternatives they could envision. In Marcus Gary Kluge: The Haphazard Evolution of the Human Mind https://books.google.com/books?id=ecdG3M876a8C April 2009 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 978-0-547-23824-1, and Diefenbach Thomas Management and the Dominance of Managers https://books.google.com/books?id=kcWOAgAAQBAJ 22 May 2009 Routledge 978-1-135-22766-1, from Jost, J.T., & Hunyady, O. (2005). Antecedents and consequences of system-justifying ideologies. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 14, 260-265. External links Category:Psychologists from the United States Category:1968 births Category:Living people