Political ideology: Its structure, functions, and elective affinities

JT Jost, CM Federico, JL Napier - Annual review of psychology, 2009 - annualreviews.org
Ideology has re-emerged as an important topic of inquiry among social, personality, and
political psychologists. In this review, we examine recent theory and research concerning …

The end of the end of ideology.

JT Jost - American psychologist, 2006 - psycnet.apa.org
The" end of ideology" was declared by social scientists in the aftermath of World War II. They
argued that (a) ordinary citizens' political attitudes lack the kind of stability, consistency, and …

Thirty years of terror management theory: From genesis to revelation

T Pyszczynski, S Solomon, J Greenberg - Advances in experimental social …, 2015 - Elsevier
Terror management theory posits that human awareness of the inevitability of death exerts a
profound influence on diverse aspects of human thought, emotion, motivation, and behavior …

Differences in negativity bias underlie variations in political ideology

JR Hibbing, KB Smith, JR Alford - Behavioral and brain sciences, 2014 - cambridge.org
Disputes between those holding differing political views are ubiquitous and deep-seated,
and they often follow common, recognizable lines. The supporters of tradition and stability …

On the precipice of a “majority-minority” America: Perceived status threat from the racial demographic shift affects White Americans' political ideology

MA Craig, JA Richeson - Psychological science, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
The US Census Bureau projects that racial minority groups will make up a majority of the US
national population in 2042, effectively creating a so-called majority-minority nation. In four …

The politics of fear: Is there an ideological asymmetry in existential motivation?

JT Jost, C Stern, NO Rule, J Sterling - Social cognition, 2017 - Guilford Press
A meta-analysis by Jost, Glaser, Kruglanski, and Sulloway (2003) suggested that existential
needs to reduce threat were associated with political conservatism. Nevertheless, some …

Political ideology as motivated social cognition: Behavioral and neuroscientific evidence

JT Jost, DM Amodio - Motivation and emotion, 2012 - Springer
Ideology is a potent motivational force; human beings are capable of committing atrocities
(as well as acts of generosity and courage) and sacrificing even their own lives for the sake …

The meaning maintenance model: On the coherence of social motivations

SJ Heine, T Proulx, KD Vohs - Personality and social …, 2006 - journals.sagepub.com
The meaning maintenance model (MMM) proposes that people have a needfor meaning;
that is, a need to perceive events through a prism of mental representations of expected …

Uncertainty–identity theory

MA Hogg - Advances in experimental social psychology, 2007 - Elsevier
While I write this chapter, millions of people in the Darfur province of Sudan have been
terrorized off their land; the entire population of Iraq has little idea what the future of their …

Ideology: Its resurgence in social, personality, and political psychology

JT Jost, BA Nosek, SD Gosling - … on Psychological Science, 2008 - journals.sagepub.com
We trace the rise, fall, and resurgence of political ideology as a topic of research in social,
personality, and political psychology. For over 200 years, political belief systems have been …