US State Policies, Politics, and Life Expectancy Policy Points Changes in US state policies since the 1970s, particularly after 2010, have played an important role in the stagnation and recent decline in US life expectancy. Some US state polici...

Red state policies reduce life expectancy by 2-3 years

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Responses to Crises and Threats

Social Psychological Responses to Crises and Threats
NYU, May 29, 2026
One-day conference on research about how individuals and groups respond to societal crises, political threats, climate change, public health emergencies, and other large-scale challenges.
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There are now 25 (!) books in the Oxford University Press series on "Political Psychology"! Here they are. Please check out these books and spread the word about them! And we are still considering new book proposals.

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SPSSI Journals In social psychology these days it is commonplace to read or hear that liberal-leftists and conservative-rightists are every bit as “moral”; prejudiced and intolerant; susceptible to misinformation, ....

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A review and provocation: On polarization and platforms - Daniel Kreiss, Shannon C McGregor, 2024 Scholars increasingly point to polarization as a central threat to democracy—and identify technology platforms as key contributors to polarization. In contrast,...

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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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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio) YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

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.

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The War of Southern Aggression The MAGA reconstruction of the North is well underway

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.

<em>British Journal of Social Psychology</em> | Wiley Online Library The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has had a detrimental effect on people's mental health. Drawing on the palliative function of ideologies, we suggest that people rely on system-justif...

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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‘Self-termination is most likely’: the history and future of societal collapse An epic analysis of 5,000 years of civilisation argues that a global collapse is coming unless inequality is vanquished

Egalitarianism vs. the dark triad?
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Climate Privilege: Defensive disbelief in climate change science Two studies investigated climate privilege--an idea derived from existing research on racial and economic privilege. U.S. citizens consume a larger th…

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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Anger and Authoritarianism Mediate the Effects of Fear on Support for the Far Right—What Vasilopoulos et al. (2019) Really Found In an important study of popular support for the National Front following the November 13, 2015 terrorist attacks in France, Vasilopoulos, Marcus, Valentino, and Foucault (2019) argue that (1) anger—...

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.

Rumors in Retweet: Ideological Asymmetry in the Failure to Correct Misinformation - Matthew R. DeVerna, Andrew M. Guess, Adam J. Berinsky, Joshua A. Tucker, John T. Jost, 2024 We used supervised machine-learning techniques to examine ideological asymmetries in online rumor transmission. Although liberals were more likely than conserva...

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?

『システム正当化理論』内容紹介 システム正当化理論 ジョン・T. ジョスト著／北村英哉・池上知子・沼崎誠監訳 発行日: 2022年7月31日 …

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Per una teoria della giustificazione del sistema

"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