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. (23 September 2013). Predisposed: Liberals, Conservatives, and the Biology of Political Differences. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 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 (April 2009). Kluge: The Haphazard Evolution of the Human Mind. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 978-0-547-23824-1. , and Diefenbach, Thomas (22 May 2009). Management and the Dominance of Managers. Routledge. ISBN 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.