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Aaron C. Kay
45 works
· latest 2024
· 3 institutions
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ORCID 0000-0001-7895-0987
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Megastudy testing 25 treatments to reduce antidemocratic attitudes and partisan animosity
Science
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2024
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80 authors
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Open access
171
citations
Understanding contemporary forms of exploitation: Attributions of passion serve to legitimize the poor treatment of workers.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
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2019
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4 authors
111
citations
Compensatory control and religious beliefs: a registered replication report across two countries
Comprehensive Results in Social Psychology
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2018
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4 authors
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Open access
36
citations
When and why does belief in a controlling God strengthen goal commitment?
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
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2017
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5 authors
45
citations
Interventionist external agents make specific advice less demotivating
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
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2017
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5 authors
14
citations
Compensatory control and ambiguity intolerance
Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes
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2017
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2 authors
44
citations
The Motivational Underpinnings of Belief in God
Advances in experimental social psychology
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2017
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2 authors
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chapter
38
citations
On incidental catalysts of elaboration: Reminders of environmental structure promote effortful thought
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
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2016
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4 authors
9
citations
A Gender Bias in the Attribution of Creativity
Psychological Science
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2015
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3 authors
230
citations
Positive Stereotypes Are Pervasive and Powerful
Perspectives on Psychological Science
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2015
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3 authors
231
citations
Compensatory control and the appeal of a structured world.
Psychological Bulletin
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2015
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3 authors
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Open access
479
citations
Subjective Status Shapes Political Preferences
Psychological Science
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2014
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4 authors
234
citations
Reactance or Rationalization? Predicting Public Responses to Government Policy
Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences
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2014
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2 authors
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Open access
20
citations
The emotional roots of conspiratorial perceptions, system justification, and belief in the paranormal
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
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2014
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3 authors
156
citations
A Sense of Powerlessness Fosters System Justification: Implications for the Legitimation of Authority, Hierarchy, and Government
Political Psychology
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2014
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7 authors
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Open access
259
citations
Do Difficult Decisions Motivate Belief in Fate? A Test in the Context of the 2012 U.S. Presidential Election
Psychological Science
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2014
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3 authors
8
citations
Solution aversion: On the relation between ideology and motivated disbelief.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
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2014
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2 authors
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Open access
559
citations
Seeking structure in social organization: Compensatory control and the psychological advantages of hierarchy.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
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2014
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4 authors
227
citations
The history of psychology and social justice
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2014
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2 authors
6
citations
Differences in Punitiveness Across Three Cultures: A Test of American Exceptionalism in Justice Attitudes
bepress Legal Repository
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2013
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6 authors
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Open access
33
citations
On Social Stability and Social Change
Current Directions in Psychological Science
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2011
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2 authors
209
citations
On the perpetuation of ignorance: System dependence, system justification, and the motivated avoidance of sociopolitical information.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
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2011
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2 authors
191
citations
Divergent effects of activating thoughts of God on self-regulation.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
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2011
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3 authors
185
citations
When Your World Must Be Defended: Choosing Products to Justify the System
Journal of Consumer Research
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2011
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5 authors
104
citations
Evidence for the specificity of control motivations in worldview defense: Distinguishing compensatory control from uncertainty management and terror management processes
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
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2011
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4 authors
136
citations
Evidence that gendered wording in job advertisements exists and sustains gender inequality.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
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2011
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3 authors
688
citations
Social disadvantage and the self-regulatory function of justice beliefs.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
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2010
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3 authors
183
citations
Social Justice: History, Theory, and Research
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2010
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2 authors
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other
288
citations
Randomness, Attributions of Arousal, and Belief in God
Psychological Science
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2010
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3 authors
170
citations
For God (or) country: The hydraulic relation between government instability and belief in religious sources of control.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
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2010
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5 authors
209
citations
Religious Belief as Compensatory Control
Personality and Social Psychology Review
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2009
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4 authors
343
citations
Compensatory Control
Current Directions in Psychological Science
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2009
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4 authors
589
citations
Inequality, discrimination, and the power of the status quo: Direct evidence for a motivation to see the way things are as the way they should be.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
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2009
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7 authors
435
citations
On the belief in God: Towards an understanding of the emotional substrates of compensatory control
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
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2008
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3 authors
188
citations
God and the government: Testing a compensatory control mechanism for the support of external systems.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
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2008
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5 authors
808
citations
Panglossian Ideology In The Service Of System Justification: How Complementary Stereotypes Help Us To Rationalize Inequality
Advances in experimental social psychology
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2007
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5 authors
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chapter
167
citations
Victim Derogation and Victim Enhancement as Alternate Routes to System Justification
Psychological Science
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2005
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3 authors
295
citations
Exposure to Benevolent Sexism and Complementary Gender Stereotypes: Consequences for Specific and Diffuse Forms of System Justification.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
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2005
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2 authors
910
citations
Material priming: The influence of mundane physical objects on situational construal and competitive behavioral choice
Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes
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2004
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4 authors
390
citations
Language and Interpersonal Cognition: Causal Effects of Variations in Pronoun Usage on Perceptions of Closeness
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
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2004
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2 authors
155
citations
Adult attachment and the inhibition of rejection
Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology
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2003
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2 authors
95
citations
The perceptual push: The interplay of implicit cues and explicit situational construals on behavioral intentions in the Prisoner’s Dilemma
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
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2003
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2 authors
168
citations
Complementary Justice: Effects of "Poor but Happy" and "Poor but Honest" Stereotype Exemplars on System Justification and Implicit Activation of the Justice Motive.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
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2003
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2 authors
1,111
citations
Sour Grapes, Sweet Lemons, and the Anticipatory Rationalization of the Status Quo
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
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2002
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3 authors
218
citations
Sour Grapes and Sweet Lemons: The Rationalization of Anticipated Electoral Outcomes
RePEc: Research Papers in Economics
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2001
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3 authors
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preprint
0
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