Jost Lab Group Members

Virginie Bonnot

(Now on Faculty at Paris V)
As a visiting scholar in the Jost Lab, I looked at how system justification beliefs may account for the effect of stereotypes on men's and women's math performance.

Irina Feygina

My research focuses on the processes and consequences of system justification for self and group attitudes among immigrants who have experience with multiple social systems and cultures.

Erin Hennes

My research centers on understanding status quo bias as motivated cognition. I am also interested in exploring how System Justification Theory can inform the law, and in particular the principle of stare decisis.

Margarita Krochik

My research focuses on the cognitive and motivational roots of ideology and their consequences for interpersonal relations....

Alison Ledgerwood

(Now on Faculty at The University of California at Davis)
I am interested in how ideological beliefs stem in part from a need to establish a shared view of reality with significant people in our lives...

Ido Liviatan

I am interested the motivational and cognitive underpinnings of system justification tendencies. I am currently involved in a research project that studies whether system justification efforts exhibit goal pursuit features.

Anesu Mandisodza

I am interested in people's psychological response to both static and dynamic systems...

Jaime Napier

(Now on Faculty at Yale University)
I am interested in how situational and cognitive factors motivate people to adopt certain ideologies...

Hulda Thorisdottir

(Now on Faculty at the University of Iceland)
I am interested in political ideology. More precisely, I ask what motivates people to adopt a particular ideology...

Jojanneke van der Toorn

I am interested in the social psychological mechanisms involved in how, why, and when people either resist or encourage, and subsequently engage in, social change...

Cheryl Wakslak

(Now on Faculty at the University of Southern California)
Why do so many people support the social system to which they belong, even when they are disadvantaged by that system? My research centers on this issue, trying to understand what it is that draws people to embrace system-justifying idologies...