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Jojanneke van der Toorn
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jojanneke at nyu dot edu
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Personal Information
Hometown:
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Undergraduate Major:
MA in Organizational Psychology, 2003
MA in Political Anthropology, 2005
Undergraduate Institution:
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Research Interests
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. One line of research focuses on the motivations and cognitions underlying people’s tendency to endorse prevailing social, political, and economic arrangements, which is referred to as system justification. I am currently involved in a project aimed at examining whether system justification efforts exhibit the psychological properties of goal pursuit. A second series of studies I am designing focus on the ideological and motivational underpinnings of the status quo bias. Another set of studies will investigate the relationship between power differentials, legitimacy perceptions, and fairness judgments. We hypothesize that people are influenced by the power and status of an individual when ascribing legitimacy and fairness to their actions.
The second line of research explores social and psychological antecedents of political participation and protest behavior. Currently, I am researching the relationship between perceived distributive and procedural fairness of the government and political protest activities in the US and the Netherlands. And, broadly, I am always seeking out opportunities to draw from psychological, anthropological and sociological theories and apply interdisciplinary techniques to address pressing social issues.
Current Projects
Curriculum Vitae (Microsoft Word format)
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