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Journal Articles

  1. Stanley, ML; Huang, S; Marsh, EJ; Kay, AC (2023). The Role of Structure-Seeking in Moral Punishment. Social Justice Research, 36(4), 410-431. [doi]  [abs]
  2. Tang, S; Shepherd, S; Kay, AC (2023). Morality's role in the Black Sheep Effect: When and why ingroup members are judged more harshly than outgroup members for the same transgression. European Journal of Social Psychology, 53(7), 1605-1622. [doi]  [abs]
  3. Kay, AC; Ponce de Leon, R; Ho, AK; Kteily, NS (2023). Motivated Egalitarianism. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 32(4), 293-299. [doi]  [abs]
  4. Stanley, ML; Shepherd, S; Kay, AC (2023). Heroization and ironic funneling effects.. Journal of personality and social psychology, 125(1), 29-56. [doi]  [abs]
  5. Ma, A; Savani, K; Liu, F; Tai, K; Kay, AC (2023). The mutual constitution of culture and psyche: The bidirectional relationship between individuals' perceived control and cultural tightness-looseness.. Journal of personality and social psychology, 124(5), 901-916. [doi]  [abs]
  6. Gibbs, WC; Kim, HS; Kay, AC; Sherman, DK (2023). Who needs control? A cultural perspective on the process of compensatory control. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 17(2). [doi]  [abs]
  7. Kenthirarajah, DT; Camp, NP; Walton, GM; Kay, AC; Cohen, GL (2023). Does "Jamal" receive a harsher sentence than "James"? First-name bias in the criminal sentencing of Black men.. Law and human behavior, 47(1), 169-181. [doi]  [abs]
  8. Proudfoot, D; Kay, AC (2023). Communal expectations conflict with autonomy motives: The western drive for autonomy shapes women's negative responses to positive gender stereotypes.. Journal of personality and social psychology, 124(1), 1-21. [doi]  [abs]
  9. Stanley, ML; Kay, AC (2022). Belief in divine moral authority satisfies the psychological need for structure and increases in the face of perceived injustice. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 101. [doi]  [abs]
  10. Kay, AC; Gibbs, WC (2022). Inequality, Military Veteran Transitions, and Beyond: Compensatory Control Theory and Its Application to Real World Social Justice Problems.. Social justice research, 35(1), 56-61. [doi]
  11. Goya-Tocchetto, D; Kay, AC; Vuletich, H; Vonasch, A; Payne, K (2022). The partisan trade-off bias: When political polarization meets policy trade-offs. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 98. [doi]  [abs]
  12. Shepherd, S; Sherman, DK; MacLean, A; Kay, AC (2021). The Challenges of Military Veterans in Their Transition to the Workplace: A Call for Integrating Basic and Applied Psychological Science.. Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, 16(3), 590-613. [doi]  [abs]
  13. Brown-Iannuzzi, JL; Lundberg, KB; Kay, AC; Payne, BK (2021). A Privileged Point of View: Effects of Subjective Socioeconomic Status on Naïve Realism and Political Division.. Personality & social psychology bulletin, 47(2), 241-256. [doi]  [abs]
  14. Ponce de Leon, R; Wingrove, S; Kay, AC (2020). Scientific skepticism and inequality: Political and ideological roots. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 91. [doi]  [abs]
  15. Stanley, ML; Marsh, EJ; Kay, AC (2020). Structure-seeking as a psychological antecedent of beliefs about morality.. Journal of experimental psychology. General, 149(10), 1908-1918. [doi]  [abs]
  16. Ponce de Leon, R; Kay, AC (2020). Political ideology and compensatory control mechanisms. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 34, 112-117. [doi]  [abs]
  17. Axt, JR; Landau, MJ; Kay, AC (2020). The Psychological Appeal of Fake-News Attributions.. Psychological science, 31(7), 848-857. [doi]  [abs]
  18. Kim, JY; Campbell, TH; Shepherd, S; Kay, AC (2020). Understanding contemporary forms of exploitation: Attributions of passion serve to legitimize the poor treatment of workers.. Journal of personality and social psychology, 118(1), 121-148. [doi]  [abs]
  19. Ma, A; Tang, S; Kay, AC (2019). Psychological reactance as a function of thought versus behavioral control. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 84. [doi]  [abs]
  20. Ma, A; Axt, J; Kay, AC (2019). A control-based account of stereotyping. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 84. [doi]  [abs]
  21. Shepherd, S; Kay, AC; Gray, K (2019). Military veterans are morally typecast as agentic but unfeeling: Implications for veteran employment. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 153, 75-88. [doi]  [abs]
  22. Shepherd, S; Kay, AC (2019). ‘Jesus, take the wheel’: the appeal of spiritual products in satiating concerns about randomness. Journal of Marketing Management, 35(5-6), 467-490. [doi]  [abs]
  23. Laurin, K; Kay, AC; Landau, MJ (2018). Structure and Goal Pursuit: Individual and Cultural Differences. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 1(4), 491-494. [doi]
  24. Kim, JY; Fitzsimons, GM; Kay, AC (2018). Lean in messages increase attributions of women's responsibility for gender inequality.. Journal of personality and social psychology, 115(6), 974-1001. [doi]  [abs]
  25. Fath, S; Kay, AC (2018). “If hierarchical, then corrupt”: Exploring people's tendency to associate hierarchy with corruption in organizations. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 149, 145-164. [doi]  [abs]
  26. Hoogeveen, S; Wagenmakers, EJ; Kay, AC; Van Elk, M (2018). Compensatory control and religious beliefs: a registered replication report across two countries. Comprehensive Results in Social Psychology, 3(3), 240-265. [doi]  [abs]
  27. Friesen, JP; Laurin, K; Shepherd, S; Gaucher, D; Kay, AC (2018). System justification: Experimental evidence, its contextual nature, and implications for social change.. The British journal of social psychology. [doi]  [abs]
  28. Proudfoot, D; Kay, AC (2018). How perceptions of one's organization can affect perceptions of the self: Membership in a stable organization can sustain individuals' sense of control. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 76, 104-115. [doi]  [abs]
  29. Landau, MJ; Khenfer, J; Keefer, LA; Swanson, TJ; Kay, AC (2018). When and why does belief in a controlling God strengthen goal commitment?. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 75, 71-82. [doi]  [abs]
  30. Tang, S; King, M; Kay, AC (2018). Fate as a motivated (and de-motivating) belief: Evidence for a link from task importance to belief in fate to effort. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 144, 74-84. [doi]  [abs]
  31. Shepherd, S; Kay, AC (2018). Guns as a source of order and chaos: Compensatory control and the psychological (dis)utility of guns for liberals and conservatives. Journal of the Association for Consumer Research, 3(1), 16-26. [doi]  [abs]
  32. Fath, S; Proudfoot, D; Kay, AC (2017). Effective to a fault: Organizational structure predicts attitudes toward minority organizations. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 73, 290-297. [doi]  [abs]
  33. Shepherd, S; Eibach, RP; Kay, AC (2017). “One Nation Under God”: The System-Justifying Function of Symbolically Aligning God and Government. Political Psychology, 38(5), 703-720. [doi]  [abs]
  34. Ma, A; Landau, MJ; Narayanan, J; Kay, AC (2017). Thought-control difficulty motivates structure seeking.. Journal of experimental psychology. General, 146(8), 1067-1072. [doi]  [abs]
  35. Ma, A; Kay, AC (2017). Compensatory control and ambiguity intolerance. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 140, 46-61. [doi]  [abs]
  36. Khenfer, J; Laurin, K; Tafani, E; Roux, E; Kay, AC (2017). Interventionist external agents make specific advice less demotivating. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 73, 189-196. [doi]  [abs]
  37. Leander, NP; Kay, AC; Chartrand, TL; Payne, BK (2017). An affect misattribution pathway to perceptions of Intrinsic reward. Social Cognition, 35(2), 163-180. [doi]  [abs]
  38. Laurin, K; Kay, AC (2017). The Motivational Underpinnings of Belief in God, 56, 201-257. [doi]  [abs]
  39. Kay, AC; Brandt, MJ (2016). Ideology and intergroup inequality: emerging directions and trends. Current Opinion in Psychology, 11, 110-114. [doi]  [abs]
  40. Rahinel, R; Amaral, NB; Clarkson, JJ; Kay, AC (2016). On incidental catalysts of elaboration: Reminders of environmental structure promote effortful thought. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 64, 1-7. [doi]  [abs]
  41. Proudfoot, D; Kay, AC; Koval, CZ (2015). A Gender Bias in the Attribution of Creativity: Archival and Experimental Evidence for the Perceived Association Between Masculinity and Creative Thinking.. Psychological science, 26(11), 1751-1761. [doi]  [abs]
  42. Proudfoot, D; Kay, AC; Mann, H (2015). Motivated employee blindness: The impact of labor market instability on judgment of organizational inefficiencies. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 130, 108-122. [doi]  [abs]
  43. Czopp, AM; Kay, AC; Cheryan, S (2015). Positive Stereotypes Are Pervasive and Powerful.. Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, 10(4), 451-463. [doi]  [abs]
  44. Landau, MJ; Kay, AC; Whitson, JA (2015). Compensatory control and the appeal of a structured world.. Psychological bulletin, 141(3), 694-722. [doi]  [abs]
  45. Tullett, AM; Kay, AC; Inzlicht, M (2015). Randomness increases self-reported anxiety and neurophysiological correlates of performance monitoring.. Social cognitive and affective neuroscience, 10(5), 628-635. [doi]  [abs]
  46. Friesen, JP; Campbell, TH; Kay, AC (2015). The psychological advantage of unfalsifiability: the appeal of untestable religious and political ideologies.. Journal of personality and social psychology, 108(3), 515-529. [doi]  [abs]
  47. van der Toorn, J; Feinberg, M; Jost, JT; Kay, AC; Tyler, TR; Willer, R; Wilmuth, C (2015). A sense of powerlessness fosters system justification: Implications for the legitimation of authority, hierarchy, and government. Political Psychology, 36(1), 93-110. [doi]  [abs]
  48. Whitson, JA; Galinsky, AD; Kay, A (2015). The emotional roots of conspiratorial perceptions, system justification, and belief in the paranormal. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 56, 89-95. [doi]  [abs]
  49. Kay, A; Napier, J (2015). The justice motive as a driver of religious experience. Religion, Brain and Behavior, 5(3), 238-240. [doi]
  50. Brown-Iannuzzi, JL; Lundberg, KB; Kay, AC; Payne, BK (2015). Subjective status shapes political preferences.. Psychological science, 26(1), 15-26. [doi]  [abs]
  51. Campbell, T; Kay, A (2014). Solution Aversion: On the Relation Between Ideology and Motivated Disbelief. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 107(5), 809-824. [doi]  [abs]
  52. Callan, MJ; Kay, AC; Dawtry, RJ (2014). Making sense of misfortune: deservingness, self-esteem, and patterns of self-defeat.. Journal of personality and social psychology, 107(1), 142-162. [doi]  [abs]
  53. Tang, S; Shepherd, S; Kay, AC (2014). Do difficult decisions motivate belief in fate? A test in the context of the 2012 U.S. presidential election.. Psychological science, 25(4), 1046-1048. [doi]
  54. Kay, AC; Jost, JT (2014). Theoretical integration in motivational science: System justification as one of many "autonomous motivational structures".. The Behavioral and brain sciences, 37(2), 146-147. [doi]  [abs]
  55. Kay, AC; Laurin, K; Fitzsimons, GM; Landau, MJ (2014). A functional basis for structure-seeking: exposure to structure promotes willingness to engage in motivated action.. Journal of experimental psychology. General, 143(2), 486-491. [doi]  [abs]
  56. Friesen, JP; Kay, AC; Eibach, RP; Galinsky, AD (2014). Seeking structure in social organization: compensatory control and the psychological advantages of hierarchy.. Journal of personality and social psychology, 106(4), 590-609. [doi]  [abs]
  57. Proudfoot, D; Kay, AC (2014). System justification in organizational contexts: How a Motivated preference for the status quo can affect organizational attitudes and behaviors. Research in Organizational Behavior, 34, 173-187. [doi]  [abs]
  58. Shepherd, S; Kay, AC (2014). When government confidence undermines public involvement in modern disasters. Social Cognition, 32(3), 206-216. [doi]  [abs]
  59. Yeung, AWY; Kay, AC; Peach, JM (2014). Anti-feminist backlash: The role of system justification in the rejection of feminism. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 17(4), 474-484. [doi]  [abs]
  60. Kay, AC; Proudfoot, D (2014). Reactance of Rationalization? Predicting Public Responses to Government Policy. Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 1(1), 256-262. [doi]  [abs]
  61. Kugler, MB; Funk, F; Braun, J; Gollwitzer, M; Kay, AC; Darley, JM (2013). Differences in punitiveness across three cultures: A test of American exceptionalism in justice attitudes. Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, 103(4), 1071-1114. [Gateway.cgi]  [abs]
  62. Laurin, K; Kay, AC; Proudfoot, D; Fitzsimons, GJ (2013). Response to restrictive policies: Reconciling system justification and psychological reactance. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 122(2), 152-162. [doi]  [abs]
  63. Kay, AC; Eibach, RP (2013). Compensatory Control and Its Implications for Ideological Extremism. Journal of Social Issues, 69(3), 564-585. [Gateway.cgi], [doi]  [abs]
  64. Zhu, LL; Kay, AC; Eibach, RP (2013). A test of the flexible ideology hypothesis: System justification motives interact with ideological cueing to predict political judgments. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 49(4), 755-758. [doi]  [abs]
  65. Laurin, K; Gaucher, D; Kay, A (2013). Stability and the justification of social inequality. European Journal of Social Psychology, 43(4), 246-254. [doi]  [abs]
  66. Kay, AC; Day, MV; Zanna, MP; Nussbaum, AD (2013). The insidious (and ironic) effects of positive stereotypes. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 49(2), 287-291. [doi]  [abs]
  67. Sullivan, D; Landau, MJ; Kay, AC; Rothschild, ZK (2012). Collectivism and the meaning of suffering.. Journal of personality and social psychology, 103(6), 1023-1039. [Gateway.cgi], [doi]  [abs]
  68. Sullivan, D; Landau, MJ; Kay, AC (2012). Toward a comprehensive understanding of existential threat: Insights from paul tillich. Social Cognition, 30(6), 734-757. [Gateway.cgi], [doi]  [abs]
  69. Laurin, K; Shariff, AF; Henrich, J; Kay, AC (2012). Outsourcing punishment to God: beliefs in divine control reduce earthly punishment.. Proceedings. Biological sciences, 279(1741), 3272-3281. [doi]  [abs]
  70. Shepherd, S; Kay, AC (2012). On the perpetuation of ignorance: system dependence, system justification, and the motivated avoidance of sociopolitical information.. Journal of personality and social psychology, 102(2), 264-280. [doi]  [abs]
  71. Laurin, K; Kay, AC; Fitzsimons, GJ (2012). Reactance versus rationalization: divergent responses to policies that constrain freedom.. Psychological science, 23(2), 205-209. [22241813], [doi]  [abs]
  72. Laurin, K; Kay, AC; Fitzsimons, GM (2012). Divergent effects of activating thoughts of God on self-regulation.. Journal of personality and social psychology, 102(1), 4-21. [doi]  [abs]
  73. Kay, AC; Friesen, J (2011). On social stability and social change: Understanding when system justification does and does not occur. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 20(6), 360-364. [doi]  [abs]
  74. Shepherd, S; Kay, AC; Landau, MJ; Keefer, LA (2011). 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, 47(5), 949-958. [doi]  [abs]
  75. Day, MV; Kay, AC; Holmes, JG; Napier, JL (2011). System justification and the defense of committed relationship ideology.. Journal of personality and social psychology, 101(2), 291-306. [doi]  [abs]
  76. Laurin, K; Kay, AC; Shepherd, S (2011). Self-stereotyping as a route to system justification. Social Cognition, 29(3), 360-375. [doi]  [abs]
  77. Wheeler, SC; Smeesters, D; Kay, AC (2011). Culture modifies the operation of prime-to-behavior effects. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 47(4), 824-829. [doi]  [abs]
  78. Gaucher, D; Friesen, J; Kay, AC (2011). Evidence that gendered wording in job advertisements exists and sustains gender inequality.. Journal of personality and social psychology, 101(1), 109-128. [doi]  [abs]
  79. Cutright, KM; Wu, EC; Banfield, JC; Kay, AC; Fitzsimons, GJ (2011). When your world must be defended: Choosing products to justify the system. Journal of Consumer Research, 38(1), 62-77. [doi]  [abs]
  80. Banfield, JC; Kay, AC; Cutright, KM; Wu, EC; Fitzsimons, GJ (2011). A person by situation account of motivated system defense. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 2(2), 212-219. [doi]  [abs]
  81. Laurin, K; Fitzsimons, GM; Kay, AC (2011). Social disadvantage and the self-regulatory function of justice beliefs.. Journal of personality and social psychology, 100(1), 149-171. [doi]  [abs]
  82. Bobocel, DR; Kay, AC; Zanna, MP; Olson, JM (2011). The psychology of justice and legitimacy: The Ontario symposium. The Psychology of Justice and Legitimacy, 11, 1-350. [doi]  [abs]
  83. Kay, AC; Shepherd, S; Blatz, CW; Chua, SN; Galinsky, AD (2010). For God (or) country: the hydraulic relation between government instability and belief in religious sources of control.. Journal of personality and social psychology, 99(5), 725-739. [20954784], [doi]  [abs]
  84. Anderson, JE; Kay, AC; Fitzsimons, GM (2010). In search of the silver lining: the justice motive fosters perceptions of benefits in the later lives of tragedy victims.. Psychological science, 21(11), 1599-1604. [doi]  [abs]
  85. Laurin, K; Shepherd, S; Kay, AC (2010). Restricted emigration, system inescapability, and defense of the status quo: system-justifying consequences of restricted exit opportunities.. Psychological science, 21(8), 1075-1082. [doi]  [abs]
  86. Callan, MJ; Kay, AC; Olson, JM; Brar, N; Whitefield, N (2010). The effects of priming legal concepts on perceived trust and competitiveness, self-interested attitudes, and competitive behavior. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 46(2), 325-335. [doi]  [abs]
  87. Kay, AC; Moscovitch, DA; Laurin, K (2010). Randomness, attributions of arousal, and belief in god.. Psychological science, 21(2), 216-218. [doi]
  88. Kay, AC; Gaucher, D; McGregor, I; Nash, K (2010). Religious belief as compensatory control.. Personality and social psychology review : an official journal of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Inc, 14(1), 37-48. [doi]  [abs]
  89. Gaucher, D; Hafer, CL; Kay, AC; Davidenko, N (2010). Compensatory rationalizations and the resolution of everyday undeserved outcomes.. Personality & social psychology bulletin, 36(1), 109-118. [doi]  [abs]
  90. Smeesters, D; Wheeler, SC; Kay, AC (2010). Chapter Five: Indirect prime-to-behavior effects: The role of perceptions of the self, others, and situations in connecting primed constructs to social behavior. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 42, 259-317. [doi]  [abs]
  91. Kay, AC; Whitson, JA; Gaucher, D; Galinsky, AD (2009). Compensatory control: Achieving order through the mind, our institutions, and the heavens. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 18(5), 264-268. [doi]  [abs]
  92. Kay, AC; Gaucher, D; Peach, JM; Laurin, K; Friesen, J; Zanna, MP; Spencer, SJ (2009). 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, 97(3), 421-434. [doi]  [abs]
  93. Callan, MJ; Kay, AC; Davidenko, N; Ellard, JH (2009). The effects of justice motivation on memory for self- and other-relevant events. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 45(4), 614-623. [doi]  [abs]
  94. Bryan, CJ; Dweck, CS; Ross, L; Kay, AC; Mislavsky, NO (2009). Political mindset: Effects of schema priming on liberal-conservative political positions. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 45(4), 890-895. [doi]  [abs]
  95. Jost, JT; Kay, AC; Thorisdottir, H (2009). Social and Psychological Bases of Ideology and System Justification. Social and Psychological Bases of Ideology and System Justification, 1-552. [doi]  [abs]
  96. Kay, AC; Zanna, MP (2009). A Contextual Analysis of the System Justification Motive and Its Societal Consequences, 158-182. [doi]  [abs]
  97. Kay, AC; Czapliński, S; Jost, JT (2009). Left-right ideological differences in system Justification following exposure to complementary versus noncomplementary stereotype exemplars. European Journal of Social Psychology, 39(2), 290-298. [doi]  [abs]
  98. Smeesters, D; Wheeler, SC; Kay, AC (2009). The role of interpersonal perceptions in the prime-to-behavior pathway.. Journal of personality and social psychology, 96(2), 395-414. [doi]  [abs]
  99. Laurin, K; Kay, AC; Moscovitch, DA (2008). On the belief in God: Towards an understanding of the emotional substrates of compensatory control. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44(6), 1559-1562. [doi]  [abs]
  100. Kay, AC; Gaucher, D; Napier, JL; Callan, MJ; Laurin, K (2008). God and the government: testing a compensatory control mechanism for the support of external systems.. Journal of personality and social psychology, 95(1), 18-35. [doi]  [abs]
  101. Kay, AC; Wheeler, SC; Smeesters, D (2008). The situated person: Effects of construct accessibility on situation construals and interpersonal perception. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44(2), 275-291. [doi]  [abs]
  102. Lau, GP; Kay, AC; Spencer, SJ (2008). Loving those who justify inequality: the effects of system threat on attraction to women who embody benevolent sexist ideals.. Psychological science, 19(1), 20-21. [doi]
  103. Kay, AC; Jost, JT; Mandisodza, AN; Sherman, SJ; Petrocelli, JV; Johnson, AL (2007). Panglossian Ideology In The Service Of System Justification: How Complementary Stereotypes Help Us To Rationalize Inequality. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 39, 305-358. [doi]  [abs]
  104. Jost, JT; Kay, AC (2005). Exposure to benevolent sexism and complementary gender stereotypes: consequences for specific and diffuse forms of system justification.. Journal of personality and social psychology, 88(3), 498-509. [doi]  [abs]
  105. Kay, AC; Jost, JT; Young, S (2005). Victim derogation and victim enhancement as alternate routes to system justification.. Psychological science, 16(3), 240-246. [doi]  [abs]
  106. Kay, AC; Wheeler, SC; Bargh, JA; Ross, L (2004). Material priming: The influence of mundane physical objects on situational construal and competitive behavioral choice. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 95(1), 83-96. [doi]  [abs]
  107. Fitzsimons, GM; Kay, AC (2004). Language and interpersonal cognition: causal effects of variations in pronoun usage on perceptions of closeness.. Personality & social psychology bulletin, 30(5), 547-557. [doi]  [abs]
  108. Kay, AC; Jost, JT (2003). 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, 85(5), 823-837. [doi]  [abs]
  109. Baldwin, MW; Kay, AC (2003). Adult attachment and the inhibition of rejection. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 22(3), 275-293. [doi]  [abs]
  110. Mendelson, MJ; Kay, AC (2003). Positive feelings in friendship: Does imbalance in the relationship matter?. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 20(1), 101-116. [doi]  [abs]
  111. Kay, AC; Ross, L (2003). 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, 39(6), 634-643. [doi]  [abs]
  112. Kay, AC; Jimenez, MC; Jost, JT (2002). Sour grapes, sweet lemons, and the anticipatory rationalization of the status quo. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 28(9), 1300-1312. [doi]  [abs]

Books

  1. Gaucher, D; Kay, AC; Laurin, K (2011). The Power of the status quo: Consequences for maintaining and perpetuating inequality.. PSYCHOLOGY PRESS. [doi]
  2. Ramona Bobocel, D; Kay, AC; Zanna, MP; Olson, JM (2011). The psychology of justice and legitimacy: The Ontario symposium. [doi]  [abs]
  3. Thorisdottir, H; Jost, JT; Kay, AC (2009). On the Social and Psychological Bases of Ideology and System Justification.. Oxford University Press. [doi]  [abs]

Chapters in Books

  1. Axt, JR; Landau, MJ; Kay, AC "Fake news attributions as a source of nonspecific structure." The Psychology of Fake News: Accepting, Sharing, and Correcting Misinformation. January, 2020: 220-234. [doi]  [abs]
  2. Shepherd, S; Kay, AC "Politics and religion: commutable, conflicting, and collaborative systems for satisfying the need for order." The Science of Religion, Spirituality, and Existentialism. January, 2020: 421-434. [doi]  [abs]
  3. Rutjens, BT; Kay, AC "Compensatory control theory and the psychological importance of perceiving order." Coping with Lack of Control in a Social World. Routledge, November, 2016: 83-96. [doi]
  4. Shepherd, S; Kay, AC; Eibach, RP "ACHIEVING EXISTENTIAL SECURITY THROUGH SYMBOLICALLY FUSING SECULAR AND RELIGIOUS SOURCES OF CONTROL AND ORDER." Handbook of Personal Security. January, 2015: 241-256. [doi]  [abs]
  5. Kay, AC; Anderson, JE; Fitzsimons, GM "The motivated process of making meaning from negative experiences." The Psychology of Meaning. American Psychological Association, 2014
  6. Kay, AC; Landau, MJ; Sullivan, DL "Agency and Control." APA Handbook of Personality and Social Psychology: Attitudes and Social Cognition. Ed. Bargh, J; Borgida, E American Psychological Association, 2014
  7. Banfield, JC; Shepherd, S; Kay, AC "Consequences of system defense motivations for individuals’ willingness to act sustainably." Encouraging Sustainable Behavior: Psychology and the Environment. PSYCHOLOGY PRESS, January, 2013: 111-124. [doi]
  8. Kay, AC; Sullivan, DL "Cultural unity and diversity in compensatory control." Advances in Culture and Psychology. Ed. Gelfand, M; Yue, C; Hong, Y Oxford University Press, 2013
  9. Jost, JT; Kay, AC "System justification as an obstacle to the attainment of social justice." Social Thinking and Interpersonal Behavior. PSYCHOLOGY PRESS, January, 2012: 277-296. [doi]
  10. Kay, AC; Eibach, RP "The ideological toolbox: Ideologies as tools of motivated social cognition." The SAGE Handbook of Social Cognition. SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD, January, 2012: 495-515. [doi]
  11. Kay, AC; Callan, MJ "Associations between law, competitiveness, and the pursuit of self-interest." Psychology, Ideology, and Law. Ed. Hanson, J Oxford University Press (OUP), 2012: 193-218. [doi]  [abs]
  12. Kay, AC; Eibach, RP "Ideological Processes." The Handbook of Social Cognition. Ed. Fiske, S; MaCrae, N Oxford University Press, 2012
  13. Ramona Bobocel, D; Kay, AC; Zanna, MP; Olson, JM "Preface."  January, 2011: vii-xiv. [doi]
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  15. Kay, AC; Gaucher, D; Laurin, K "The power of the status quo: Consequences for maintaining and perpetuating inequality." The Psychology of Justice and Legitimacy: The Ontario Symposium (Vol. 11). Ed. Bobocel, R; Kay, M; Zanna, P; Olson, JM Psychology Press, 2010: 109-118.
  16. Kay, AC; Banfield, J; Laurin, K "Ideology and power." The Social Psychology of Power. Ed. Vescio, T; Guinote, A Guilford Press, 2010
  17. Kay, AC; Zanna, MP "A contextual analysis of the social and psychological consequences of system justification." Social & Psychological Bases of Ideology and System Justification. Ed. Jost, JT; Thoristtodor, H Oxford University Press, 2009
  18. Kay, AC; Jost, JT; Fitzsimons, GM "The Ideological Animal: On the Epistemic and Existential Bases of System Justification." Handbook of Experimental Existential Psychology. Ed. Greenberg, J; Koole, SL; Pyszczynsk, T Guilford Press, 2004

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