Publications of Aaron C. Kay

  1. Stanley, ML; Huang, S; Marsh, EJ; Kay, AC, The Role of Structure-Seeking in Moral Punishment, Social Justice Research, vol. 36 no. 4 (December, 2023), pp. 410-431
  2. Tang, S; Shepherd, S; Kay, AC, 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, vol. 53 no. 7 (December, 2023), pp. 1605-1622
  3. Kay, AC; Ponce de Leon, R; Ho, AK; Kteily, NS, Motivated Egalitarianism, Current Directions in Psychological Science, vol. 32 no. 4 (August, 2023), pp. 293-299
  4. Stanley, ML; Shepherd, S; Kay, AC, Heroization and ironic funneling effects., Journal of personality and social psychology, vol. 125 no. 1 (July, 2023), pp. 29-56
  5. Jost, JT; Goya-Tocchetto, D; Kay, AC, The Psychology of Left-Right Political Polarization; and an Experimental Intervention for Curbing Partisan Animosity and Support for Antidemocratic Violence, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, vol. 708 no. 1 (July, 2023), pp. 46-63
  6. Ma, A; Savani, K; Liu, F; Tai, K; Kay, AC, The mutual constitution of culture and psyche: The bidirectional relationship between individuals' perceived control and cultural tightness-looseness., Journal of personality and social psychology, vol. 124 no. 5 (May, 2023), pp. 901-916
  7. Gibbs, WC; Kim, HS; Kay, AC; Sherman, DK, Who needs control? A cultural perspective on the process of compensatory control, Social and Personality Psychology Compass, vol. 17 no. 2 (February, 2023)
  8. Kenthirarajah, DT; Camp, NP; Walton, GM; Kay, AC; Cohen, GL, Does "Jamal" receive a harsher sentence than "James"? First-name bias in the criminal sentencing of Black men., Law and human behavior, vol. 47 no. 1 (February, 2023), pp. 169-181
  9. Proudfoot, D; Kay, AC, 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, vol. 124 no. 1 (January, 2023), pp. 1-21
  10. Stanley, ML; Kay, AC, Belief in divine moral authority satisfies the psychological need for structure and increases in the face of perceived injustice, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, vol. 101 (July, 2022)
  11. Kay, AC; Gibbs, WC, Inequality, Military Veteran Transitions, and Beyond: Compensatory Control Theory and Its Application to Real World Social Justice Problems., Social justice research, vol. 35 no. 1 (January, 2022), pp. 56-61
  12. Goya-Tocchetto, D; Kay, AC; Vuletich, H; Vonasch, A; Payne, K, The partisan trade-off bias: When political polarization meets policy trade-offs, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, vol. 98 (January, 2022)
  13. Shepherd, S; Sherman, DK; MacLean, A; Kay, AC, 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, vol. 16 no. 3 (May, 2021), pp. 590-613
  14. Brown-Iannuzzi, JL; Lundberg, KB; Kay, AC; Payne, BK, A Privileged Point of View: Effects of Subjective Socioeconomic Status on Naïve Realism and Political Division., Personality & social psychology bulletin, vol. 47 no. 2 (February, 2021), pp. 241-256
  15. Ponce de Leon, R; Wingrove, S; Kay, AC, Scientific skepticism and inequality: Political and ideological roots, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, vol. 91 (November, 2020)
  16. Stanley, ML; Marsh, EJ; Kay, AC, Structure-seeking as a psychological antecedent of beliefs about morality., Journal of experimental psychology. General, vol. 149 no. 10 (October, 2020), pp. 1908-1918
  17. Ponce de Leon, R; Kay, AC, Political ideology and compensatory control mechanisms, Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, vol. 34 (August, 2020), pp. 112-117
  18. Axt, JR; Landau, MJ; Kay, AC, The Psychological Appeal of Fake-News Attributions., Psychological science, vol. 31 no. 7 (July, 2020), pp. 848-857
  19. Kim, JY; Campbell, TH; Shepherd, S; Kay, AC, Understanding contemporary forms of exploitation: Attributions of passion serve to legitimize the poor treatment of workers., Journal of personality and social psychology, vol. 118 no. 1 (January, 2020), pp. 121-148
  20. Axt, JR; Landau, MJ; Kay, AC, Fake news attributions as a source of nonspecific structure, in The Psychology of Fake News: Accepting, Sharing, and Correcting Misinformation (January, 2020), pp. 220-234, ISBN 9781000179033
  21. Shepherd, S; Kay, AC, Politics and religion: commutable, conflicting, and collaborative systems for satisfying the need for order, in The Science of Religion, Spirituality, and Existentialism (January, 2020), pp. 421-434, ISBN 9780128172056
  22. Ma, A; Tang, S; Kay, AC, Psychological reactance as a function of thought versus behavioral control, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, vol. 84 (September, 2019)
  23. Ma, A; Axt, J; Kay, AC, A control-based account of stereotyping, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, vol. 84 (September, 2019)
  24. Shepherd, S; Kay, AC; Gray, K, Military veterans are morally typecast as agentic but unfeeling: Implications for veteran employment, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, vol. 153 (July, 2019), pp. 75-88
  25. Shepherd, S; Kay, AC, ‘Jesus, take the wheel’: the appeal of spiritual products in satiating concerns about randomness, Journal of Marketing Management, vol. 35 no. 5-6 (March, 2019), pp. 467-490
  26. Laurin, K; Kay, AC; Landau, MJ, Structure and Goal Pursuit: Individual and Cultural Differences, Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, vol. 1 no. 4 (December, 2018), pp. 491-494
  27. Kim, JY; Fitzsimons, GM; Kay, AC, Lean in messages increase attributions of women's responsibility for gender inequality., Journal of personality and social psychology, vol. 115 no. 6 (December, 2018), pp. 974-1001
  28. Fath, S; Kay, AC, “If hierarchical, then corrupt”: Exploring people's tendency to associate hierarchy with corruption in organizations, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, vol. 149 (November, 2018), pp. 145-164, Elsevier BV
  29. Hoogeveen, S; Wagenmakers, EJ; Kay, AC; Van Elk, M, Compensatory control and religious beliefs: a registered replication report across two countries, Comprehensive Results in Social Psychology, vol. 3 no. 3 (September, 2018), pp. 240-265
  30. Friesen, JP; Laurin, K; Shepherd, S; Gaucher, D; Kay, AC, System justification: Experimental evidence, its contextual nature, and implications for social change., The British journal of social psychology (September, 2018)
  31. Proudfoot, D; Kay, AC, 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, vol. 76 (May, 2018), pp. 104-115, Elsevier BV
  32. Landau, MJ; Khenfer, J; Keefer, LA; Swanson, TJ; Kay, AC, When and why does belief in a controlling God strengthen goal commitment?, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, vol. 75 (March, 2018), pp. 71-82, Elsevier BV
  33. Tang, S; King, M; Kay, AC, 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, vol. 144 (January, 2018), pp. 74-84, Elsevier BV
  34. Shepherd, S; Kay, AC, 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, vol. 3 no. 1 (January, 2018), pp. 16-26
  35. Fath, S; Proudfoot, D; Kay, AC, Effective to a fault: Organizational structure predicts attitudes toward minority organizations, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, vol. 73 (November, 2017), pp. 290-297, Elsevier BV
  36. Shepherd, S; Eibach, RP; Kay, AC, “One Nation Under God”: The System-Justifying Function of Symbolically Aligning God and Government, Political Psychology, vol. 38 no. 5 (October, 2017), pp. 703-720, WILEY
  37. Ma, A; Landau, MJ; Narayanan, J; Kay, AC, Thought-control difficulty motivates structure seeking., Journal of experimental psychology. General, vol. 146 no. 8 (August, 2017), pp. 1067-1072
  38. Ma, A; Kay, AC, Compensatory control and ambiguity intolerance, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, vol. 140 (May, 2017), pp. 46-61, Elsevier BV
  39. Khenfer, J; Laurin, K; Tafani, E; Roux, E; Kay, AC, Interventionist external agents make specific advice less demotivating, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, vol. 73 (January, 2017), pp. 189-196
  40. Leander, NP; Kay, AC; Chartrand, TL; Payne, BK, An affect misattribution pathway to perceptions of Intrinsic reward, Social Cognition, vol. 35 no. 2 (January, 2017), pp. 163-180, Guilford Publications
  41. Laurin, K; Kay, AC, The Motivational Underpinnings of Belief in God, vol. 56 (January, 2017), pp. 201-257, Elsevier
  42. Rutjens, BT; Kay, AC, Compensatory control theory and the psychological importance of perceiving order, in Coping with Lack of Control in a Social World (November, 2016), pp. 83-96, Routledge, ISBN 9781138957923
  43. Kay, AC; Brandt, MJ, Ideology and intergroup inequality: emerging directions and trends, Current Opinion in Psychology, vol. 11 (October, 2016), pp. 110-114, Elsevier BV
  44. Rahinel, R; Amaral, NB; Clarkson, JJ; Kay, AC, On incidental catalysts of elaboration: Reminders of environmental structure promote effortful thought, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, vol. 64 (May, 2016), pp. 1-7, Elsevier BV
  45. Proudfoot, D; Kay, AC; Koval, CZ, A Gender Bias in the Attribution of Creativity: Archival and Experimental Evidence for the Perceived Association Between Masculinity and Creative Thinking., Psychological science, vol. 26 no. 11 (November, 2015), pp. 1751-1761
  46. Proudfoot, D; Kay, AC; Mann, H, Motivated employee blindness: The impact of labor market instability on judgment of organizational inefficiencies, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, vol. 130 (July, 2015), pp. 108-122, Elsevier BV
  47. Czopp, AM; Kay, AC; Cheryan, S, Positive Stereotypes Are Pervasive and Powerful., Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, vol. 10 no. 4 (July, 2015), pp. 451-463
  48. Landau, MJ; Kay, AC; Whitson, JA, Compensatory control and the appeal of a structured world., Psychological bulletin, vol. 141 no. 3 (May, 2015), pp. 694-722, ISSN 0033-2909
  49. Tullett, AM; Kay, AC; Inzlicht, M, Randomness increases self-reported anxiety and neurophysiological correlates of performance monitoring., Social cognitive and affective neuroscience, vol. 10 no. 5 (May, 2015), pp. 628-635, ISSN 1749-5016
  50. Friesen, JP; Campbell, TH; Kay, AC, The psychological advantage of unfalsifiability: the appeal of untestable religious and political ideologies., Journal of personality and social psychology, vol. 108 no. 3 (March, 2015), pp. 515-529, ISSN 0022-3514
  51. van der Toorn, J; Feinberg, M; Jost, JT; Kay, AC; Tyler, TR; Willer, R; Wilmuth, C, A sense of powerlessness fosters system justification: Implications for the legitimation of authority, hierarchy, and government, Political Psychology, vol. 36 no. 1 (February, 2015), pp. 93-110, ISSN 0162-895X
  52. Whitson, JA; Galinsky, AD; Kay, A, The emotional roots of conspiratorial perceptions, system justification, and belief in the paranormal, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, vol. 56 (January, 2015), pp. 89-95, Elsevier BV, ISSN 0022-1031
  53. Kay, A; Napier, J, The justice motive as a driver of religious experience, Religion, Brain and Behavior, vol. 5 no. 3 (January, 2015), pp. 238-240, Informa UK Limited, ISSN 2153-599X
  54. Brown-Iannuzzi, JL; Lundberg, KB; Kay, AC; Payne, BK, Subjective status shapes political preferences., Psychological science, vol. 26 no. 1 (January, 2015), pp. 15-26
  55. Shepherd, S; Kay, AC; Eibach, RP, ACHIEVING EXISTENTIAL SECURITY THROUGH SYMBOLICALLY FUSING SECULAR AND RELIGIOUS SOURCES OF CONTROL AND ORDER, in Handbook of Personal Security (January, 2015), pp. 241-256, ISBN 9781848726758
  56. Campbell, T; Kay, A, Solution Aversion: On the Relation Between Ideology and Motivated Disbelief, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, vol. 107 no. 5 (November, 2014), pp. 809-824, American Psychological Association, ISSN 0022-3514
  57. Callan, MJ; Kay, AC; Dawtry, RJ, Making sense of misfortune: deservingness, self-esteem, and patterns of self-defeat., Journal of personality and social psychology, vol. 107 no. 1 (July, 2014), pp. 142-162, ISSN 0022-3514
  58. Tang, S; Shepherd, S; Kay, AC, Do difficult decisions motivate belief in fate? A test in the context of the 2012 U.S. presidential election., Psychological science, vol. 25 no. 4 (April, 2014), pp. 1046-1048, ISSN 0956-7976
  59. Kay, AC; Jost, JT, Theoretical integration in motivational science: System justification as one of many "autonomous motivational structures"., The Behavioral and brain sciences, vol. 37 no. 2 (April, 2014), pp. 146-147, ISSN 0140-525X
  60. Kay, AC; Laurin, K; Fitzsimons, GM; Landau, MJ, A functional basis for structure-seeking: exposure to structure promotes willingness to engage in motivated action., Journal of experimental psychology. General, vol. 143 no. 2 (April, 2014), pp. 486-491, ISSN 0096-3445
  61. Friesen, JP; Kay, AC; Eibach, RP; Galinsky, AD, Seeking structure in social organization: compensatory control and the psychological advantages of hierarchy., Journal of personality and social psychology, vol. 106 no. 4 (April, 2014), pp. 590-609, ISSN 0022-3514
  62. Proudfoot, D; Kay, AC, System justification in organizational contexts: How a Motivated preference for the status quo can affect organizational attitudes and behaviors, Research in Organizational Behavior, vol. 34 (January, 2014), pp. 173-187, ISSN 0191-3085
  63. Shepherd, S; Kay, AC, When government confidence undermines public involvement in modern disasters, Social Cognition, vol. 32 no. 3 (January, 2014), pp. 206-216, Guilford Publications, ISSN 0278-016X
  64. Yeung, AWY; Kay, AC; Peach, JM, Anti-feminist backlash: The role of system justification in the rejection of feminism, Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, vol. 17 no. 4 (January, 2014), pp. 474-484, SAGE Publications, ISSN 1368-4302
  65. Kay, AC; Anderson, JE; Fitzsimons, GM, The motivated process of making meaning from negative experiences, in The Psychology of Meaning (2014), American Psychological Association
  66. Kay, AC; Landau, MJ; Sullivan, DL, Agency and Control, in APA Handbook of Personality and Social Psychology: Attitudes and Social Cognition, edited by Bargh, J; Borgida, E (2014), American Psychological Association
  67. Kay, AC; Proudfoot, D, Reactance of Rationalization? Predicting Public Responses to Government Policy, edited by Fiske, ST, Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences, vol. 1 no. 1 (2014), pp. 256-262
  68. Kugler, MB; Funk, F; Braun, J; Gollwitzer, M; Kay, AC; Darley, JM, Differences in punitiveness across three cultures: A test of American exceptionalism in justice attitudes, Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, vol. 103 no. 4 (December, 2013), pp. 1071-1114, ISSN 0091-4169
  69. Laurin, K; Kay, AC; Proudfoot, D; Fitzsimons, GJ, Response to restrictive policies: Reconciling system justification and psychological reactance, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, vol. 122 no. 2 (November, 2013), pp. 152-162, Elsevier BV, ISSN 0749-5978
  70. Kay, AC; Eibach, RP, Compensatory Control and Its Implications for Ideological Extremism, Journal of Social Issues, vol. 69 no. 3 (September, 2013), pp. 564-585, WILEY, ISSN 0022-4537
  71. Zhu, LL; Kay, AC; Eibach, RP, A test of the flexible ideology hypothesis: System justification motives interact with ideological cueing to predict political judgments, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, vol. 49 no. 4 (July, 2013), pp. 755-758, Elsevier BV, ISSN 0022-1031
  72. Laurin, K; Gaucher, D; Kay, A, Stability and the justification of social inequality, European Journal of Social Psychology, vol. 43 no. 4 (June, 2013), pp. 246-254, WILEY, ISSN 0046-2772
  73. Kay, AC; Day, MV; Zanna, MP; Nussbaum, AD, The insidious (and ironic) effects of positive stereotypes, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, vol. 49 no. 2 (March, 2013), pp. 287-291, Elsevier BV, ISSN 0022-1031
  74. Banfield, JC; Shepherd, S; Kay, AC, Consequences of system defense motivations for individuals’ willingness to act sustainably, in Encouraging Sustainable Behavior: Psychology and the Environment (January, 2013), pp. 111-124, PSYCHOLOGY PRESS, ISBN 9780203141182
  75. Kay, AC; Sullivan, DL, Cultural unity and diversity in compensatory control, in Advances in Culture and Psychology, edited by Gelfand, M; Yue, C; Hong, Y (2013), Oxford University Press
  76. Sullivan, D; Landau, MJ; Kay, AC; Rothschild, ZK, Collectivism and the meaning of suffering., Journal of personality and social psychology, vol. 103 no. 6 (December, 2012), pp. 1023-1039, ISSN 0022-3514
  77. Sullivan, D; Landau, MJ; Kay, AC, Toward a comprehensive understanding of existential threat: Insights from paul tillich, Social Cognition, vol. 30 no. 6 (December, 2012), pp. 734-757, Guilford Publications, ISSN 0278-016X
  78. Laurin, K; Shariff, AF; Henrich, J; Kay, AC, Outsourcing punishment to God: beliefs in divine control reduce earthly punishment., Proceedings. Biological sciences, vol. 279 no. 1741 (August, 2012), pp. 3272-3281, ISSN 0962-8452
  79. Shepherd, S; Kay, AC, On the perpetuation of ignorance: system dependence, system justification, and the motivated avoidance of sociopolitical information., Journal of personality and social psychology, vol. 102 no. 2 (February, 2012), pp. 264-280, ISSN 0022-3514
  80. Laurin, K; Kay, AC; Fitzsimons, GJ, Reactance versus rationalization: divergent responses to policies that constrain freedom., Psychological science, vol. 23 no. 2 (February, 2012), pp. 205-209
  81. Jost, JT; Kay, AC, System justification as an obstacle to the attainment of social justice, in Social Thinking and Interpersonal Behavior (January, 2012), pp. 277-296, PSYCHOLOGY PRESS, ISBN 9780203139677
  82. Laurin, K; Kay, AC; Fitzsimons, GM, Divergent effects of activating thoughts of God on self-regulation., Journal of personality and social psychology, vol. 102 no. 1 (January, 2012), pp. 4-21, ISSN 0022-3514
  83. Kay, AC; Eibach, RP, The ideological toolbox: Ideologies as tools of motivated social cognition, in The SAGE Handbook of Social Cognition (January, 2012), pp. 495-515, SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD, ISBN 9780857024817
  84. Kay, AC; Callan, MJ, Associations between law, competitiveness, and the pursuit of self-interest, in Psychology, Ideology, and Law, edited by Hanson, J (2012), pp. 193-218, Oxford University Press (OUP), ISBN 9780199737512
  85. Kay, AC; Eibach, RP, Ideological Processes, in The Handbook of Social Cognition, edited by Fiske, S; MaCrae, N (2012), Oxford University Press
  86. Kay, AC; Friesen, J, On social stability and social change: Understanding when system justification does and does not occur, Current Directions in Psychological Science, vol. 20 no. 6 (December, 2011), pp. 360-364, SAGE Publications, ISSN 0963-7214
  87. Shepherd, S; Kay, AC; Landau, MJ; Keefer, LA, 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, vol. 47 no. 5 (September, 2011), pp. 949-958, Elsevier BV, ISSN 0022-1031
  88. Day, MV; Kay, AC; Holmes, JG; Napier, JL, System justification and the defense of committed relationship ideology., Journal of personality and social psychology, vol. 101 no. 2 (August, 2011), pp. 291-306, ISSN 0022-3514
  89. Laurin, K; Kay, AC; Shepherd, S, Self-stereotyping as a route to system justification, Social Cognition, vol. 29 no. 3 (July, 2011), pp. 360-375, Guilford Publications, ISSN 0278-016X
  90. Wheeler, SC; Smeesters, D; Kay, AC, Culture modifies the operation of prime-to-behavior effects, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, vol. 47 no. 4 (July, 2011), pp. 824-829, Elsevier BV, ISSN 0022-1031
  91. Gaucher, D; Friesen, J; Kay, AC, Evidence that gendered wording in job advertisements exists and sustains gender inequality., Journal of personality and social psychology, vol. 101 no. 1 (July, 2011), pp. 109-128, ISSN 0022-3514
  92. Cutright, KM; Wu, EC; Banfield, JC; Kay, AC; Fitzsimons, GJ, When your world must be defended: Choosing products to justify the system, Journal of Consumer Research, vol. 38 no. 1 (June, 2011), pp. 62-77, Oxford University Press (OUP), ISSN 0093-5301
  93. Banfield, JC; Kay, AC; Cutright, KM; Wu, EC; Fitzsimons, GJ, A person by situation account of motivated system defense, Social Psychological and Personality Science, vol. 2 no. 2 (March, 2011), pp. 212-219, SAGE Publications, ISSN 1948-5506
  94. Gaucher, D; Kay, AC; Laurin, K, The Power of the status quo: Consequences for maintaining and perpetuating inequality (January, 2011), pp. 151-172, PSYCHOLOGY PRESS, ISBN 9780203837658
  95. Ramona Bobocel, D; Kay, AC; Zanna, MP; Olson, JM, The psychology of justice and legitimacy: The Ontario symposium, vol. 11 (January, 2011), pp. 1-350, ISBN 9780203837658
  96. Laurin, K; Fitzsimons, GM; Kay, AC, Social disadvantage and the self-regulatory function of justice beliefs., Journal of personality and social psychology, vol. 100 no. 1 (January, 2011), pp. 149-171, ISSN 0022-3514
  97. Ramona Bobocel, D; Kay, AC; Zanna, MP; Olson, JM, Preface (January, 2011), pp. vii-xiv, ISBN 9780203837658
  98. Bobocel, DR; Kay, AC; Zanna, MP; Olson, JM, The psychology of justice and legitimacy: The Ontario symposium, The Psychology of Justice and Legitimacy, vol. 11 (2011), pp. 1-350
  99. Kay, AC; Shepherd, S; Blatz, CW; Chua, SN; Galinsky, AD, For God (or) country: the hydraulic relation between government instability and belief in religious sources of control., Journal of personality and social psychology, vol. 99 no. 5 (November, 2010), pp. 725-739
  100. Anderson, JE; Kay, AC; Fitzsimons, GM, In search of the silver lining: the justice motive fosters perceptions of benefits in the later lives of tragedy victims., Psychological science, vol. 21 no. 11 (November, 2010), pp. 1599-1604, ISSN 1467-9280
  101. Laurin, K; Shepherd, S; Kay, AC, Restricted emigration, system inescapability, and defense of the status quo: system-justifying consequences of restricted exit opportunities., Psychological science, vol. 21 no. 8 (August, 2010), pp. 1075-1082, ISSN 0956-7976
  102. Callan, MJ; Kay, AC; Olson, JM; Brar, N; Whitefield, N, The effects of priming legal concepts on perceived trust and competitiveness, self-interested attitudes, and competitive behavior, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, vol. 46 no. 2 (March, 2010), pp. 325-335, Elsevier BV, ISSN 0022-1031
  103. Kay, AC; Moscovitch, DA; Laurin, K, Randomness, attributions of arousal, and belief in god., Psychological science, vol. 21 no. 2 (February, 2010), pp. 216-218, ISSN 0956-7976
  104. Kay, AC; Gaucher, D; McGregor, I; Nash, K, Religious belief as compensatory control., Personality and social psychology review : an official journal of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Inc, vol. 14 no. 1 (February, 2010), pp. 37-48, ISSN 1088-8683
  105. Gaucher, D; Hafer, CL; Kay, AC; Davidenko, N, Compensatory rationalizations and the resolution of everyday undeserved outcomes., Personality & social psychology bulletin, vol. 36 no. 1 (January, 2010), pp. 109-118, ISSN 0146-1672
  106. Smeesters, D; Wheeler, SC; Kay, AC, 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, vol. 42 (January, 2010), pp. 259-317, Elsevier, ISSN 0065-2601
  107. Kay, AC; Jost, JT, Social Justice: History, Theory, and Research, in Handbook of Social Psychology (2010), John Wiley and Sons
  108. Kay, AC; Gaucher, D; Laurin, K, The power of the status quo: Consequences for maintaining and perpetuating inequality, in The Psychology of Justice and Legitimacy: The Ontario Symposium (Vol. 11), edited by Bobocel, R; Kay, M; Zanna, P; Olson, JM (2010), pp. 109-118, Psychology Press
  109. Kay, AC; Banfield, J; Laurin, K, Ideology and power, in The Social Psychology of Power, edited by Vescio, T; Guinote, A (2010), Guilford Press
  110. Kay, AC; Whitson, JA; Gaucher, D; Galinsky, AD, Compensatory control: Achieving order through the mind, our institutions, and the heavens, Current Directions in Psychological Science, vol. 18 no. 5 (December, 2009), pp. 264-268, SAGE Publications, ISSN 0963-7214
  111. Kay, AC; Gaucher, D; Peach, JM; Laurin, K; Friesen, J; Zanna, MP; Spencer, SJ, 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, vol. 97 no. 3 (September, 2009), pp. 421-434, ISSN 0022-3514
  112. Callan, MJ; Kay, AC; Davidenko, N; Ellard, JH, The effects of justice motivation on memory for self- and other-relevant events, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, vol. 45 no. 4 (July, 2009), pp. 614-623, Elsevier BV, ISSN 0022-1031
  113. Bryan, CJ; Dweck, CS; Ross, L; Kay, AC; Mislavsky, NO, Political mindset: Effects of schema priming on liberal-conservative political positions, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, vol. 45 no. 4 (July, 2009), pp. 890-895, Elsevier BV, ISSN 0022-1031
  114. Jost, JT; Kay, AC; Thorisdottir, H, Social and Psychological Bases of Ideology and System Justification, Social and Psychological Bases of Ideology and System Justification (May, 2009), pp. 1-552, Oxford University Press
  115. Kay, AC; Zanna, MP, A Contextual Analysis of the System Justification Motive and Its Societal Consequences (May, 2009), pp. 158-182, Oxford University Press
  116. Thorisdottir, H; Jost, JT; Kay, AC, On the Social and Psychological Bases of Ideology and System Justification (May, 2009), pp. 3-24, Oxford University Press, ISBN 9780195320916
  117. Kay, AC; Czapliński, S; Jost, JT, Left-right ideological differences in system Justification following exposure to complementary versus noncomplementary stereotype exemplars, European Journal of Social Psychology, vol. 39 no. 2 (March, 2009), pp. 290-298, WILEY, ISSN 0046-2772
  118. Smeesters, D; Wheeler, SC; Kay, AC, The role of interpersonal perceptions in the prime-to-behavior pathway., Journal of personality and social psychology, vol. 96 no. 2 (February, 2009), pp. 395-414, ISSN 0022-3514
  119. Kay, AC; Zanna, MP, A contextual analysis of the social and psychological consequences of system justification, in Social & Psychological Bases of Ideology and System Justification, edited by Jost, JT; Thoristtodor, H (2009), Oxford University Press
  120. Laurin, K; Kay, AC; Moscovitch, DA, On the belief in God: Towards an understanding of the emotional substrates of compensatory control, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, vol. 44 no. 6 (November, 2008), pp. 1559-1562, Elsevier BV, ISSN 0022-1031
  121. Kay, AC; Gaucher, D; Napier, JL; Callan, MJ; Laurin, K, God and the government: testing a compensatory control mechanism for the support of external systems., Journal of personality and social psychology, vol. 95 no. 1 (July, 2008), pp. 18-35, ISSN 0022-3514
  122. Kay, AC; Wheeler, SC; Smeesters, D, The situated person: Effects of construct accessibility on situation construals and interpersonal perception, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, vol. 44 no. 2 (March, 2008), pp. 275-291, Elsevier BV, ISSN 0022-1031
  123. Lau, GP; Kay, AC; Spencer, SJ, Loving those who justify inequality: the effects of system threat on attraction to women who embody benevolent sexist ideals., Psychological science, vol. 19 no. 1 (January, 2008), pp. 20-21, ISSN 0956-7976
  124. Kay, AC; Jost, JT; Mandisodza, AN; Sherman, SJ; Petrocelli, JV; Johnson, AL, Panglossian Ideology In The Service Of System Justification: How Complementary Stereotypes Help Us To Rationalize Inequality, Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, vol. 39 (April, 2007), pp. 305-358, Elsevier, ISSN 0065-2601
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