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Publications of Aaron C. Kay    :chronological  alphabetical  combined  bibtex listing:

Journal Articles

  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 [doi]  [abs]
  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 [doi]  [abs]
  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 [doi]  [abs]
  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 [doi]  [abs]
  5. 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 [doi]  [abs]
  6. 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) [doi]  [abs]
  7. 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 [doi]  [abs]
  8. 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 [doi]  [abs]
  9. 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) [doi]  [abs]
  10. 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 [doi]
  11. 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) [doi]  [abs]
  12. 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 [doi]  [abs]
  13. 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 [doi]  [abs]
  14. 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) [doi]  [abs]
  15. 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 [doi]  [abs]
  16. Ponce de Leon, R; Kay, AC, Political ideology and compensatory control mechanisms, Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, vol. 34 (August, 2020), pp. 112-117 [doi]  [abs]
  17. Axt, JR; Landau, MJ; Kay, AC, The Psychological Appeal of Fake-News Attributions., Psychological science, vol. 31 no. 7 (July, 2020), pp. 848-857 [doi]  [abs]
  18. 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 [doi]  [abs]
  19. 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) [doi]  [abs]
  20. Ma, A; Axt, J; Kay, AC, A control-based account of stereotyping, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, vol. 84 (September, 2019) [doi]  [abs]
  21. 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 [doi]  [abs]
  22. 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 [doi]  [abs]
  23. 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 [doi]
  24. 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 [doi]  [abs]
  25. 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 [doi]  [abs]
  26. 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 [doi]  [abs]
  27. 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) [doi]  [abs]
  28. 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 [doi]  [abs]
  29. 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 [doi]  [abs]
  30. 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 [doi]  [abs]
  31. 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 [doi]  [abs]
  32. 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 [doi]  [abs]
  33. 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 [doi]  [abs]
  34. 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 [doi]  [abs]
  35. Ma, A; Kay, AC, Compensatory control and ambiguity intolerance, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, vol. 140 (May, 2017), pp. 46-61, Elsevier BV [doi]  [abs]
  36. 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 [doi]  [abs]
  37. 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 [doi]  [abs]
  38. Laurin, K; Kay, AC, The Motivational Underpinnings of Belief in God, vol. 56 (January, 2017), pp. 201-257, Elsevier [doi]  [abs]
  39. 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 [doi]  [abs]
  40. 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 [doi]  [abs]
  41. 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 [doi]  [abs]
  42. 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 [doi]  [abs]
  43. 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 [doi]  [abs]
  44. 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 [doi]  [abs]
  45. 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 [doi]  [abs]
  46. 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 [doi]  [abs]
  47. 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 [doi]  [abs]
  48. 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 [doi]  [abs]
  49. 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 [doi]
  50. 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 [doi]  [abs]
  51. 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 [doi]  [abs]
  52. 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 [doi]  [abs]
  53. 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 [doi]
  54. 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 [doi]  [abs]
  55. 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 [doi]  [abs]
  56. 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 [doi]  [abs]
  57. 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 [doi]  [abs]
  58. 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 [doi]  [abs]
  59. 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 [doi]  [abs]
  60. 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 [doi]  [abs]
  61. 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 [Gateway.cgi]  [abs]
  62. 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 [doi]  [abs]
  63. 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 [Gateway.cgi], [doi]  [abs]
  64. 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 [doi]  [abs]
  65. 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 [doi]  [abs]
  66. 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 [doi]  [abs]
  67. 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 [Gateway.cgi], [doi]  [abs]
  68. 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 [Gateway.cgi], [doi]  [abs]
  69. 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 [doi]  [abs]
  70. 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 [doi]  [abs]
  71. 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 [22241813], [doi]  [abs]
  72. 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 [doi]  [abs]
  73. 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 [doi]  [abs]
  74. 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 [doi]  [abs]
  75. 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 [doi]  [abs]
  76. 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 [doi]  [abs]
  77. 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 [doi]  [abs]
  78. 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 [doi]  [abs]
  79. 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 [doi]  [abs]
  80. 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 [doi]  [abs]
  81. 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 [doi]  [abs]
  82. 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 [doi]  [abs]
  83. 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 [20954784], [doi]  [abs]
  84. 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 [doi]  [abs]
  85. 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 [doi]  [abs]
  86. 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 [doi]  [abs]
  87. 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 [doi]
  88. 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 [doi]  [abs]
  89. 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 [doi]  [abs]
  90. 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 [doi]  [abs]
  91. 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 [doi]  [abs]
  92. 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 [doi]  [abs]
  93. 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 [doi]  [abs]
  94. 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 [doi]  [abs]
  95. 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 [doi]  [abs]
  96. Kay, AC; Zanna, MP, A Contextual Analysis of the System Justification Motive and Its Societal Consequences (May, 2009), pp. 158-182, Oxford University Press [doi]  [abs]
  97. 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 [doi]  [abs]
  98. 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 [doi]  [abs]
  99. 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 [doi]  [abs]
  100. 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 [doi]  [abs]
  101. 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 [doi]  [abs]
  102. 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 [doi]
  103. 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 [doi]  [abs]
  104. Jost, JT; Kay, AC, Exposure to benevolent sexism and complementary gender stereotypes: consequences for specific and diffuse forms of system justification., Journal of personality and social psychology, vol. 88 no. 3 (March, 2005), pp. 498-509, ISSN 0022-3514 [doi]  [abs]
  105. Kay, AC; Jost, JT; Young, S, Victim derogation and victim enhancement as alternate routes to system justification., Psychological science, vol. 16 no. 3 (March, 2005), pp. 240-246, ISSN 0956-7976 [doi]  [abs]
  106. Kay, AC; Wheeler, SC; Bargh, JA; Ross, L, Material priming: The influence of mundane physical objects on situational construal and competitive behavioral choice, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, vol. 95 no. 1 (September, 2004), pp. 83-96, Elsevier BV [doi]  [abs]
  107. Fitzsimons, GM; Kay, AC, Language and interpersonal cognition: causal effects of variations in pronoun usage on perceptions of closeness., Personality & social psychology bulletin, vol. 30 no. 5 (May, 2004), pp. 547-557, ISSN 0146-1672 [doi]  [abs]
  108. Kay, AC; Jost, JT, 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, vol. 85 no. 5 (November, 2003), pp. 823-837 [doi]  [abs]
  109. Baldwin, MW; Kay, AC, Adult attachment and the inhibition of rejection, Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, vol. 22 no. 3 (June, 2003), pp. 275-293, Guilford Publications [doi]  [abs]
  110. Mendelson, MJ; Kay, AC, Positive feelings in friendship: Does imbalance in the relationship matter?, Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, vol. 20 no. 1 (February, 2003), pp. 101-116, SAGE Publications [doi]  [abs]
  111. Kay, AC; Ross, L, 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, vol. 39 no. 6 (January, 2003), pp. 634-643, Elsevier BV [doi]  [abs]
  112. Kay, AC; Jimenez, MC; Jost, JT, Sour grapes, sweet lemons, and the anticipatory rationalization of the status quo, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, vol. 28 no. 9 (January, 2002), pp. 1300-1312, SAGE Publications, ISSN 0146-1672 [doi]  [abs]

Books

  1. 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 [doi]
  2. 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 [doi]  [abs]
  3. 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 [doi]  [abs]

Chapters in Books

  1. 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 [doi]  [abs]
  2. 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 [doi]  [abs]
  3. 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 [doi]
  4. 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 [doi]  [abs]
  5. Kay, AC; Anderson, JE; Fitzsimons, GM, The motivated process of making meaning from negative experiences, in The Psychology of Meaning (2014), American Psychological Association
  6. 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
  7. 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 [doi]
  8. 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
  9. 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 [doi]
  10. 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 [doi]
  11. 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 [doi]  [abs]
  12. Kay, AC; Eibach, RP, Ideological Processes, in The Handbook of Social Cognition, edited by Fiske, S; MaCrae, N (2012), Oxford University Press
  13. Ramona Bobocel, D; Kay, AC; Zanna, MP; Olson, JM, Preface (January, 2011), pp. vii-xiv, ISBN 9780203837658 [doi]
  14. Kay, AC; Jost, JT, Social Justice: History, Theory, and Research, in Handbook of Social Psychology (2010), John Wiley and Sons
  15. 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
  16. Kay, AC; Banfield, J; Laurin, K, Ideology and power, in The Social Psychology of Power, edited by Vescio, T; Guinote, A (2010), Guilford Press
  17. 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
  18. Kay, AC; Jost, JT; Fitzsimons, GM, The Ideological Animal: On the Epistemic and Existential Bases of System Justification, in Handbook of Experimental Existential Psychology, edited by Greenberg, J; Koole, SL; Pyszczynsk, T (2004), Guilford Press

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