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

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Journal Articles

  1. Busenbark, JR; Druckman, JD; Joshi, A; Kay, AC; Kouchaki, M (2025). Politics, ideology, and partisanship in the workplace: A perspective on the literature and a call for submissions. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 188. [doi]  [abs]
  2. Jin, P; Fitzsimons, GJ; Kay, AC (2025). Exploring the Link Between Trait Reactance and Antiegalitarian Beliefs. Motivation Science, 11(2), 201-212. [doi]  [abs]
  3. Gibbs, WC; Ortosky, L; MacLean, A; Kay, AC; Sherman, DK (2025). Structure in transition: The role of structure in facilitating workplace efficacy and belonging for military veterans and civilians.. PloS one, 20(2), e0317575. [doi]  [abs]
  4. Goya-Tocchetto, D; Kay, AC; Payne, BK (2024). Can selecting the most qualified candidate be unfair? Learning about socioeconomic advantages and disadvantages reduces the perceived fairness of meritocracy and increases support for socioeconomic diversity initiatives in organizations.. Journal of experimental psychology. General, 153(12), 2962-2976. [doi]  [abs]
  5. Goya-Tocchetto, D; Kay, AC; Payne, BK (2024). System justification makes income gaps appear smaller. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 115. [doi]  [abs]
  6. Stanley, ML; Kay, AC (2024). Dissociations between animalistic and mechanistic dehumanization in the context of labor exploitation. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 115. [doi]  [abs]
  7. Voelkel, JG; Stagnaro, MN; Chu, JY; Pink, SL; Mernyk, JS; Redekopp, C; Ghezae, I; Cashman, M; Adjodah, D; Allen, LG; Allis, LV; Baleria, G; Ballantyne, N; Van Bavel, JJ; Blunden, H; Braley, A; Bryan, CJ; Celniker, JB; Cikara, M; Clapper, MV; Clayton, K; Collins, H; DeFilippis, E; Dieffenbach, M; Doell, KC; Dorison, C; Duong, M; Felsman, P; Fiorella, M; Francis, D; Franz, M; Gallardo, RA; Gifford, S; Goya-Tocchetto, D; Gray, K; Green, J; Greene, J; Güngör, M; Hall, M; Hecht, CA; Javeed, A; Jost, JT; Kay, AC; Kay, NR; Keating, B; Kelly, JM; Kirk, JRG; Kopell, M; Kteily, N; Kubin, E; Lees, J; Lenz, G; Levendusky, M; Littman, R; Luo, K; Lyles, A; Lyons, B; Marsh, W; Martherus, J; Maurer, LA; Mehl, C; Minson, J; Moore, M; Moore-Berg, SL; Pasek, MH; Pentland, A; Puryear, C; Rahnama, H; Rathje, S; Rosato, J; Saar-Tsechansky, M; Almeida Santos, L; Seifert, CM; Shariff, A; Simonsson, O; Spitz Siddiqi, S; Stone, DF; Strand, P; Tomz, M; Yeager, DS; Yoeli, E; Zaki, J; Druckman, JN; Rand, DG; Willer, R (2024). Megastudy testing 25 treatments to reduce antidemocratic attitudes and partisan animosity.. Science (New York, N.Y.), 386(6719), eadh4764. [doi]  [abs]
  8. Shepherd, S; Crabbe, R; Chartrand, TL; Fitzsimons, GJ; Kay, AC (2024). When and Why Antiegalitarianism Affects Resistance to Supporting Black-Owned Businesses.. Psychological science, 35(8), 827-839. [doi]  [abs]
  9. Stanley, ML; Kay, AC (2024). The consequences of heroization for exploitation.. Journal of personality and social psychology, 126(1), 5-25. [doi]  [abs]
  10. 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]
  11. 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]
  12. Kay, AC; Ponce de Leon, R; Ho, AK; Kteily, NS (2023). Motivated Egalitarianism. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 32(4), 293-299. [doi]  [abs]
  13. Stanley, ML; Shepherd, S; Kay, AC (2023). Heroization and ironic funneling effects.. Journal of personality and social psychology, 125(1), 29-56. [doi]  [abs]
  14. Jost, JT; Goya-Tocchetto, D; Kay, AC (2023). 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, 708(1), 46-63. [doi]  [abs]
  15. 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]
  16. 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]
  17. 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]
  18. 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]
  19. 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]
  20. 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]
  21. 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]
  22. 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]
  23. 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]
  24. 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]
  25. 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]
  26. Ponce de Leon, R; Kay, AC (2020). Political ideology and compensatory control mechanisms. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 34, 112-117. [doi]  [abs]
  27. Axt, JR; Landau, MJ; Kay, AC (2020). The Psychological Appeal of Fake-News Attributions.. Psychological science, 31(7), 848-857. [doi]  [abs]
  28. 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]
  29. 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]
  30. Ma, A; Axt, J; Kay, AC (2019). A control-based account of stereotyping. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 84. [doi]  [abs]
  31. 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]
  32. 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]
  33. 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]
  34. 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]
  35. 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]
  36. 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]
  37. 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]
  38. 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]
  39. 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]
  40. 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]
  41. 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]
  42. 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]
  43. 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]
  44. 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]
  45. Ma, A; Kay, AC (2017). Compensatory control and ambiguity intolerance. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 140, 46-61. [doi]  [abs]
  46. Laurin, K; Kay, AC (2017). The Motivational Underpinnings of Belief in God, 56, 201-257. [doi]  [abs]
  47. 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]
  48. 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]
  49. Kay, AC; Brandt, MJ (2016). Ideology and intergroup inequality: emerging directions and trends. Current Opinion in Psychology, 11, 110-114. [doi]  [abs]
  50. 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]
  51. 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]
  52. 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]
  53. 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]
  54. Landau, MJ; Kay, AC; Whitson, JA (2015). Compensatory control and the appeal of a structured world.. Psychological bulletin, 141(3), 694-722. [doi]  [abs]
  55. 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]
  56. 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]
  57. 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]
  58. Kay, A; Napier, J (2015). The justice motive as a driver of religious experience. Religion Brain and Behavior, 5(3), 238-240. [doi]
  59. 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]
  60. Brown-Iannuzzi, JL; Lundberg, KB; Kay, AC; Payne, BK (2015). Subjective status shapes political preferences.. Psychological science, 26(1), 15-26. [doi]  [abs]
  61. 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]
  62. 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]
  63. 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]
  64. 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]
  65. 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]
  66. 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]
  67. 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]
  68. Shepherd, S; Kay, AC (2014). When government confidence undermines public involvement in modern disasters. Social Cognition, 32(3), 206-216. [doi]  [abs]
  69. 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]
  70. 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]
  71. 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]
  72. 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]
  73. 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]
  74. 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]
  75. 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]
  76. 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]
  77. 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]
  78. 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]
  79. 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]
  80. 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]
  81. 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]
  82. 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]
  83. 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]
  84. 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]
  85. 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]
  86. Laurin, K; Kay, AC; Shepherd, S (2011). Self-stereotyping as a route to system justification. Social Cognition, 29(3), 360-375. [doi]  [abs]
  87. 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]
  88. 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]
  89. 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]
  90. 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]
  91. 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]
  92. 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]
  93. 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]
  94. 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]
  95. 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]
  96. 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]
  97. Kay, AC; Moscovitch, DA; Laurin, K (2010). Randomness, attributions of arousal, and belief in god.. Psychological science, 21(2), 216-218. [doi]
  98. 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]
  99. 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]
  100. 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]
  101. 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]
  102. 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]
  103. 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]
  104. 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]
  105. 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]
  106. Kay, AC; Zanna, MP (2009). A Contextual Analysis of the System Justification Motive and Its Societal Consequences, 158-182. [doi]  [abs]
  107. 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]
  108. 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]
  109. 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]
  110. 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]
  111. 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]
  112. 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]
  113. 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]
  114. 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]
  115. 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]
  116. 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]
  117. 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]
  118. 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]
  119. Baldwin, MW; Kay, AC (2003). Adult attachment and the inhibition of rejection. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 22(3), 275-293. [doi]  [abs]
  120. 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]
  121. 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]
  122. 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." 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." 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. Jost, JT; Kay, AC "The History of Psychology and Social Justice." Praeger Handbook of Social Justice and Psychology Volume 1 3. January, 2014: 3-32.
  6. Kay, AC; Anderson, JE; Fitzsimons, GM "The motivated process of making meaning from negative experiences." The Psychology of Meaning. American Psychological Association, 2014
  7. 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
  8. 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]
  9. 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
  10. 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]
  11. Kay, AC; Eibach, RP "The ideological toolbox: Ideologies as tools of motivated social cognition." Sage Handbook of Social Cognition. SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD, January, 2012: 495-515. [doi]
  12. Kay, AC; Eibach, RP "Ideological Processes." The Handbook of Social Cognition. Ed. Fiske, S; MaCrae, N Oxford University Press, 2012
  13. 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]
  14. Ramona Bobocel, D; Kay, AC; Zanna, MP; Olson, JM "Preface."  January, 2011: vii-xiv. [doi]
  15. Kay, AC; Jost, JT "Social Justice: History, Theory, and Research." Handbook of Social Psychology. John Wiley and Sons, 2010
  16. 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.
  17. Kay, AC; Banfield, J; Laurin, K "Ideology and power." The Social Psychology of Power. Ed. Vescio, T; Guinote, A Guilford Press, 2010
  18. 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
  19. 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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