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born 1968 United States

John Thomas Jost (born 1968) is a social psychologist known for his work on system justification theory and the psychology of political ideology.

United States
Psychologists

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If the Left-Right distinction did not exist, scholars of ideology would need to invent its equivalent.

Many people who lived under feudalism, the Crusades, slavery, communism, apartheid, and the Taliban believed that their systems were imperfect but morally defensible and better than the alternatives they could envision.

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