John Jost

John Thomas Jost (born 1968) is an American social psychologist best known for his work on system justification theory and the psychology of political ideology. Jost received his AB degree in Psychology and Human Development from Duke University (1989), where he studied with Irving E. Alexander, Philip R. Costanzo, David Goldstein, and Lynn Hasher, and his PhD in Social and Political Psychology from Yale University (1995), where he was the last doctoral student of Leonard Doob and William J. McGuire. He was also a doctoral student of Mahzarin R. Banaji and a postdoctoral trainee of Arie W. Kruglanski.

Jost has contributed extensively to the study of stereotyping, prejudice, intergroup relations, social justice, political psychology, and social media. In collaboration with Banaji, he proposed a theory of system justification processes in 1994, and in collaboration with Jack Glaser, Kruglanski, and Frank Sulloway he proposed a theory of political ideology as motivated social cognition in 2003. Since 2003, he has been on the faculty of New York University, where he is Professor of Psychology, Politics (Associated Appointment), Sociology (Affiliated Appointment), and Data Science (Affiliated Appointment). Jost is a member of numerous editorial boards and professional organizations and societies, and he was President of the International Society of Political Psychology from 2015 to 2016. He is the Editor of a book series on Political Psychology for Oxford University Press (https://global.oup.com/academic/content/series/s/series-in-political-psychology-sppsy/?lang=en&cc=us). Jost received honorary doctorates from the University of Buenos Aires in Argentina in 2018 and the Eötvös Lorand University (ELTE) in Budapest, Hungary in 2021. He delivered the Aaron Wildavsky Lecture in the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley in 2022 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vb2UHmoSQaQ&t=1s).

Jost's writings have been translated into several languages, including Spanish, Italian, French, Portuguese, German, Hungarian, Polish, and Japanese. Provided by Wikipedia