Left and Right

John T. Jost is Professor of Psychology, Politics, and Data Science and Co-Director of the Center for Social and Political Behavior at New York University. He has received numerous awards for his research and writing, including the Carol and Ed Diener Award in Social Psychology. He has served on many editorial boards and executive committees of professional societies and is a Fellow of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology and the Association of Psychological Science. Professor Jost is a past President of the International Society of Political Psychology and the recipient of an honorary doctorate from the University of Buenos Aires in Argentina.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface

PART I: POLITICAL PSYCHOLOGY IN HISTORICAL AND SCIENTIFIC CONTEXT

Chapter 1: A psychological approach to the study of political ideology

Chapter 2: The end of the end of ideology

Chapter 3: Elective affinities: The intersection of "top-down" "bottom-up" processes

PART II: IDEOLOGICAL DIFFERENCES IN PERSONALITY, COGNITIVE STYLE, AND MOTIVATION

Chapter 4: Political conservatism as motivated social cognition

Chapter 5: The secret lives of liberals and conservatives: Dispositional and situational factors

Chapter 6: Authoritarian aggression, group-based dominance, and the liberal conundrum

PART III: THE FUTURE OF POLITICAL PSYCHOLOGY

Chapter 7: Ideological asymmetries and the essence of political psychology

Chapter 8: The promise and pitfalls of political neuroscience

Epilogue: The values of a political psychologist