John T. Jost

John T. Jost was born in Toronto, grew up in Cincinnati, and studied first at Duke University and then at Yale University. He is now Professor of Psychology, Politics, & Data Science and Co-Director of the Center for Social and Political Behavior at New York University. His work, which addresses stereotyping, prejudice, political ideology, and system justification theory, has been funded by the National Science Foundation and has appeared in top scientific journals and received national and international media attention. He has published over 200 journal articles and 6 books, including A Theory of System Justification (Harvard University Press, 2020) and Left & Right: The Psychological Significance of a Political Distinction (Oxford University Press, 2021). He has received numerous honors and awards, including the Gordon Allport Intergroup Relations Prize, Erik Erikson Award for Early Career in Political Psychology, International Society for Self and Identity Early Career Award, Society for Personality and Social Psychology Theoretical Innovation Prize, Society of Experimental Social Psychology Career Trajectory Award, Carol & Ed Diener Award in Social Psychology, and the Morton Deutsch Award for Distinguished Scholarly and Practical Contributions to Social Justice. Jost has served on several editorial boards and executive committees of professional societies and is currently editor of the Oxford University Press book series on Political Psychology. He is a Fellow of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology and the Association of Psychological Science, and past President of the International Society of Political Psychology. In 2018, he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Buenos Aires in Argentina, and in 2021 he received one from the Eotvos Lorand University in Budapest, Hungary.