Justin Friesen
I research motivated support for the status quo and inequality, focusing on the broad question: Why do people defend social systems that are unfair, or endorse beliefs and ideologies that put them at a personal disadvantage? I have taken two approaches in answering this question. First, I investigate how existential motivations in individuals, such as needs for order and control, shape beliefs about how broader social groups (e.g., companies, governments, societies) should be organized. Second, I have investigated how subtle cues, such as systematic biases in language or stereotypes, reinforce the status quo in male-dominated occupations.
Primary Interests:
- Group Processes
- Intergroup Relations
- Motivation, Goal Setting
- Organizational Behavior
- Political Psychology
- Prejudice and Stereotyping
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The Tolerance of Inequality: Psychological Needs for Control and Social Hierarchies
Journal Articles:
- Friesen, J. P., Campbell, T. H., & Kay, A. C. (in press). The psychological advantage of unfalsifiability: The appeal of untestable political and religious ideologies. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
- Friesen, J. P., Kay, A. C., Eibach, R. P., & Galinsky, A. D. (2014). Seeking structure in social organization: Compensatory control and the psychological advantages of hierarchy. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 106, 59-609.
- Friesen, J., & Sinclair, L. (2011). Distrust and simultaneous activation of multiple categories. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 2, 112-119.
- Gaucher, D., Friesen, J., & Kay, A. C. (2011). Evidence that gendered wording in job advertisements exists and sustains gender inequality. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 101, 109-128.
- Kay, A. C., & Friesen, J. (2011). On social stability and social change: Understanding when system justification does and does not occur. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 20, 360-364.
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Justin Friesen
Department of Psychology
University of Winnipeg
515 Portage Avenue
Winnipeg, Ontario R3B2E9
Canada
- Phone: 1.204.786.9303