Table of Contents -- Foreword: Why Political Psychology Is Important -- Contributors -- I. INTRODUCTION -- 1 On the Social and Psychological Bases of Ideology and System Justification -- II. IDEOLOGY AND AUTOMATICITY -- 2 American Moral Exceptionalism -- 3 On the Automaticity of Nationalist Ideology: The Case of the USA -- III. THE PSYCHOLOGICAL POWER OF THE STATUS QUO -- 4 A Psychological Advantage for the Status Quo -- 5 Belief in a Just World, Perceived Fairness, and Justification of the Status Quo -- 6 Disentangling Reasons and Rationalizations: Exploring Perceived Fairness in Hypothetical Societies -- 7 A Contextual Analysis of the System Justification Motive and Its Societal Consequences -- IV. EPISTEMIC AND EXISTENTIAL MOTIVES -- 8 The Social Psychology of Uncertainty Management and System Justification -- 9 Political Ideology in the 21st Century: A Terror Management Perspective on Maintenance and Change of the Status Quo -- 10 No Atheists in Foxholes: Motivated Reasoning and Religious Belief -- V. PERSONALITY AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES -- 11 Motivated Social Cognition and Ideology: Is Attention to Elite Discourse a Prerequisite for Epistemically Motivated Political Affinities? -- 12 A Dual Process Motivational Model of Ideological Attitudes and System Justification -- 13 Statewide Differences in Personality Predict Voting Patterns in 1996-2004 U.S. Presidential Elections -- VI. PERSPECTIVES ON JUSTICE AND MORALITY -- 14 Procedural Justice and System-Justifying Motivations -- 15 Planet of the Durkheimians, Where Community, Authority, and Sacredness Are Foundations of Morality -- 16 Ideology of the Good Old Days: Exaggerated Perceptions of Moral Decline and Conservative Politics -- VII. IMPLICATIONS FOR SELF, GROUP, AND SOCIETY.

17 Group Status and Feelings of Personal Entitlement: The Roles of Social Comparison and System-Justifying Beliefs -- 18 Ambivalent Sexism at Home and at Work: How Attitudes Toward Women in Relationships Foster Exclusion in the Public Sphere -- 19 Acknowledging and Redressing Historical Injustices -- 20 The Politics of Intergroup Attitudes -- Name Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Subject Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.