Steven Shepherd

For God (or) country: The hydraulic relation between government instability and belief in religious sources of control.

Aaron C. Kay, Steven Shepherd, Craig W. Blatz et al. · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · 2010 · 206 citations

Social Sciences, Political Science, Social Psychology +10

On the perpetuation of ignorance: System dependence, system justification, and the motivated avoidance of sociopolitical information.

Steven Shepherd, Aaron C. Kay · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · 2011 · 191 citations

Social Sciences, Political Science, Social Psychology +8

Evidence for the specificity of control motivations in worldview defense: Distinguishing compensatory control from uncertainty management and terror management processes

Steven Shepherd, Aaron C. Kay, Mark J. Landau et al. · Journal of Experimental Social Psychology · 2011 · 134 citations

Social Sciences, Psychology, Social Psychology +4

Restricted Emigration, System Inescapability, and Defense of the Status Quo

Kristin Laurin, Steven Shepherd, Aaron C. Kay · Psychological Science · 2010 · 114 citations

Social Sciences, Psychology, Social Psychology +14

Understanding contemporary forms of exploitation: Attributions of passion serve to legitimize the poor treatment of workers.

Jae Yun Kim, Troy Campbell, Steven Shepherd et al. · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · 2019 · 107 citations

Social Sciences, Organizational Behavior, Sociology +11