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 · 202 citations

Longitudinal Designs, Religious Sources, Personal Control +14

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 · 173 citations

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 · 132 citations

Distinguishing Compensatory Control, Cognitive Science, Behavioral Sciences +11

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

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

Human Migration, Global Migration, Internal Migration +18

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 · 99 citations