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Professor of Psychology and Politics
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John T. Jost is Professor of Psychology and Politics and Co-Director of the Center for Social and Political Behavior at New York University.
His research, 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 book chapters and four co-edited book volumes, including
Social and Psychological Bases of Ideology and System Justification
(Oxford, 2009). 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, and
the Morton Deutsch Award for Distinguished Scholarly and Practical Contributions to Social Justice. He 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 is past
President of the International Society of Political Psychology.
Jost, John in Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences
Ph.D. 1995, Yale University (Social Psychology)
M.A. 1993, University of Cincinnati (Philosophy)
A.B. 1989, Duke University (Psychology, Human Development)
Professor of Psychology and Politics (Associated Appointment), New York University
Visting Professor of Psychology, Princeton University
Assistant to Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior, Stanford University
Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of California at Santa Barbara
Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Maryland at College Park
President, International Society of Political Psychology, 2015-2016
Vice President, International Society of Political Psychology, 2013-2015
Society of Experimental Social Psychology Career Trajectory (Mid-Career) Award, 2010
"Champion of Psychology," Association for Psychological Science, 2009
Gordon Allport Intergroup Relations Prize, Best Paper of the Year, SPSSI. Three time winner: 1993, 2006, 2007
Morton Deutsch Award for Distinguished Scholarly & Practical Contributions to Social Justice 2007
Named one of the Top 5 Cited Social-Personality Psychologists at the Rank of Associate Professor, according to SPSP Dialogue, 2007
Fellow, Association for Psychological Science (APS), 2006
Early Career Award, International Society for Self and Identity (ISSI), 2005
Erik Erikson Early Career Research Achievement Award, International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP), 2004
Theoretical Innovation Prize, Society of Personality and Social Psychology, 2003 (see pdf)
Fellowship, Harvard University, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, 2002-2003
James and Doris McNamara Faculty Fellowship, Stanford University, 2000-2001
Robert M. Leylan Fellowship in Social Sciences, Yale University, 1994-1995
Series Editor, Book Series on Political Psychology, Oxford University Press, 2007-present
Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 2012-present
Editorial Board, Journal of Experimental Political Science, 2013-present
Editorial Board, Journal of Social Issues, 2013-present
Editorial Board, Political Psychology, 2010-present
Consulting Member, Editorial Board, Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 2003-present
Member, Editorial Board, Social Psychological and Personality Science, 2011-present
Member, Editorial Board, Social Influence, 2008-present
Editorial Board, Social and Personality Psychology Compass ("Group and Intergroup Processes" section), 2006-present
Member, Society of Experimental Social Psychology (SESP)
Member, American Psychological Society (APS )
Member, International Society for Justice Research (ISJR)
Member, International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP)
Member, Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP)
Member, Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI)
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Jost, J.T., Kay, A.C., & Thorisdottir, H. (Eds.) (2009). Social and psychological bases of ideology and system justification.New York : Oxford University Press. [Political Psychology series]
Jost, J.T., Banaji, M.R., & Prentice, D. (Eds.) (2004). Perspectivism in social psychology: The yin and yang of scientific progress. Washington, DC: APA Press.
Jost, J.T., & Sidanius, J. (Eds.) (2004). Political psychology: Key readings. New York: Psychology Press/Taylor & Francis.
Jost, J.T., & Major, B. (Eds.) (2001). The psychology of legitimacy: Emerging perspectives on ideology, justice, andintergroup relations. New York: Cambridge University Press.
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Azevedo, F., Jost, J.T., & Rothmund, T. (2017). "Making America great again": System justification in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Translational Issues in Psychological Science, 3, 231-240.
Brady, W.J., Wills, J., Jost, J.T., Tucker, J., & Van Bavel, J.J. (2017). Emotion shapes the diffusion of moralized content in social networks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114, 7313–7318.
Jones, K.L., Noorbaloochi, S., Jost, J.T., Bonneau, R., Nagler, J., & Tucker, J.A. (2017). Liberal and conservative values: What we can learn from congressional tweets. Political Psychology, in press. doi: 10.1111/pops.12415
Jost, J.T. (2017). Ideological asymmetries and the essence of political psychology. Political Psychology, 38, 167-208. [Presidential Address]
Jost, J.T. (2017b). Working class conservatism: A system justification perspective. Current Opinion in Psychology, 18, 73-78.
Jost, J.T. (2017c). The marketplace of ideology: "Elective affinities" in political psychology and their implications for consumer behavior. Journal of Consumer Psychology, 27, 502-520.
Jost, J.T. (2017d). A theory of system justification. Psychological Science Agenda (PSA). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
Jost, J.T., Becker, J., Osborne, D., & Badaan, V. (2017). Missing in (collective) action: Ideology, system justification, and the motivational antecedents of protest behavior. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 26, 99-108.
Jost, J.T., Langer, M., Badaan, V., Azevedo, F., Etchezahar, E., Ungaretti, J., & Hennes, E. (2017). Ideology and the limits of self-interest: System justification motivation and conservative advantages in mass politics. Translational Issues in Psychological Science, 3 (3), e1-e26. doi:10.1037/tps0000127
Jost, J.T., Stern, C., Rule, N.O., & Sterling, J. (2017). The politics of fear: Is there an ideological asymmetry in existential motivation? Social Cognition, 35, 324–353.
Nam, H.H., Jost, J.T., Kaggen, L., Campbell-Meiklejohn, D., & Van Bavel, J.J. (2017). Amygdala structure and the tendency to regard the social system as legitimate and desirable. Nature Human Behaviour. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-017-0248-5
Van der Toorn, J., Jost, J.T., Packer, D., Noorbaloochi, S., & Van Bavel, J.J. (2017). In defense of tradition: Religiosity, conservatism, and opposition to same-sex marriage in North America. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 43, 1455-1468.
Cichocka, A., Bilewicz, M., Jost, J.T., Marrouch, N., & Witkowska, M. (2016). On the Grammar of Politics—or Why Conservatives Prefer Nouns. Political Psychology, 37, 799-815.
Hennes, E.P., Feygina, I., Ruisch, B., Monteiro, C., & Jost, J.T. (2016). Motivated recall in the service of the economic system: The case of anthropogenic climate change. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 145, 755-771.
Jost, J.T., Basevich, E., Dickson, E.S., & Noorbaloochi, S. (2016). The place of values in a world of politics: Personality, motivation, and ideology. T. Brosch & D. Sander (Eds.), Handbook of value: Perspectives from economics, neuroscience, philosophy, psychology, and sociology (pp. 351-374). New York: Oxford University Press.
Sterling, J., Jost, J.T., & Shrout, P. (2016). Mortality salience, system justification, and candidate evaluations in the 2012 U.S. Presidential Election. PLoS ONE 11(3): e0150556. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0150556.
Barberá, P., Jost, J.T., Nagler, J., Tucker, J.A., & Bonneau, R. (2015). Tweeting from left to right: Is online political communication more than an echo chamber? Psychological Science, 26, 1531-1542.
Cichocka, A., Winiewski, M., Bilewicz, M., Bukowski, M., & Jost, J.T. (2015). Complementary stereotyping of ethnic minorities predicts system justification in Poland. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 18, 788-800.
Jost, J.T. (2015). Resistance to change: A social psychological perspective. Social Research: An International Quarterly, 82, 607-636.
Jost, J.T., Gaucher, D., & Stern, C. (2015). "The world isn't fair": A system justification perspective on social stratification and inequality. In J.F. Dovidio & J.A. Simpson (Eds.), APA handbook of personality and social psychology (Vol. 2, pp. 317-340). Washington, DC: APA.
Vaccari, C., Valeriani, A., Barberá, P., Bonneau, R., Jost, J.T., Nagler, J., & Tucker, J.A. (2015). Political expression and action on social media: Exploring the relationship between lower- and higher-threshold political activities among Twitter users in Italy. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 20, 221-239.
van der Toorn, J., Feinberg, M., Jost, J.T., Kay, A.C., Tyler, T. R., Willer, R., & Wilmuth, C. (2015). A sense of powerlessness fosters system justification: Implications for the legitimation of authority, hierarchy, and government. Political Psychology, 36, 93-110.
Cichocka, A. & Jost, J.T. (2014). Stripped of illusions? Exploring system justification processes in capitalist and post-Communist societies. International Journal of Psychology, 49, 6-29.
Jacquet, J., Dietrich, M., & Jost, J.T. (2014). The ideological divide and climate change opinion: "Top-down" and "bottom-up" approaches. Frontiers in Psychology, 5, 01458. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01458
Jost, J.T., Hawkins, C.B., Nosek, B.A., Hennes, E.P., Stern, C., Gosling, S.D., & Graham, J. (2014). Belief in a just god (and a just society): A system justification perspective on religious ideology. Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, 34, 56-81.
Jost, J. T., & Krochik, M. (2014). Ideological differences in epistemic motivation: Implications for attitude structure, depth of information processing, susceptibility to persuasion, and stereotyping. Advances in Motivation Science (Vol. 1, pp. 181–231).
Jost, J.T., Nam, H. Amodio, D., & Van Bavel, J.J. (2014). Political neuroscience: The beginning of a beautiful friendship. Advances in political psychology (Vol. 35, Supplement 1), 3-42.
Kugler, M., Jost, J.T., & Noorbaloochi, S. (2014). Another look at moral foundations theory: Do authoritarianism and social dominance orientation explain liberal-conservative differences in ''moral'' intuitions? Social Justice Research, 27, 413-431.
Liviatan, I., & Jost, J.T. (2014). A social-cognitive analysis of system justification goal striving. Social Cognition, 32, 95-129.
Stern, C., West, T.V., Jost, J.T., & Rule, N.O. (2014). "Ditto heads": Do conservatives perceive greater consensus within their ranks than liberals? Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 40, 1162-1177.
van der Toorn, J., Nail, P., Liviatan, I., & Jost, J.T. (2014). My country, right or wrong: Does activating system justification motivation eliminate the liberal-conservative gap in patriotism? Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 54, 50-60.
Costa-Lopes, R., Dovidio, J.F., Pereira, C.R., & Jost, J.T. (2013). Social psychological perspectives on the legitimation of social inequality: Past, present, and future. European Journal of Social Psychology, 43, 229-237.
Jost, J.T., Federico, C.M., & Napier, J.L. (2013). Political ideologies and their social psychological functions. In M. Freeden (Ed.), Oxford handbook of political ideologies (pp. 232-250). New York: Oxford University Press.
Jost, J.T., Hennes, E.P., & Lavine, H. (2013). "Hot" political cognition: Its self-, group, and system-serving purposes. In D. Carlston (Ed.), Oxford handbook of social cognition (pp. 851-875). New York: Oxford University Press.
Krosch, A.R., Bernsten, L., Amodio, D.M., Jost, J.T., & Van Bavel, J.J. (2013). On the ideology of hypodescent: Political conservatism predicts categorization of racially ambiguous faces as black. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 49, 1196-1203.
McGuire, W.J. (2013). An additional future for psychological science. (Edited with an introduction by J.T. Jost). Perspective on Psychological Science, 8, 414-423.
Nam, H. Jost, J.T., & Van Bavel, J.J. (2013). "Not for all the tea in China!" Political ideology and the avoidance of dissonance-arousing situation. PloS ONE 8(4): e59837. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0059837
Stern, C., West, T.V., Jost, J.T., & Rule, N.O. (2013). The politics of gaydar: Ideological differences in the use of gendered cues in categorizing sexual orientation. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 104, 520-5410.
Vaccari, C., Valeriani, A., Barberá, P., Bonneau, R., Jost, J.T., Nagler, J., & Tucker, J. (2013). Social media and political communication: A survey of Twitter users during the 2013 Italian general election. Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica/Italian Political Science Review, XLIII, 381-410. doi: 10.1426/75245
Jost, J. T., & Amodio, D. M. (2012). Political ideology as motivated social cognition: Behavioral and neuroscientific evidence. Motivation and Emotion, 36, 55-64.
Jost, J.T., Chaikalis-Petritsis, V., Abrams, D., Sidanius, J., van der Toorn, J., & Bratt, C. (2012). Why men (and women) do and don't rebel: Effects of system justification on willingness to protest. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 38,197-208.
Jost, J.T., & van der Toorn, J. (2012). System justification theory. In P.A.M. van Lange, A.W. Kruglanski, & E.T. Higgins (Eds.), Handbook of theories of social psychology, (Vol. 2, pp. 313-343). London: Sage.
Hennes, E.P., Nam, H.H., Stern, C., & Jost, J.T. (2012). Not all ideologies are created equal: Epistemic, existential, and relational needs predict system-justifying attitudes. Social Cognition, 30, 669-688.
Solak, N., Jost, J.T., Sümer, N., & Clore, G. (2012). Rage against the machine: The case for system-level emotions. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 6, 674-690.
Calogero, R., & Jost, J.T. (2011). Self-subjugation among women: Exposure to sexist ideology, self-objectification, and the protective function of the need to avoid closure. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 100, 211-228.
Jost, J.T. (2011). System justification theory as compliment, complement, and corrective to theories of social identification and social dominance. In D. Dunning (Ed.), Social motivation (pp. 223-263). New York: Psychology Press.
Jost, J.T., & Hardin, C.D. (2011). On the structure and dynamics of human thought: The legacy of William J. McGuire for social and political psychology. Political Psychology, 32, 21-57.
Liviatan, I., & Jost, J.T. (2011). System justification theory: Motivated social cognition in the service of the status quo. Social Cognition, 29, 231-237.
Ledgerwood, A., Mandisodza, A., Jost, J.T., & Pohl, M. (2011). Working for the system: Motivated defense of meritocratic beliefs. Social Cognition, 29, 322-340.
Thorisdottir, H., & Jost, J.T. (2011). Motivated closed-mindedness mediates the effect of threat on political conservatism. Political Psychology, 32, 785-811.
Van der Toorn, J., Tyler, T.R., & Jost, J.T. (2011). More than fair: Outcome dependence, system justification, and the perceived legitimacy of authority. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 47, 127-138.
Wakslak, C.J., Jost, J.T., & Bauer, P. (2011). Spreading rationalization: Increased support for large-scale and small-scale social systems following system threat, Social Cognition, 29, 288-302.
Feygina, I., Jost, J.T., & Goldsmith, R. (2010). System justification, the denial of global warming, and the possibility of "system-sanctioned change." Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 36, 326-338.
Jost, J.T., & Kay, A.C. (2010). Social justice: History, theory, and research. In S.T. Fiske, D. Gilbert, & G. Lindzey (Eds.),Handbook of social psychology (5th edition, Vol. 2, pp. 1122-1165). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.
Napier, J.L., Thorisdottir, H., & Jost, J.T. (2010). The joy of sexism? A multinational investigation of hostile and benevolent justifications for gender inequality and their relation to subjective well-being. Sex Roles: A Journal of Research, 62, 405-419.
Jost, J.T., Liviatan, I., van der Toorn, J., Ledgerwood, A., Mandisodza, A., & Nosek, B.A. (2010). System justification: How do we know it's motivated? In R. Bobocel et al. (Eds.), The psychology of justice and legitimacy: The Ontario symposium (Vol. 11, pp.173-203). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
Van der Toorn, J., Berkics, M., & Jost, J.T. (2010). System justification, satisfaction, and perceptions of fairness and typicality at work: A cross-system comparison involving the U.S. and Hungary. Social Justice Research, 23, 189-210.
Jost, J.T., Rudman, L.A., Blair, I.V., Carney, D., Dasgupta, N., Glaser, J. & Hardin, C.D. (2009). The existence of implicit bias is beyond reasonable doubt: A refutation of ideological and methodological objections and executive summary of ten studies that no manager should ignore. Research in Organizational Behavior, 29, 39-69
Jost, J.T. (2009). "Elective affinities": On the psychological bases of left-right ideological differences. Psychological Inquiry, 20, 129-141.
Jost, J.T., & Jost, L.J. (2009). Virtue ethics and the social psychology of character: Philosophical lessons from the person-situation debate. Journal of Research in Personality, 43, 253-254. [Special issue on "Personality & Assessment at Age 40"]
Rankin, L., Jost, J.T., & Wakslak, C.J. (2009). System justification and the meaning of life: Are the existential benefits of ideology distributed unevenly across racial groups? Social Justice Research, 22, 312-333.
Jost, J.T., West, T.V., & Gosling, S.D. (2009). Personality and ideology as determinants of candidate preferences and "Obama conversion" in the 2008 U.S. presidential election. The Dubois Review: Social Science on Race, 6, 103-124.
Feygina, I., Goldsmith, R., & Jost, J.T. (2009). System justification and the disruption of environmental goal-setting: A self-regulatory perspective. In R.Hassin, K. Ochsner, & Y. Trope (Eds.), Social cognitive and neuroscientific approaches to self-control. New York: Oxford University Press.
Jost, J.T., Federico, C.M. & Napier, J.L. (2009). Political ideology: Its structure, functions, and elective affinities. Annual Review of Psychology, 60, 307-333.
Kay, A.C., Czáplinski, S., & Jost, J.T. (2009). Left-right ideological differences in system justification following exposure to complementary versus noncomplementary stereotype exemplars. European Journal of Social Psychology, 39, 290-298.
Carney, D.R., Jost, J.T., & Gosling, S.D. & Potter, J. (2008). The secret lives of liberals and conservatives: Personality profiles, interaction styles, and the things they leave behind. Political Psychology, 29, 807-840.
Napier, J.L., & Jost, J.T. (2008). Why are conservatives happier than liberals? Psychological Science, 19, 565-572.
Napier, J.L., & Jost, J.T. (2008). The "anti-democratic personality" revisited: A cross-national investigation of working class authoritarianism. Journal of Social Issues, 64, 595-617.
Hunyady, O., Josephs, L., & Jost, J.T. (2008). Priming the primal scene: Betrayal trauma, narcissism, and attitudes toward sexual infidelity. Self & Identity, 7, 278-294.
Jost, J.T., Ledgerwood, A., & Hardin, C.D. (2008). Shared reality, system justification, and the relational basis of ideological beliefs. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 2, 171-186
Jost, J.T., Nosek, B.A. & Gosling, S.D. (2008). Ideology: Its resurgence in social, personality, and political psychology. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 3,126-136.
Jost, J.T., Pietrzak, J., Liviatan, I. , Mandisodza, A., & Napier, J. (2008). System justification as conscious and nonconsciousgoal pursuit. In J. Shah & W. Gardner (Eds.), Handbook of Motivation Science. New York : Guilford
Mentovich, A., & Jost, J.T. (2008). The ideological "id"? System justification and the unconscious perpetuation of inequality. Connecticut Law Review, 40, 1095-1116.
Smith, P.K., Jost, J.T., & Vijay, R. (2008). Legitimacy crisis? Behavioral approach and inhibition when power differences are left unexplained. Social Justice Research, 21, 358-376.
Amodio, D.M., Jost, J.T., Master, S.L., & Yee, C.M. (2007). Neurocognitive correlates of liberalism and conservatism. Nature Neuroscience, 10, 1246-1247.
Jost, J.T., Napier, J.L., Thorisdottir, H., Gosling, S.D., Palfai, T.P., & Ostafin, B. (2007). Are needs to manage uncertainty and threat associated with political conservatism or ideological extremity? Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 33, 989-1007.
Jost, L.J., & Jost, J.T., (2007). Why Marx left philosophy for social science. Theory & Psychology, 17, 297-322.
Kay, A. C., Jost, J.T., Mandisodza, A.N., Sherman , S.J., Petrocelli, J.V., & Johnson, A.L. (2007). Panglossian ideology in the service of system justification: How complementary stereotypes help us to rationalize inequality. In M. Zanna (Ed.), Advances in Experimental Social Psychology (Vol. 39, pp. 305-358). San Diego, CA: Elsevier.
Mendes, W.B., Blascovich, J., Hunter, S.B., Lickel, B. & Jost, J.T. (2007). Threatened by the unexpected: Physiological responses during social interactions with expectancy-violating partners. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 92, 698-716
Thorisdottir, H., Jost, J.T., Liviatan, I., & Shrout, P. (2007). Psychological needs and values underlying left-right political orientation: Cross-national evidence from Eastern and Western Europe. Public Opinion Quarterly, 71, 175-203.
Tyler , T.R., & Jost, J.T. (2007). Psychology and the law: Reconciling normative and descriptive accounts of social justice and system legitimacy. In A.W. Kruglanski & E.T. Higgins (Eds.), Social psychology: Handbook of basic principles (2nd ed., pp. 807-825). New York : Guilford .
Wakslak, C., Jost, J.T., Tyler, T.R., & Chen, E. (2007). Moral outrage mediates the dampening effect of system justification on support for redistributive social policies. Psychological Science, 18, 267-274.
Jost, J.T. (2006). The end of the end of ideology. American Psychologist, 61, 651-670. (Awarded the SPSSI Gordon AllportPrize)
Blasi, G., & Jost, J.T. (2006). System justification theory and research: Implications for law, legal advocacy, and social justice.California Law Review, 94, 1119-1168.
Bonanno, G.A., & Jost, J.T. (2006). Conservative shift among high-exposure survivors of the September 11th terrorist attacks.Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 28, 311-323.
Mandisodza, A., Jost, J.T., & Unzueta, M. (2006). "Tall poppies" and "American dreams": Reactions to rich and poor in Australia and the U.S.A. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 37, 659-668
Napier, J., Mandisodza, A., Andersen, S.M., & Jost, J.T. (2006). System justification in responding to the poor and displaced in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy, 6, 57-73.
Jost, J.T., & Hunyady, O. (2005). Antecedents and consequences of system-justifying ideologies. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 14, 260-265.
Jost, J.T., & Kay, A.C. (2005). Exposure to benevolent sexism and complementary gender stereotypes: Consequences for specific and diffuse forms of system justification. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 88, 498-509.
Jost, J.T., Kivetz, Y., Rubini, M., Guermandi, G., & Mosso, C. (2005). System-justifying functions of complementary regional and ethnic stereotypes: Cross-national evidence. Social Justice Research, 18, 305-333.
Kay, A.C., Jost, J.T., & Young, S. (2005). Victim derogation and victim enhancement as alternate routes to system justification. Psychological Science, 16, 240-246.
Jost, J.T., & Hamilton, D.L. (2005). Stereotypes in our culture. In J. Dovidio, P. Glick, & L. Rudman (Eds.), On the Nature of Prejudice: Fifty years after Allport (pp. 208-224). Oxford: Blackwell.
Jost, J.T., Banaji, M.R., & Nosek, B.A. (2004). A decade of system justification theory: Accumulated evidence of conscious and unconscious bolstering of the status quo. Political Psychology, 25, 881-919. Italian Translation
Jost, Fitzsimons, & Kay (2004). The ideological animal: A system justification view. In J. Greenberg, S.L. Koole, & T.Pyszczynski (Eds.) Handbook of experimental existential psychology (pp. 263-282). New York: Guilford Press.
Overbeck, J., Jost, J.T., Mosso, C., & Flizik, A. (2004). Resistant vs. acquiescent responses to group inferiority as a function of social dominance orientation in the USA and Italy. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 7, 35-54.
Kay, A.C., & Jost, J.T. (2003). Complementary justice: Effects of "poor but happy" and "poor but honest" sterotype exemplars on system justification and implicit activation of the justice motive. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 85, 823-837.
Jost, J.T., Glaser, J., Kruglanski, A.W., & Sulloway, F. (2003a). Political conservatism as motivated social cognition.Psychological Bulletin, 129, 339-375. Hungarian Translation.
Jost, J.T., Glaser, J., Kruglanski, A.W., & Sulloway, F. (2003b). Exceptions that prove the rule: Using a theory of motivated social cognition to account for ideological incongruities and political anomalies. Psychological Bulletin, 129, 383-393.
Blair, I.V., & Jost, J.T. (2003). Exit, loyalty, and collective action among workers in a simulated business environment: Interactive effects of group identification and boundary permeability. Social Justice Research, 16, 95-108.
Jost, J.T., Blount, S., Pfeffer, J., & Hunyady, Gy. (2003). Fair market ideology: Its cognitive-motivational underpinnings.Research in Organizational Behavior, 25, 53-91.
Jost, J.T., Pelham, B.W., Sheldon, O., & Sullivan, B.N. (2003). Social inequality and the reduction of ideological dissonance on behalf of the system: Evidence of enhanced system justification among the disadvantaged. European Journal of Social Psychology, 33, 13-36. Hungarian Translation
Jost, J.T., Pelham, B.W., & Carvallo, M. (2002). Non-conscious forms of system justification: Cognitive, affective, and behavioral preferences for higher status groups. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 38, 586-602. Hungarian Translation
Kay, A., Jimenez, M.C., & Jost, J.T. (2002). Sour grapes, sweet lemons, and the anticipatory rationalization of the status quo.Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 28, 1300-1312.
Jost, J.T., & Hunyady, O. (2002). The psychology of system justification and the palliative function of ideology. European Review of Social Psychology, 13, 111-153. (Awarded the SPSP Theoretical Innovation Prize)
Jost, J.T., & Kruglanski, A.W. (2002). The estrangement of social constructionism and experimental social psychology: History of the rift and prospects for reconciliation. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 6, 168-187. Italian Translation (abridged)
Jost, J.T. (2001). Outgroup favoritism and the theory of system justification: An experimental paradigm for investigating the effects of socio-economic success on stereotype content. In G. Moskowitz (Ed.), Cognitive social psychology: The Princetonsymposium on the legacy and future of social cognition (pp. 89-102). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. Hungarian Translation
Jost, J.T., Burgess, D., & Mosso, C. (2001). Conflicts of legitimation among self, group, and system: The integrative potential of system justification theory. In J.T. Jost and B. Major (Eds.), The psychology of legitimacy: Emerging perspectives on ideology, justice, and intergroup relations (pp. 363-388). New York: Cambridge University Press. Hungarian Translation
Stangor, C., Sechrist, G.B., & Jost, J.T. (2001). Changing racial beliefs by providing consensus information. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 27, 486-496.
Zuckerman, E., & Jost, J.T. (2001). What makes you think you're so popular? Self-evaluation maintenance and the subjective side of the "friendship paradox." Social Psychology Quarterly, 64, 207-223.
Haines, E.L., & Jost, J.T. (2000). Placating the powerless: Effects of legitimate and illegitimate explanation on affect, memory, and stereotyping. Social Justice Research, 13, 219-236. Hungarian Translation
Jost, J.T., & Burgess, D. (2000). Attitudinal ambivalence and the conflict between group and system justification motives in low status groups. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 26, 293-305.
Jost, J.T., & Thompson, E.P. (2000). Group-based dominance and opposition to equality as independent predictors of self-esteem, ethnocentrism, and social policy attitudes among African Americans and European Americans. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 36, 209-232. Hungarian Translation
Opinion - Editorials
Kruglanski & Jost Editorial in the Washington Post
Jost Op-Ed in The London Times (Higher Education Supplement)
Research on Stereotyping, Predudice and System Justification Theory:
After the Financial Meltdown, Where's America's Outrage?
The Biggest Roadblock to Change May Be in Our Minds
Apocalypse Fatigue: Losing the Public on Climate Change
Can You Guess a Person's Politics by Personality?
The Denial Justification
Diminished Sense of Moral Outrage Key to Maintaining View That World Is Fair and Just
Employees' Misperception about their Rights
Women, Politics and Spirituality
Stereotypes Can Reinforce the Status Quo
Women Undervalue Themselves in Setting Pay Rates
Not a Two-Bit Problem
You've Come a Long Way Baby. Or Have You?
Wiping Out Prejudices Before They Start
Research on Political Ideology:
Born This Way (New York Magazine)
Political Science: What Being Neat or Messy Says About Political Leanings
Are Conservatives Happier Than Liberals?
This is Your Brain on Politics
How Our Unconscious Votes
Research Shows Political Leanings Depend on How Brain Processes Information
Political Leanings May Show in Brain
Red State, Blue State: Is it a State of Mind Or Just the Colors On a Map?
The End of Ideology
Psychological Science is Not Politically Correct
The American Character
New York Times Article entitled "Across the Great Divide: Investigating Links Between Personality and Politics"
The Ideological Animal
"Pseudo-Conservative": An Update on the Origins of the Term
Daily Kos Interview with John Dean
Why the Supreme Court Makes Justices More Liberal
Unclaimed Territory
What Conservatives Have in Common
Will Brain Scans Someday Reveal Our Political Minds?
One Kid, Two Kid, Red Kid, Blue Kid
Right Mind
Study of Bush's Psyche Touches a Nerve
Conservatives Deconstructed
A Look at the Psychology of Conservatism
Chemtrail Central
Political Conservatism
George Will, Catholic Nuns, and the Ramifications of Authoritarian-Conservatives
Book Reviews of The Psychology of Legitimacy: Emerging Perspectives on Ideology, Justice, and Intergroup Relations
The Psychology of Legitimacy: Emerging Perspectives on Ideology, Justice, and Intergroup Relations - Book Review
David Sears Review
Review in Political Studies Review
Perceived Legitimacy in the Struggle for Civl Rights - Book Review
Karen Hegtvedt Review
Henry A.Walker Review
Book Reviews of "Perspectivism in Social Psychology: The Yin and Yang of Scientific Progress"
Connie Wolfe Review
John B. Pryor Review
Book Review of Michael Shermer's The Believing Brain by John T. Jost
Jost, J. T. (2011, September 2). That's incredible! Science, 333, 1222-1233.
Book Review of Phil Tetlock's Expert Political Judgment by John T Jost
Jost, J. T. (2006). Political psychology: The perils of prognostication. Science, 312, 1876-1877.
Tributes to William J.McGuire (1925-2007)
Jost & Banaji. McGuire obituary: American Psychologist
Dogma & Ideology Radio Interview 4.21.09
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Department of Psychology
New York University
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If you asked me to rank all the major U.S. carriers in relation to their support for Android, I would probably place AT&T at the bottom. They were the last carrier to launch an Android phone, they lock down their devices from installing non-Market apps, and they didn't have any high-end Android phones till this summer when they launched the Samsung Captivate.
Most of us assumed AT&T wasn't really interested in pushing Android because they were the privileged carrier for the iPhone in the U.S. and had a tight alliance with Apple. As some of you are aware by now that exclusive relationship is coming to an end and Apple is making a version of its iPhone that is headed to Verizon early next year.
Now that the shackles have come off AT&T, they are ready to embrace every mobile OS (Android, BlackBerry, iOS, Palm, WP7) and it appears Google fans are about to get a lot of love.
According to a trusted source who wishes to remain anonymous (yeah, yeah, I know!), AT&T has made a deal with Motorola and will likely be the first carrier to launch a dual-core phone running Gingerbread (which might actually turn out to be Android 3.0 – that is still uncertain). That device is the Motorola Olympus MB860, which we have lovingly been referring to as the Terminator.
We already knew the Terminator (Tegra 2, get it?) was coming to multiple carriers in early 2011, but none had been named outside of Verizon. I previously wrote that another carrier would launch the phone before Verizon, so it makes sense that Motorola is teaming up with the 2nd largest carrier to promote their next flagship product.
Hopefully we can wrangle up some blurry-cam photos for all the non-believers, but I don't think the juicy leaks with all the details will appear till November when this phone reaches the hands of testers.
As for Verizon's version of the device, I'm still getting conflicting reports on whether it will really be their first 4G LTE phone or not. Some are saying every Droid phone in 2011 will be LTE and others are saying LTE phones will not appear till summer 2011 (later than the launch of this superphone). The Motorola 10.1 inch tablet (Stingray/Everest/Etc.) will definitely support Verizon's 4G with a plugin LTE modem, but I'm really doubting they can launch a 4G phone in early 2011. I guess we will find out at CES in a couple of months. Please prove me wrong Verizon.
Finally, I'm sorry Sprint and T-Mobile fans but I have no news for you regarding this "Terminator" phone. Maybe that LG phone with Tegra 2 will magically appear in the coming months, but I have heard absolutely nothing since the press release last month and they delayed their tablet to 2011.
p.s. I thought I was the only one really following this Tegra 2 phone story, but keep your eyes on Kellen from Droid-Life because he has joined me in the hunt.


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Adult Day Care
Namkee G. Choi
Adult day care centers provide important health, social, and support services for functionally and cognitively impaired adults and their caregivers. The adult day care services are underutilized, however, because of the shortage of centers, caregivers' lack of awareness of and resistance to using services, and the mismatch between the needs of potential consumers and their informal caregivers and the services provided by the centers. To foster and support the expansion of adult day care centers, lessons learned from national demonstration programs need to be disseminated, and social workers need to be trained to provide essential services at the centers.
Adult Protective Services
Patricia Brownell and Joanne Marlatt Otto
Adult Protective Services (APS) are empowered by states and local communities to respond to reports and cases of vulnerable adult abuse, neglect, and self-neglect. While incorporating legal, medical, and mental health services, APS programs are part of the social services delivery system and incorporate principles and practices of the social work profession.
Adults: Group Care
Sheryl Zimmerman
This entry presents information about group settings that provide residential long-term care for older adults, focusing on nursing homes and residential care/assisted living communities. It provides an overview of both settings, and describes their scope of services, funding, and clientele. The section Issues in Residential Long-Term Care addresses issues of special relevance to social workers: dementia and other psychosocial care needs; quality of life and quality of care; access to and disparities in care; end-of-life care; family involvement; and abuse and neglect. It ends with a section on the role of the social worker in residential long-term care.
Aging: Services
Nancy Morrow-Howell and Leslie Hasche
Despite high levels of functioning among older adults, chronic health conditions lead to impairment and the need for help. Family members provide most of the assistance; yet formal services such as in-home personal and homemaker services, congregate and home-delivered meals, adult day services, employment and educational services, transportation, nursing homes, assisted and supportive living facilities, legal and financial services, and case management are available. Even with the growing number and type of services, unequal access and uneven quality persist. In these settings, social workers develop and administer programs, provide clinical care, offer case management and discharge planning, and contribute to policy development.
Alzheimer's Disease and Other Dementias
Carole B. Cox
Dementia is not a disease, but a group of symptoms so severe that they inhibit normal functioning. Alzheimer's disease is the most common type of dementia in older persons impacting not only the person with the illness but the entire family. Obtaining an accurate diagnosis is essential in order to assure appropriate and timely care and to exclude reversible causes of dementia. Social workers can play key roles throughout the course of the illness as educators, therapists, supporter and advocates for improved policies and services.
Behavioral Theory
Beth Angell
Behavioral theory seeks to explain human behavior by analyzing the antecedents and consequences present in the individual's environment and the learned associations he or she has acquired through previous experience. This entry describes the various traditions within the behavioral perspective (classical conditioning, operant conditioning, cognitively mediated behavioral theory, and functional contextualism) and the clinical applications that are derived from them. Common criticisms are discussed in light of the ongoing evolution of behavioral theory and the fit of its tenets with the field of social work.
Care Transitions, Patient Health, and System Performance in the United States
June Simmons, Sandy Atkins, Janice Lynch Schuster, and Melissa Jones
Transitions in care occur when a patient moves from an institutional setting, such as a hospital or nursing home, to home or community, often with the hope or expectation of improving health status. At the very least, patients, clinicians, and caregivers aim to achieve stability and avoid complications that would precipitate a return to the emergency department (ED) or hospital. For some groups of vulnerable people, especially the very old and frail, such transitions often require specific, targeted coaching and supports that enable them to make the change successfully. Too often, as research indicates, these transitions are poorly executed and trigger a cycle of hospital readmissions and worsening health, even death. In recognizing these perils, organizations have begun to see that by improving the care transition process, they can improve health outcomes and reduce costs while ensuring safety, consistency, and continuity. While some of this improvement relies on medical care, coaching, social services and supports are often also essential. Lack of timely medical follow-up, transportation, inadequate nutrition, medication issues, low health literacy, and poverty present barriers to optimal health outcomes. By addressing social and environmental determinants of health and chronic disease self-management, social workers who make home visits or other proven timely interventions to assess and coach patients and their caregivers are demonstrating real results. This article describes care transitions interventions, research into barriers and opportunities, and specific programs aimed at improvement.
Counseling Older Adult Victims of Ageism in the Workplace
Margo A. Jackson
Despite the significant life and work experiences that a growing number of older adults have to contribute to the workforce, pervasive ageism operates in overt and covert ways to discriminate against older workers in hiring and workplace practices. This article provides a current overview of definitions, prevalence, types, and effects of ageism in the U.S. workplace. For social workers counseling older adult victims of workplace ageism, this article discusses theories, foundational knowledge, and ongoing self-awareness and training needed for bias awareness. Counseling strategies and resources are highlighted, including coping and resilience strategies to counteract ageist stereotypes and discrimination, facilitate job-seeking support, and advocate for older workers by promoting awareness and serving as a resource for employers to reduce workplace ageism.
Family Caregiving
Sandra Owens and Letha A. Chadiha
There is evidence that family caregiving in the United States has been increasing at an unprecedented rate as a result of various societal issues. This entry provides a summary of the scholarly literature regarding elder-caregiving trends, demographics, legislation, challenges, and racial and socioeconomic impacts, as well as the rewards of caregiving. Additionally, the entry provides empirical findings regarding evidence-based interventions associated with family caregiving of older adults.
Health Care: Practice Interventions
Lois F. Cowles
Social work in health care emerged with immigration and urbanization associated with industrialization, and the resultant shift from physician visits to the patient's home and workplace to hospital-centered care. This change is alleged to have resulted in a loss of the doctor's perspective of the psychosocial influences on physical health. Originally, some nurses were assigned the function of addressing this loss. But eventually, the function became recognized as that of a social worker. From its beginnings in the general hospital setting in the late 1800s, social work in health care, that is, medical social work, has expanded into multiple settings of health care, and the role of the social worker from being a nurse to requiring a Master's Degree in Social Work (MSW) from a university. However, the broad function of social work in health care remains much the same, that is, "to remove the obstacles in the patient's surroundings or in his mental attitude that interfere with successful treatment, thus freeing him to aid in his own recovery" (Cannon, 1923. p 15). Health care social workers are trained to work across the range of "methods," that is, work with individuals, small groups, and communities (social work "methods" are called "casework", "group work" and "community organization"). They work to assist the patient, using a broad range of interventions, including, when indicated, speaking on behalf of the client (advocacy), helping clients to assert themselves, to modify undesirable behaviors, to link with needed resources, to face their challenges, to cope with crises, to develop improved understanding of their health-related thought processes and habits, to build needed self confidence to do what is required to help themselves deal with their health problem, to gain insight and support from others who are in a similar situation, to gain strength from humor, or from a supportive environment, and through spiritual experience, and from practicing tasks that are needed to deal with their health-related problems or from joining forces with others in the community to modify it in the interest of improved health status for all, or to gradually restore a sense of stability and normalcy after a traumatic experience. Most important of all, perhaps, is the "helping relationship" between client and social worker, which needs to be one of total understanding and acceptance of the client as a person. A sizable portion of the U.S. population lacks financial access to health care, where health care is regarded as a privilege rather than a right, as it is seen in all other industrial nations (except South Africa). Current trends in the U.S. health care system reflect efforts to control rising health care costs without dealing with the "real problems," which are: (1) the lack of a single-payer health care system and: (2) the lack of focus on "public health."
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Chanuka for Women
From: Jill in Toronto
Dear Rabbi,
What is the special connection of women to Chanuka? In particular, why do women customarily rest or refrain from work while the candles are burning when this candle lighting, as opposed to Shabbat, is done by the men?
The main reason women rest while the candles are burning is because after slaving in the kitchen all day to make latkes and doughnuts, they deserve a break. Just kidding (about the reason that is, not about deserving a break).
The main reason is that as opposed to Shabbat where the women work in preparation and light the candles while the men do nothing to help, on Chanuka the men work to light and the women get a chance to relax. Just kidding (about the reason that is, not about men not helping enough for Shabbat).
And now for the real reason…
The very name of Chanuka implies resting, relaxing or refraining from difficult or mundane tasks. How so? Chanuka can be read as two phrases: 'Chanu' and 'ka'. 'Chanu' means "they rested" and 'ka' is comprised of the letters 'kaf' and 'hey' which together have the numerical value of 25. This alludes to the fact that the Jews were relieved of their oppression on the 25th day of the month of Kislev, which is Chanuka.
Although all Jews experienced respite from Hellenistic repression, women in particular experienced a great relief, and also figured prominently in the redemption of Chanuka itself.
But in what way did women particularly suffer and in what manner did they participate in the miracle?
Despite the Greeks' stated purpose of battling the spirituality of Judaism in the name of "enlightened" Hellenism, one decree in particular was physical: Every Jewish woman who was to be married was to be brought first to the Greek ruler. This very ugly and degrading decree prevented many righteous women from becoming wives, or compromised others before they did.
In this context, the redemption came about through the heroism of a woman. Yehudit, daughter of Yochanan the High Priest and aunt of Judah the Maccabee, was especially beautiful and the tyrant ruler desired her. Pretending to acquiesce, she came to him and first fed him cheese dishes which made him thirsty (the source for eating dairy foods on Chanuka). She then brought him wine to quench his thirst. When he became drunk and fell asleep, she beheaded him and displayed the prize above the city walls. When the enemy soldiers saw the head of their decapitated leader, they fled and the Jews were saved.
It is for this reason, then, that women in particular simultaneously rest and reflect on the relief and redemption that the Chanuka lights reflect. And, by the way, it is similarly for this reason that not only men, but also women have a mitzvah to light thechanukiyah.


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2008 Top 100 Profiles 26-50
The 2008 top 100 food and beverage processing companies in the U.S. and Canada are profiled in this annual feature. Find company contact information, major brands, key executives and main product areas.
26. Procter & Gamble Co.
One Procter & Gamble Plaza, Cincinnati, OH 45202
Phone: 513-983-1100; Fax: 513-983-9369; Web site: www.pg.com
Executives: Chrmn/CEO: A.G. Lafley; Global Human Resources Officer: Richard L. Antoine; Chief Technology Officer: G. Gilbert Cloyd; CFO: Clayton C. Daley Jr.; Chief Legal Officer & Secretary: James J. Johnson; Global Customer Business Development Officer: Mariano Martin; Global External Relations: Charlotte R. Otto; Global Marketing Officer: James R. Stengel; VP & Treasurer: John P. Goodwin; VP & Comptroller: Valarie L. Sheppard; President Global Strategy: Marc S. Pritchard; SVP-Corporate Research &
Development: Nabil Y. Sakkab
Brands: Folgers, Home Cafe, Millstone, Pringles, IAMS
Major Product Areas: Coffee, snack foods, pet care
27. H.J. Heinz Co.
One PPG Place, Pittsburgh, PA 15219
Phone: 412-456-5700; Fax: 412-456-6128; Web site: www.heinz.com
Executives: Chmn., & Pres/CEO: William Johnson; EVP & General Counsel: Theodore Bobby; SVP-Finance and Corporate Controller: Edward McMenamin; SVP-Heinz Pacific, Rest of World: Michael Milone; EVP & Pres/CEO-Heinz North America: David Moran; EVP- & Pres/CEO-Heinz Europe: C. Scott O'Hara; SVP, Chief Administrative Officer and Corporate and Government Affairs: D. Edward Smyth; SVP-Heinz Asia: Chris Warmoth; EVP & CFO: Arthur Winkleblack
Subsidiaries, Divisions: Heinz Canada, North York, Ontario; Heinz Central Eastern Europe, Budapest, Hungary; Heinz Europe, London, England; Heinz Frozen Food Co., Pittsburgh; Heinz Pacific Rim, Auckland, New Zealand; Heinz Southern Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa; Star-Kist Foods, Newport, Ky., Renee's Gourmet Foods, Canada.
Brands: Bella Rossa, Boston Market, Chef Francisco, Classico, Catelli, Dianne's, Delimex, Earth's Best, Farley's, Guloso, Heinz, Ken-L-Ration, Olivine, Ore-Ida, Orlando, Plasmon, Quality Chef Foods, Smart Ones, Starkist, T.G.I. Friday's, Truesoups, Wattie's, Weight Watchers, Wyler's, Vlassic
Major Product Areas: Canned, frozen and preserved foods, miscellaneous
28. Weston Foods
255 Business Center Drive, Ste. 200, Horsham, PA 19044
Phone: 215-672-8010; Fax: 215-672-6988; Web site: www.weston.ca
Executives: President, Weston Foods Canada: Ralph A. Robinson; President, Weston Foods United States: Gary J. Prince; VP, Operations: Charles W. Loschmann; SVP, Finance: Bill Petersen
A division of George Weston Ltd.
Brands: Arnold, Country Harvest, D'Italiano, Entenmann's, Freihofer's, Neilson, Stroehmann, Thomas', Weston, Wonder
Major Product Areas: Bakery, dairy
29. Land O'Lakes Inc.
P.O. Box 64101, St. Paul, MN 55164
Phone: 612-481-2222; 800-328-9680; Fax: 612-481-2022; Web site: www.landolakes.com
Executives: Pres./CEO: Chris Policinski; SVP & CFO: Dan Knutson; EVP-Land O'Lakes Purina Feed: Fernando Palacios; EVP & COO-Dairy Foods Value-Added: Steve Dunphy; EVP & COO-Dairy Foods Industrial: Alan Pierson; VP-Seed: Dave Seehusen; VP-HR: Karen Grabow; VP & General Counsel: Peter Janzen; VP-Public Affairs: Jim Fife; VP-Strategy & Business Development: Barry Wolfish
Brands: Country Morning Blend, Land O'Lakes
Major Product Areas: Dairy
30. Saputo Inc.
6869 Metropolitain Blvd. East, Saint-Leonard, Quebec, H1P 1X8
Phone: 514-328-6662; Fax: 514-328-3310; Web site: www.saputo.com
Executives: Chmn: Lino Saputo Sr.; Pres./CEO: Lino Saputo Jr.; EVP Finance & Admin.: Louis-Philippe Carriere; Pres./COO-USA Cheese Div.: Terry Brockman
Brands: Armstrong, Dragone, Frigo, Frigo Cheesheads, Gardenia, Lorraine, Saputo, Stella, Treasure Cave
Major Product Areas: Dairy products (mostly cheese), bakery
31. Del Monte Foods
One Market St., San Francisco, CA 94105
Phone: 415-247-3382; Fax: 415-247-3565; Web site: www.delmonte.com
Executives: Chrmn & CEO: Richard G. Wolford; EVP & CFO: David L. Meyers; EVP: Timothy C. Cole; COO: Nils Lommerin; SVP-Supply Chain Operations: David W. Allen; SVP & Chief Accounting Officer: Richard L. French; SVP, General Counsel & Secretary: Apurva S. Mody; SVP-Marketing Innovation: Barry A. Shepard; SVP-Pet Products: Jeffrey M. Watters; VP & Treasurer: Jeff M. Berry
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The transaction manager makes it possible to commit and roll back distributed transactions.
A distributed transactional system writes transactional activity into transaction logs so that they can be recovered later. But writing transactional logs has some performance penalty.
Transaction Manager monitoring is disabled by default. Enable monitoring of the transaction service with the Admin Console at Configurations > config-name > Monitoring.
You can also enable monitoring with these commands:
set serverInstance.transaction-service.monitoringEnabled=true reconfig serverInstance
When you have enabled monitoring of the transaction service, view results
With Admin Console at Standalone Instances > server-name (Monitor | Monitor). Select transaction-service from the View dropdown.
With this command:
asadmin get -m serverInstance.transaction-service.*
The following statistics are gathered on the transaction service:
total-tx-completed Completed transactions.
total-tx-rolled-back Total rolled back transactions.
total-tx-inflight Total inflight (active) transactions.
isFrozen Whether transaction system is frozen (true or false)
inflight-tx List of inflight (active) transactions.
Here is a sample of the output using asadmin:
********** Stats for JTS ************ total-tx-completed = 244283 total-tx-rolled-back = 2640 total-tx-inflight = 702 isFrozen = False inflight-tx = Transaction Id , Status, ElapsedTime(msec) 000000000003C95A_00, Active, 999
This property can be used to disable the transaction logging, where the performance is of utmost importance more than the recovery. This property, by default, won't exist in the server configuration.
To disable distributed transaction logging with the Admin Console, go to Configurations > config-name > Transaction Service. Click on Add Property, and specify:
Name: disable-distributed-transaction-logging
Value: true
You can also set this property with asadmin, for example:
asadmin set server1.transaction-service.disable-distributed-transaction-logging=true
Setting this attribute to true disables transaction logging, which can improve performance. Setting it to false (the default), makes the transaction service write transactional activity to transaction logs so that transactions can be recovered. If Recover on Restart is checked, this property is ignored.
Set this property to true only if performance is more important than transaction recovery.
To set the Recover on Restart attribute with the Admin Console, go to Configurations > config-name > Transaction Service. Click the Recover check box to set it to true (checked, the default) or false (un-checked).
You can also set automatic recovery with asadmin, for example:
asadmin set server1.transaction-service.automatic-recovery=false
When Recover on Restart is true, the server will always perform transaction logging, regardless of the Disable Distributed Transaction Logging attribute.
If Recover on Restart is false, then:
If Disable Distributed Transaction Logging is false (the default), then the server will write transaction logs.
If Disable Distributed Transaction Logging is true, then the server will not write transaction logs.
Not writing transaction logs will give approximately twenty percent improvement in performance, but at the cost of not being able to recover from any interrupted transactions. The performance benefit applies to transaction-intensive tests. Gains in real applications may be less.
The keypoint interval determines how often entries for completed transactions are removed from the log file. Keypointing prevents a process log from growing indefinitely.
Frequent keypointing is detrimental to performance. The default value of the Keypoint Interval is 2048, which is sufficient in most cases.


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Our minimally invasive surgical techniques limit pain and reduce recovery time.
At NYU Langone Colon and Rectal Surgery, our surgeons specialize in using the most advanced laparoscopic and robotic surgical techniques to aid in the detection, diagnosis, and treatment of conditions that affect the lower gastrointestinal system, specifically the colon, rectum, and anus.
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Area projects among winners of Regional Economic Development Council awards
State Sen. George Maziarz announced Wednesday that 13 job creation projects in the 62nd Senate District will receive critically important state funds through the second round of Regional Economic Development Council awards.
"This is tremendous news because these projects will strengthen our economy and help create and retain jobs," Maziarz said. "Our community leaders serving on the Regional Economic Development Council have worked hard to put together an economic development strategy that takes advantage of the tremendous resources, skills and talent in our area. I applaud Gov. Cuomo and Lt. Gov. Duffy for this successful initiative that is spurring job growth and building a stronger economy for the future."
Cuomo said, "For the second year in a row, the Regional Councils have been on the forefront of rebuilding New York state's economy. For too many years, top-down economic development policies have failed communities across the state and not truly invested in the unique resources and strengths of each of New York's regions. Now a new, bottom-up approach is in place that brings local communities together to chart their own economic destiny. The second round of Regional Economic Development Council awards will deliver funding for critical projects and investments in communities across our state, helping put New Yorkers back to work and rebuilding our economy."
The following job creation projects in the 62nd Senate
District will receive funding from the second round of the Regional Economic
Development Council program:
Monroe County
Orleans County
Niagara County
"I have been proud to work with people from every part of our area, including leaders in business, education, local governments, economic development and planning and others, to develop a list of job creation projects that achieve our goals of creating jobs and building a strong foundation for future growth," Maziarz said.
Statewide, a total of $738 million was awarded for 725 economic development projects in every region of New York.


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The rupee started 2013 on a positive note tracking gains in local shares after US lawmakers agreed on a deal which would help avert the "fiscal cliff" but weak domestic data limited a sharper rise.
The Senate moved the US economy back from the edge of a "fiscal cliff" on Tuesday, voting to avoid imminent tax hikes and spending cuts in a bipartisan deal that could still face stiff challenges in the House of Representatives.
India's current account deficit widened to a record high of 5.4 per cent of GDP in the September quarter as export growth slowed more sharply than imports, data released just around market close on Monday showed.
Traders said going by the current data it was likely that the data for the Oct-Dec quarter would be even worse and it would be a key factor that forex participants would watch out for in the coming months.
Traders broadly expect the rupee to gain in 2013 on the back of rate cut hopes, recently announced reforms and the likelihood of sustained dollar inflows on the back of loose monetary policy in most countries globally.
"There are enough negatives like increasing imports and current account deficit, political instability, high fiscal deficit, high inflation, uncertainty in Europe," said Samir Lodha, managing director at QuantArt Market Solutions.
"However, at this stage we feel moderately bullish about the rupee - assuming capital flows will weigh on current account deficit for a while. I see the rupee at around 53 levels by end-March".
The partially convertible rupee closed at 54.68/69 per dollar versus its previous close of 54.99/55.00.
Traders said gains in the domestic share market also boosted sentiment for the rupee.
The BSE Sensex ended up 0.8 per cent after the US deal.
In the offshore non-deliverable forwards, the one-month contract was at 54.96 while the three-month was at 55.50.
In currency futures, the most-traded near-month dollar/rupee contracts on the National Stock Exchange, the MCX-SX and the United Stock Exchange all closed at around 55.04 with total traded volume on the three exchanges at $2.99 billion.
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Report from Worldwide Food Expo 2007
Where's the next trend? Food Processing's editors scour the expo to report the industry's latest and greatest.
When Harry Balzer, vice president NPD Group, discusses the latest findings of the company's National Eating Trends, audiences listen. As he pointed out in his presentation "Consumer Trends: What America Eats and Drinks," consumer behavior doesn't change dramatically, it changes slowly and manufacturers should attempt to sort out trends from fads.
"'If I show you what's in the product, you'll change your behavior,' was the goal when the Nutrition Labeling & Education Act was passed in 1990," says Balzer. Was the goal reached? According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), among adults aged 20-74 years, the prevalence of obesity increased from 15 percent (in the 1976–1980 survey) to 32.9 percent (in the 2003–2004 survey). On the positive side, obesity and overweight statistics are flattening out, as Americans attempt to get fit. In contrast, the hottest menu items in restaurants are snack wraps and fried chicken sandwiches, rather than last year's favorite -- salad.
Checking out labels has become a national obsession. Balzer says consumers consider calories (49.2 percent), total fat (46.5 percent) and sugars (41.7 percent) the most important things to monitor, and they are also concerned about trans fat.
Also on the plus side for food manufacturers, consumers give positive marks to foods containing whole grains/dietary fiber, antioxidants, omega-3s and yogurt. And some 24.5 percent of the population says it buys organic products occasionally. After a decade of decline, preparing meals at home rose from 850 in 2006 to 861 in 2007, says Balzer. More men are wearing the toque (12.6 percent) compared to 11.3 percent in 2006. Part of that can be attributed to working moms. In 1950, 33 percent of moms worked outside the home, but in 2006, a whopping 59 percent of moms were in the workforce.
Today's moms are feeding their kids nearly identical foods for breakfast as moms did two decades ago. "New moms today are asking the same question their moms asked when deciding what to feed the kids, 'What is the easiest way to get this job done?' " says Balzer. "Often times, it's the way their mom did it." Convenience and portability reign with mom, so bacon and eggs breakfasts are being replaced with frozen waffles (up 19 percent from 20 years ago), yogurt (up 15 percent) and toaster pastries (up 12 percent). The big loser is toast, down by 20 percent.
Balzer concluded by saying Americans like to try new things … "but don't mistake this for a trend." Other findings include: It takes generations to change what we perceive tastes good; Convenience is No. 1, we always move to easier ways to prepare food; and Cost is key. "Never let food costs rise faster than incomes."
Meanwhile, out there on the show floor:
Paperboard packaging continues to put up a good fight for packaging, even outside of the dairy category. Rank Group, an investment firm from New Zealand, has acquired and combined SIG Combibloc, Evergreen Packaging and Blue Ridge Paper Products. They were all together in a large display at the show, offering packaging materials and equipment in both fresh and aseptic packaging.
Tetra Pak Inc. (www.tetrapak.com) took center stage on the sustainability front with its showcase of eco-friendly packaging. Ed Klein, the company's vice president of environmental affairs, presenting on the topic during one of the expo's Dairy Tech sessions, demonstrated how "going green" involves more than recyclability and reuse. Klein explained how eco-friendly materials must be coupled with package design to reduce weight, damage and transportation costs. He also explained how energy expenditure to produce and use the materials for packaging makes "going green" a cradle-to-cradle process to ensure effective environmental benefits.
Engineers from architectural-engineering-construction firm Stellar (www.stellar.com) took in the show to discuss with potential clients what they think will be 2008's top manufacturing trends: lean manufacturing, Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification and automation strategies.
Among products introduced at Worldwide Food Expo:
The Cryovac packaging division (www.cryovac.com) of Sealed Air Corp. introduced a novel package that holds meat and a marinade separately but them combines them with a little squeeze. The Marinade on Demand package keeps the two components in separate pockets of the thermoformed rollstock package. But a little pressure pops a seal on a channel that joins the two. The marinade can be added to the meat at any desired time, all the while keeping the contents sterile. While foodservice is the initial target market, Cryovac foresees retail packages down the road.
G&K Services (www.gkservices.com) promoted its ProSura line of uniforms and towels. In particular, the Biosmart fabric from Milliken Chemical is a patent-pending textile technology that binds chlorine molecules to the surface of fabric. Chlorine on the fabric will continue to kill germs long after the fabric has been washed.
Multivac (www.multivac.com) introduced the R535 line of thermoform packaging machines. The horizontal form-fill-seal machine has an enhanced hygienic design, built with a foamy clean-in-place step built into the program that cleans both the inside and outside of the machine. Successive models in this line will arrive next year.
APV Invensys (www.apv.com) introduced a stainless steel version of its V2 pump. This is a simplified, maintenance-friendly and efficient centrifugal pump featuring a four-blade, fully open, non-clog impeller. It's engineered for CIP cleaning, comes in five seal types and meets 3-A sanitary standards. Also new are the MS4 aseptic valve for dairy and beverage applications, the thin NR5 heat exchanger and a redesign of the Paraflow heat exchanger.
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ROCHESTER -- The Rochester Youth Reach was presented this month with a check on behalf of all the REALTOR members of the Strafford County Board of REALTORS for their efforts at a recent Bowl-a-thon.
The Bowl-a-thon, held at Dover Bowl, was part bowling and part Ugly Sweater Contest. Family and friends all participated and there were many great… or ugly… sweaters in the crowd. Besides an antique bowling ball and shoes to the winner of the contest, the greatest gift was the opportunity to help out the Rochester Youth Reach Program.
The number of youth homelessness in Rochester continues to increase each year. For that reason, a team of social service agency personnel, business owners, state representatives, clergy members, police, school board members and city welfare director and others formed the Rochester Community Collaborative for Homelessness. This team has worked on a number of issues which included increasing the awareness of homeless children and youth in Rochester, working toward ensuring their access to healthcare, and pursuing options for adequate shelter for youth under the age of eighteen.
The funds have also been used to insure students full inclusion in school life through the provision of athletic equipment, yearbooks and graduation caps and gowns.
Now in its fifth year, the Collaborative membership has grown to fifty. It has formally evolved into a nonprofit organization entitled the Rochester Youth Reach. The mission statement is: "Youth in Need + A Caring Community = A More Promising future".
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Actor plays Mycroft Holmes, Sherlock Holmes' brother
Rhys Ifans has been cast in the recurring role of Sherlock Holmes' older brother, Mycroft Holmes, in the second season premiere of "Elementary," Thursday, Sept. 26 (10 p.m.), on CBS Television Network. For the first time, the premiere will be shot on location in London.
In the episode, Sherlock (Jonny Lee Miller) is called to London to revisit an old case, where he is forced to face his older brother, Mycroft. Although the siblings suffered a drastic falling-out a few years earlier, Mycroft allows Sherlock and Joan (Lucy Liu) to stay in his new home, 221B Baker Street. With Joan in the middle, the brothers are forced to confront their very complicated history.
"I could not be more excited to have Rhys coming aboard," said Executive Producer and Creator Robert Doherty. "I've always been a tremendous fan and feel very honored to have him in the fold. Equally excited are Jonny and Lucy, both of whom have worked with Rhys in feature films. I think this is going to be a lot of fun for all of us."
Ifans' credits include the feature films "The Amazing Spider-Man," "Notting Hill," "Anonymous" and the upcoming "Serena."
"Elementary" is a modern-day drama about Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Joan Watson, a crime-solving duo that cracks the NYPD's most impossible cases. Following his fall from grace in London and a stint in rehab, eccentric Sherlock escapes to Manhattan where his wealthy father forces him to live with his worst nightmare - a sober companion, Dr. Watson.


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By: Isabelle Kingsley, Category: Lifelong Learning, Date: 16 Feb 2012
In a day and age when saving energy is of high importance, there must be a valuable explanation for why office buildings keep their lights on at night.
As I sat looking out at the city from Darling Harbour the other night, I noticed that nearly all the floors of the big office buildings had their lights 'on'.
I compared the office buildings to large hotels and apartment buildings that had many of their lights 'off'— obviously because people occupying those rooms and units turn the lights off when they're not there. That makes absolute sense, doesn't it? So why isn't this same common sense not followed in office buildings?
I started doing some research online to find out. In this day and age when everyone is so conscious of the need to save energy in an effort to reduce carbon emissions, I thought surely there is a perfectly valuable and logical explanation to why all these lights are left 'on' at night.
To my surprise, this is what I found from various articles and blogs:
Surely cleaners don't clean every floor at once all night long, not all lights need to be kept on for security reasons, and high-rise buildings have red blinking antennas on the roof to prevent planes from hitting them. These reasons weren't convincing, so I dug a little deeper.
I found a study on overnight lighting in London's non-domestic building stock by the Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Unfortunately, it explained that the data collected "did not provide reasons for overnight lighting". However, the study did examine literature that suggests the following possible causes:
Are diffusion of responsibility, forgetfulness due to stress and lack of motivation proper reasons for most city office buildings to be wasting so much energy every night?
If these truly are the reasons for leaving office building lights on, then the solution is simple ... let's take responsibility and do something about it.
You might work in one of those tall, bright buildings that shine at night. Why not take action and see if you can get the lights turned off on your floor or in the entire building. Here are some suggestions:
If lack of financial resources comes up as a deterrent to installing motion-sensor lighting or a better security system, suggest some research into how much money it costs your office to leave the lights on all night. Investing in energy-saving solutions will likely be a cheaper option in the long run.
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A hernia is when a part of the intestine pushes through a weak spot in the belly (abdominal) muscles. The hernia creates a soft lump or bulge under the skin.
In children, a hernia often happens in 1 of these 2 places:
A baby can develop a hernia in the first few months of life. This happens because of a weakness in the belly muscles. Inguinal and umbilical hernias happen for slightly different reasons.
During pregnancy, all babies have an area called the inguinal canal. This goes from the abdomen to the genitals. In boys, this canal lets the testicles move from the belly to the scrotum, the sac that holds the testicles. Normally, a baby's inguinal canal closes shortly before or after birth. But in some cases the canal doesn't fully close. Then a loop of intestine can move into the inguinal canal through the weak spot in the belly wall. This causes an inguinal hernia. Most inguinal hernias happen in boys.
As an unborn baby develops during pregnancy, there is a small opening in the abdominal muscles. After birth, this opening closes. But sometimes, these muscles don't fully close. A small opening is left. A loop of intestine can then move into the opening between the belly muscles. This causes an umbilical hernia.
Hernias happen more often in children who have 1 or more of the following risk factors:
Inguinal hernias happen
Umbilical hernias happen
Hernias often happen in newborns. But you may not notice a hernia for a few weeks or months after birth.
In both cases, the swelling may be easier to see when your baby cries, coughs, or strains to have a bowel movement. It may get smaller or go away when your baby relaxes. If your child's healthcare provider pushes gently on this lump when the child is calm and lying down, it will often get smaller. Or it may go back into the belly.
In some cases, the hernia can't be pushed back into the belly. Then the loop of intestine may be stuck in the weak spot of abdominal muscle. When this happens, symptoms may include:
If the stuck intestine is not treated, blood supply may be blocked to part of the intestine. This is a medical emergency.
Hernia symptoms may seem like other health problems. Always talk with your child's healthcare provider for a diagnosis.
Treatment will depend on your child's symptoms, age, and general health. It will also depend on how severe the condition is.
Surgery is needed to treat an inguinal hernia. In many cases surgery is done soon after the hernia is found. That's because the intestine can become stuck in the inguinal canal. When this happens, the blood supply to the intestine can be cut off. The intestine can be damaged.
During hernia surgery, your child will be given anesthesia. A small cut or incision is made in the area of the hernia. The loop of intestine is put back into the abdomen. The muscles are then stitched together. Sometimes, a piece of mesh material is used. This helps strengthen the area where the muscles are repaired.
Children who have surgery for an inguinal hernia can often go home the same day.
In many cases, an umbilical hernia closes on its own by the time a child is 1 year old. Almost all umbilical hernias close without surgery by the time a child is 5 years old. Because of this, there are different opinions about when surgery is needed for an umbilical hernia.
In most cases, your child's healthcare provider may suggest surgery if the umbilical hernia:
Always contact your child's healthcare provider to see what is best for your child.
During surgery for an umbilical hernia, your child will be given anesthesia. A small cut or incision is made in the belly button. The loop of intestine is put back into the abdomen. The muscles are then stitched together. Sometimes a piece of mesh material is used. This helps strengthen the area where the muscles are repaired.
Children who have surgery for an umbilical hernia may be able to go home the same day.
Contact your child's healthcare provider right away if your child's hernia:
If you see swelling near your child's belly button or in the groin area, have your child checked by his or her healthcare provider.
Tips to help you get the most from a visit to your child's healthcare provider:


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Running back Daniel Thomas is suffering from a concussion and while he had been cleared for physical activity by Wednesday, he was not cleared for contact thus had to sit out practice.
As part of the NFL's concussion guidelines, Thomas must undergo and pass a baseline test clearing him to return to practice and game action. He must get the clearance from an independent neurologist so it's not really the Dolphins' or Thomas' call when he will return.
[Update: Thomas is not practicing on Thursday.]
And that means that, suddenly, Reggie Bush might get more of a load on Sunday against the Oakland Raiders and rookie Lamar Miller might get his NFL debut.
Bush getting work is not an issue. He's in great shape. He's been holding up very well during his time with the Dolphins the past 18 months -- that contrary to a previous reputation for getting hurt.
Miller is another story.
For him it's not so much being ready to carry the football. He's ready for that. For the rookie the concern is whether he's ready to do good work in blitz protection on passing plays.
"I think one of the hardest things, I think the transition from college to the NFL is pass protection because those guys they don't just run at you anymore," Bush said. "They're moving around. They're giving you different looks, different blitzes, different schemes and then, on top of that, you get some of these linebackers and safeties who just, they're not just coming right at you any more, they're moving around. I think that is the biggest transition, but Lamar's done a great job this year, so I don't think we'll be worried about him too much."
Miller has shown no obvious pass protection deficiencies in the practice time the media is able to watch. But privately, coaches are hoping he isn't pressed into a situation where Oakland -- this week's opponent -- decides his entrance into the game becomes a signal to come after Ryan Tannehill.


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Guadalupe Bass Fish Story
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Yesterday I was practicing casting with my new line and rod just to get a little time on the Guadalupe in NB. I didn't catch anything, but I was playing with my new rod more than seriously casting to fish. On my way out I almost trip on some fishing line left in the river. I go to pull it up and along with the branch attached to the line is a nice 12" Guadalupe Bass. Still alive, I don't know how long he'd been hooked on that line, but I freed him and he swam away just fine. I was going to take a photo, but I figured he'd been left on the hook for long enough. Anyway, I guess it's always a good idea to clean up line left in the water when you come accross it. You never know what you may find at the end of it.
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Glad you did what you did! You got a double bonus--cleaned up a bit and released a fish. Thanks!
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