| God and the government: testing a compensatory control mechanism for the support of external systems. AC Kay, D Gaucher, JL Napier, MJ Callan, K Laurin Journal of personality and social psychology 95 (1), 18, 2008 | 980 | 2008 |
| Inequality, discrimination, and the power of the status quo: Direct evidence for a motivation to see the way things are as the way they should be. AC Kay, D Gaucher, JM Peach, K Laurin, J Friesen, MP Zanna, ... Journal of personality and social psychology 97 (3), 421, 2009 | 561 | 2009 |
| Attachment and internalizing behavior in early childhood: A meta-analysis. S Madigan, L Atkinson, K Laurin, D Benoit Developmental Psychology 49 (4), 672, 2013 | 456 | 2013 |
| On the belief in God: Towards an understanding of the emotional substrates of compensatory control K Laurin, AC Kay, DA Moscovitch Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 44 (6), 1559-1562, 2008 | 250 | 2008 |
| Randomness, attributions of arousal, and belief in God AC Kay, DA Moscovitch, K Laurin Psychological Science 21 (2), 216-218, 2010 | 242 | 2010 |
| Social disadvantage and the self-regulatory function of justice beliefs. K Laurin, GM Fitzsimons, AC Kay Journal of personality and social psychology 100 (1), 149, 2011 | 215 | 2011 |
| Divergent effects of activating thoughts of God on self-regulation. K Laurin, AC Kay, GM Fitzsimons Journal of personality and social psychology 102 (1), 4, 2012 | 211 | 2012 |
| Reactance versus rationalization divergent responses to policies that constrain freedom K Laurin, AC Kay, GJ Fitzsimons Psychological Science 23 (2), 205-209, 2012 | 177 | 2012 |
| Restricted emigration, system inescapability, and defense of the status quo: System-justifying consequences of restricted exit opportunities K Laurin, S Shepherd, AC Kay Psychological Science 21 (8), 1075-1082, 2010 | 176 | 2010 |
| Outsourcing punishment to God: beliefs in divine control reduce earthly punishment K Laurin, AF Shariff, J Henrich, AC Kay Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 279 (1741), 3272-3281, 2012 | 144 | 2012 |
| Stability and the justification of social inequality K Laurin, D Gaucher, A Kay European Journal of Social Psychology 43 (4), 246-254, 2013 | 126 | 2013 |
| Response to restrictive policies: Reconciling system justification and psychological reactance K Laurin, AC Kay, D Proudfoot, GJ Fitzsimons Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 122 (2), 152-162, 2013 | 118 | 2013 |
| A functional basis for structure-seeking: Exposure to structure promotes willingness to engage in motivated action. AC Kay, K Laurin, GM Fitzsimons, MJ Landau Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 143 (2), 486, 2014 | 110 | 2014 |
| Who wants to get to the top? Class and lay theories about power P Belmi, K Laurin Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 111 (4), 505-529, 2016 | 105 | 2016 |
| Self-stereotyping as a route to system justification K Laurin, AC Kay, S Shepherd Social Cognition 29 (3), 360-375, 2011 | 103 | 2011 |
| Polarization in America: two possible futures G Heltzel, K Laurin Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences 34, 179-184, 2020 | 83 | 2020 |
| Anticipating divine protection? Reminders of god can increase nonmoral risk taking DM Kupor, K Laurin, J Levav Psychological science 26 (4), 374-384, 2015 | 83 | 2015 |
| System justification: Experimental evidence, its contextual nature, and implications for social change JP Friesen, K Laurin, S Shepherd, D Gaucher, AC Kay British Journal of Social Psychology 58 (2), 315-339, 2019 | 68 | 2019 |
| Power and the pursuit of a partner’s goals. K Laurin, GM Fitzsimons, EJ Finkel, KL Carswell, MR vanDellen, ... Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 110 (6), 840, 2016 | 68 | 2016 |
| Inaugurating Rationalization: Three Field Studies Find Increased Rationalization When Anticipated Realities Become Current K Laurin Psychological science 29 (4), 483-495, 2018 | 65 | 2018 |
Aaron C. KayDuke UniversityVerified email at duke.edu
