Publications

Preprints

Vargas Salfate, S., Spielmann, J., & Briley, D.A. Do Ideologies Supporting the Status quo Have a Palliative Function? A Comparison Across Social Status Groups Using a Meta-Analytic Approach. https://https://osf.io/preprints/osf/8syt3. [PDF]

Articles in press

Vargas Salfate, S. & Stern, C. (in press). Is Contact Among Social Class Groups Associated with Legitimation of Inequality? An Examination across 28 Countries. British Journal of Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12692. [PDF] [OSF]

Li, M., Adra, A., Yuen, S., Vargas Salfate, S., Chan, K. M., & Baumert, A. (in press). Understanding Non-normative Civil Resistance Under Repression: Evidence from Hong Kong and Chile. Political Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1111/pops.12933. [PDF] [OSF]

2023

Vargas Salfate, S., Khan, S., Liu, J. H., & Gil de Zuñiga, H. (2023). A Longitudinal Test of the Conservative-Liberal Wellbeing Gap. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 49(10), 1439-1453. https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672221096587. [PDF] [OSF]

Rivera Pichardo, E., Vargas Salfate, S., & Knowles, E. (2023). The Psychology of Colonial ideologies: Decoupling Pro-Egalitarian and Neo-Colonial Sources of Support for Puerto Rico Statehood. British Journal of Social Psychology, 62(2) 743-767. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12591. [PDF] [OSF]

2022

Rivera Pichardo, E., Vargas Salfate, S., & Jost, J. T. (2022). Political Psychology in the Global South: Collective Memory, Intergroup Relations, Ideology, and Political Participation. In D. Osborne & C. G. Sibley (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Political Psychology.

2020

Vargas Salfate, S., Paez, D., Oriol, X., Gondim, S., da Costa, S., & Techio, E. Nationalistic collective rituals, intergroup relations, and legitimation of national social systems. (2020) International Review of Social Psychology, 33(1). https://doi.org/10.5334/irsp.291. [PDF]

Vargas Salfate, S., Liu, J. H., & Gil de Zuñiga, H. (2020). Right-wing authoritarianism and national identification: The role of democratic context. International Journal of Public Opinion Research, 32(2), 318-331. https://doi.org/10.1093/ijpor/edz026. [PDF]

Vargas Salfate, S. & Miranda, R. (2020). Nationalism, patriotism, and legitimation of the national social systems. Revista de Psicología – Perú, 38(2), 423-450. https://doi.org/10.18800/psico.202002.003. [PDF]

2019

Vargas Salfate, S. (2019). The role of personal control in the palliative function of system justification among indigenous and non-indigenous students. Revista de Psicología Social / International Journal of Social Psychology, 34(1), 168-201. https://doi.org/10.1080/02134748.2018.1537650. [PDF]

2018

Vargas Salfate, S., Páez, D., Liu, J. H., Pratto, F., & Gil de Zúñiga, H. (2018). A comparison of social dominance theory and system justification: The role of social status in 19 Nations. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 44(7), 1060-1076. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167218757455. [PDF]

Vargas Salfate, S., Paez, D., Khan, S., Liu, J. H., & Gil de Zuñiga, H. (2018). System justification enhances well-being: A longitudinal analysis of the palliative function of system justification in 18 countries. British Journal of Social Psychology, 57(3), 567-590. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12254. [PDF]

2017

Vargas Salfate, S. (2017). The palliative function of hostile sexism among high and low-status Chilean students. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, 1733. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01733. [PDF]

Mendiburo, A., Vargas Salfate, S., & Rubio, A. (2017). Exposure to political disparagement humor and its impact on trust in politicians: How long does it last? Frontiers in Psychology, 8, 2236. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.02236. [PDF]