Vargas Salfate, S., Spielmann, J., & Briley, D.A. (2024). Supporting the Status Quo is Weakly Associated With Subjective Wellbeing: A Comparison of The Palliative Function of Ideology Across Social Status Groups Using a Meta-analytic Approach. Psychological Bulletin, 150(11), 1318-1346. https://doi.org/10.1037/bul0000446. [PDF] [OSF]
Vargas Salfate, S. & Stern, C. (2024). Is Contact Among Social Class Groups Associated with Legitimation of Inequality? An Examination across 28 Countries. British Journal of Social Psychology, 63(2), 572-590. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12692. [PDF] [OSF]
Li, M., Adra, A., Yuen, S., Vargas Salfate, S., Chan, K. M., & Baumert, A. (2024). Understanding Non-normative Civil Resistance Under Repression: Evidence from Hong Kong and Chile. Political Psychology, 45(3), 493-515. https://doi.org/10.1111/pops.12933. [PDF] [OSF]
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]
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.
Paez, D., Delfino, G., Vargas Salfate, S., Liu, J. H., Gil de Zuñiga, H., Khan, S., Garaigordobil, M. (2020). A longitudinal study of the effects of internet use on subjective well-being. Media Psychology, 23(5), 676-716. https://doi.org/10.1080/15213269.2019.1624177. [PDF]
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]
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]