Journal Articles
Kleiman, T., Stern, C., & Trope, Y. (in press). When the spatial and ideological collide: Metaphorical conflict shapes social perception. Psychological Science.
Mooijman, M., & Stern, C. (in press). When perspective taking creates a motivational threat: The case of conservatism, same-sex sexual behavior, and anti-gay attitudes. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
Stern, C., Balcetis, E., Cole, S., West, T. V., & Caruso, E. (2016). Government instability shifts skin tone representations of and intentions to vote for political candidates. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 110, 76-95.
Stern, C., & Kleiman, T. (2015). Know thy outgroup: Promoting accurate judgments of political attitude differences through a conflict mindset. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 6, 950-958.
Stern, C., West, T. V, & Rule, N. O. (2015). Conservatives negatively evaluate counterstereotypical people to maintain a sense of certainty. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 112, 15337-15342.
Jost, J. T., Hawkins, C. B., Nosek, B., Hennes, E. P., Stern, C., Graham, J., & Gosling, S. (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.
Stern, C., & West, T. V. (2014). Circumventing anxiety during interpersonal encounters to promote interest in contact: An implementation intention approach. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 50, 82-93.
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.
Stern, C., West, T. V., & Schmitt, P. G. (2014). The liberal illusion of uniqueness. Psychological Science, 25, 137-144.
West, T. V., Pearson, A. R., & Stern, C. (2014). Anxiety perseverance in intergroup interaction: When incidental explanations backfire. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 107, 825-843.
Stern, C., Cole, S., Gollwitzer, P. M., Oettingen, G., & Balcetis, E. (2013). Effects of implementation intentions on anxiety, perceived proximity, and motor performance. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 39, 623-635.
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, 520-541.
Stern, C., West, T. V., & Schoenthaler, A. (2013). The dynamic relationship between accuracy and bias in social perception research. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 7, 303-314.
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.
Book Chapters and Commentaries
Jost, J. T., Gaucher, D., & Stern, C. (2015). “The world isn’t fair”: A system justification perspective on social stratification and inequality. In Dovidio, J., & Simpson, J. (Eds.). APA Handbook of Personality and Social Psychology (Volume 2, pp. 317-340). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
Jost, J. T., Stern, C., & Sterling, J. (2015). Ethos of conflict: A system justification perspective. In J. Sharvit & E. Halperin (Eds.). The Social Psychology of Intractable Conflicts: Celebrating the Legacy of Daniel Bar-Tal (Volume I, pp. 47-59). Springer Verlag.
Jost, J. T., Stern, C., & Kalkstein, D. A. (2012). What’s so insidious about “peace, love, and understanding”? A system justification perspective. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 35, 28. [Commentary]
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