Sheehy-Skeffington, J.

Number of items: 28.
Article
  • Merrell, Wilson N., Fan, Lei, Sheehy-Skeffington, Jennifer, Thomsen, Lotte (2025). Resource possession in the mind's eye: ideological convergence and divergence in the perceptions of poor people. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672251371787
  • Ho, Arnold K., Kteily, Nour S., Sheehy-Skeffington, Jennifer, Thomsen, Lotte (2025). Social dominance orientation: the motivational basis of intergroup inequality. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 72, 125 - 208. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.aesp.2025.04.003 picture_as_pdf
  • Kachanoff, Frank Jake, Sheehy-Skeffington, Jennifer, Ho, Arnold, Richeson, Jennifer, Kteily, Nour (2025). Beliefs about what disadvantaged groups would do with power shape advantaged groups' (un)willingness to relinquish it. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 128(5), 1103 - 1141. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspi0000493 picture_as_pdf
  • Buzan, Julia, Sheehy-Skeffington, Jennifer (2024). Barriers in the transition from school to work: how student financial adversity predicts deprioritizing jobs with the best long-term career progression. Journal of Social Issues, 80(4), 1460 - 1483. https://doi.org/10.1111/josi.12658 picture_as_pdf
  • Sheehy-Skeffington, Jennifer, Covarrubias, Rebecca G., Croizet, Jean-Claude, Goudeau, Sebastien (2024). Society in the classroom: introduction to the special issue. Journal of Social Issues, 80(4), 1211 - 1217. https://doi.org/10.1111/josi.12659 picture_as_pdf
  • Kleppesto, Thomas Haarklau, Czajkowski, Nikolai Olavi, Sheehy-Skeffington, Jennifer, Vassend, Olav, Roysamb, Espen, Eftedal, Nikolai Haahjem, Kunst, Jonas R., Ystrom, Eivind, Thomsen, Lotte (2024). The genetic underpinnings of right-wing authoritarianism and social dominance orientation explain political attitudes beyond Big Five personality. Journal of Personality, 92(6), 1744 - 1758. https://doi.org/10.1111/jopy.12921 picture_as_pdf
  • Kleppesto, TH, Czajkowski, NO, Vassend, O, Roysamb, E, Eftedal, NH, Sheehy-Skeffington, Jennifer, Ystrom, E, Kunst, JR, Thomsen, L (2024). Attachment and political personality are heritable and distinct systems, and both share genetics with interpersonal trust and altruism. Behavior Genetics, 54(4), 321-332. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10519-024-10185-y picture_as_pdf
  • Sheehy-Skeffington, Jennifer (2023). Towards an evolutionarily informed psychology of solidarity: a reply to ‘The challenges of encouraging refugee assistance: lessons learned from reframing the problem as one of within-group collective action and norm change’ by Faiza El-Higzi and Cristina Moya. Global Discourse, 13(3-4), 389 - 398. https://doi.org/10.1332/20437897Y2023D000000017
  • Baron, Denise, Lauderdale, Benjamin E., Sheehy-Skeffington, Jennifer (2023). A leader who sees the world as I do: voters prefer candidates whose statements reveal matching social psychological attitudes. Political Psychology, 44(4), 893-916. https://doi.org/10.1111/pops.12891 picture_as_pdf
  • Sheehy-Skeffington, Jennifer, Thomsen, Lotte (2023). Ideology as a moral-relational language. Psychological Inquiry, 34(1), 35-42. https://doi.org/10.1080/1047840X.2023.2192649
  • Sheehy-Skeffington, Jennifer, Kteily, Nour S., Ho, Arnold K., Thomsen, Lotte (2022). James H. (Jim) Sidanius (1945-2021). American Psychologist, 77(7), 868 - 869. https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0001033
  • Eftedal, Nikolai Haahjem, Kleppestø, Thomas Haarklau, Czajkowski, Nikolai Olavi, Sheehy-Skeffington, Jennifer, Røysamb, Espen, Vassend, Olav, Ystrom, Eivind, Thomsen, Lotte (2022). Justice sensitivity is undergirded by separate heritable motivations to be morally principled and opportunistic. Scientific Reports, 12(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-09253-2 picture_as_pdf
  • Sheehy-Skeffington, Jennifer (2021). Taking context seriously. Psychologist, 34(7), 50-53.
  • Waldfogel, Hannah B., Sheehy-skeffington, Jennifer, Hauser, Oliver P., Ho, Arnold K., Kteily, Nour S. (2021). Ideology selectively shapes attention to inequality. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 118(14). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2023985118 picture_as_pdf
  • Obradović, Sandra, Power, Séamus A., Sheehy-Skeffington, Jennifer (2020). Understanding the psychological appeal of populism. Current Opinion in Psychology, 35, 125 - 131. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2020.06.009 picture_as_pdf
  • Sheehy-Skeffington, Jennifer (2020). The effects of low socioeconomic status on decision-making processes: power, status and hierarchy. Current Opinion in Psychology, 33, 183-188. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2019.07.043 picture_as_pdf
  • Obradović, Sandra, Sheehy-Skeffington, Jennifer (2020). Power, identity, and belonging: a mixed-methods study of the processes shaping perceptions of EU integration in a prospective member state. European Journal of Social Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2691 picture_as_pdf
  • Sheehy-Skeffington, Jennifer, Thomsen, Lotte (2020). Egalitarianism: psychological and socio-ecological foundations. Current Opinion in Psychology, 32, 146 - 152. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2019.08.014 picture_as_pdf
  • Kleppestø, Thomas Haarklau, Czajkowski, Nikolai Olavi, Vassend, Olav, Røysamb, Espen, Eftedal, Nikolai Haahjem, Sheehy-Skeffington, Jennifer, Kunst, Jonas R., Thomsen, Lotte (2019). Correlations between social dominance orientation and political attitudes reflect common genetic underpinnings. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 116(36), 17741 - 17746. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1818711116 picture_as_pdf
  • Price, Michael E., Sheehy-Skeffington, Jennifer, Sidnaius, James, Pound, Nicholas (2017). Is sociopolitical egalitarianism related to bodily and facial formidability in men? Evolution and Human Behavior, 38(5), 626-634. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2017.04.001
  • Kteily, Nour S., Sheehy-Skeffington, Jennifer, Ho, Arnold K. (2017). Hierarchy in the eye of the beholder: (anti-)egalitarianism shapes perceived levels of social inequality. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 112(1), 136 - 159. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000097
  • Bratt, C., Sidanius, J., Sheehy-Skeffington, J. (2016). Shaping the development of prejudice: latent growth modeling of the influence of social dominance orientation on outgroup affect in youth. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 42(12), 1617 - 1634. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167216666267
  • Ho, A.K., Sidanius, J., Kteily, N., Sheehy-Skeffington, Jennifer, Pratto, F., Henkel, K.E., Foels, R., Stewart, A.L. (2015). The nature of social dominance orientation: theorizing and measuring preferences for intergroup inequality using the new SDO₇ scale. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 109(6), 1003 - 1028. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspi0000033 picture_as_pdf
  • Kteily, Nour S., Cotterill, Sarah, Sidanius, Jim, Sheehy-Skeffington, Jennifer, Bergh, Robin (2014). “Not one of us”: predictors and consequences of denying ingroup characteristics to ambiguous targets. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 40(10), 1231-1247. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167214539708 picture_as_pdf
    • Chapter
  • Sheehy-Skeffington, Jennifer (2019). Inequality from the bottom up: toward a "psychological shift" model of decision-making under socioeconomic threat. In The Social Psychology of Inequality (pp. 213-231). Springer International (Firm). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28856-3_14 picture_as_pdf
  • Baron, Denise, Sheehy-Skeffington, Jennifer, Kteily, Nour (2018). Ideology and perceptions of inequality. In Rutjens, Bastiaan, Brandt, Mark (Eds.), Belief Systems and the Perception of Reality (pp. 47-62). Taylor and Francis Inc.. description
    • Working paper
  • Sheehy-Skeffington, Jennifer, Cano, Iván, Henry, PJ, Karabchuk, Tatiana (2024). Global identity in an uncertain world: a longitudinal study of the development of cosmopolitan social attitudes at an elite international university setting in the Middle East. (LSE Middle East Centre Paper Series 93). LSE Middle East Centre. picture_as_pdf
    • Blog post
  • Sheehy-Skeffington, Jennifer (15 January 2025) The rise of the anti-establishment right highlights the power of ideology over identity. LSE Inequalities. picture_as_pdf