Peer Reviewed Journal Articles

Liaquat, U., Heilman, M.E., Godsil, R.D., & Balcetis, E. (2025). Women underrepresented or men overrepresented? Framing influences women’s affective and behavioral responses to gender gap in political leadership. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 117, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2024.104709
***Media coverage: Forbes

Liaquat, U., Balcetis, E., Jost, J.T., (2025). Multiple identities model of collective inaction: How belonging to psychologically incompatible groups reinforces the status quo. Social and Personality Psychology Compass. https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.70065

Hoffarth, M. R., Liaquat, U., & Jost, J. T. (2023). Heterosexist system justification: Identity and ideology explain variability in sexual minorities’ opposition to homophobia and support for LGBTQ+ rights. Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 11(2), 708-729. https://doi.org/10.5964/jspp.11515

Liaquat, U., & Jost. J.T. (2023) Expectations about system justification predict the ideological gap in attitudes towards immigrants. Scientific Reports, 13(1), 11309. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-38347-8

Liaquat, U., Jost, J. T. & Balcetis, E. (2023) System justification motivation as a source of backlash against equality-promoting policies—And what to do about it. Social Issues and Policy Review, 17, 131–154. https://doi.org/10.1111/sipr.12093
***Named “Top Cited Article” of 2023 by Wiley Online Library
***Media coverage: APA Monitor on Psychology

Jost, J.T., Bertin, J.A., Javeed, A., Liaquat, U., & Rivera Pichardo, E. J. (2023). Rejoinder to Rubin, Owuamalam, Spears, and Caricati (2023). Ideology is not accuracy; identity is not everything; and the Social Identity Model of Social Attitudes does not explain system justification, it presupposes it. European Review of Social Psychology, 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1080/10463283.2022.2122319

Jost, J.T., Goudarzi, S., & Liaquat, U. (2021). Tragedy and irony in the life and work of Henri Tajfel. Political Psychology, 42 (2), 339-344. https://doi.org/10.1111/pops.12712