Political Psychology

Papers
(The median citation count of Political Psychology is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
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The Religious Communication Approach and Political Behavior75
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The personality of a personality cult? Personality characteristics of Donald Trump's most loyal supporters56
Trump Voters' social position in U.S. Society: Uniqueness and radical‐right support52
Forged Examples as Disinformation: The Biasing Effects of Political Astroturfing Comments on Public Opinion Perceptions and How to Prevent Them51
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“I trust you, but I'm scared!” Attitudinal and emotional drivers of support for restrictive interventions during crises49
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In the shadow of September 11: The roots and ramifications of anti‐Muslim attitudes in the United States39
Politicization of a Pathogen: A Prospective Longitudinal Study of COVID‐19 Responses in a Nationally Representative U.S. Sample33
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Distinguishing Active and Passive Outgroup Tolerance: Understanding Its Prevalence and the Role of Moral Concern26
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Political Extremism and a Generalized Propensity to Discriminate Among Values24
Immigrants as natural supporters? Cross‐nation analysis with a multilevel mixed‐effects model24
Trust in action: Cooperation, information, and social policy preferences24
Support for unconditional basic income in Spain: A materialist or post‐materialist issue?23
Physical appearance and elections: An inequality perspective22
Moral framing and referendum politics: Navigating the empathy battlefield21
Characteristics and Consequences of Having a Political Reputation in Class21
Emotional Reactions toCOVID‐19 Projections and Consequences for Protective Policies and Personal Behavior21
The Role of Personal Centrality of Ingroup Victimhood in Intergroup Relations and Political Agenda in Northern Ireland21
An eye tracking study of gender biased information acquisition in candidate evaluation20
Appeals to Consensus and Partisan Politics in Parliamentary Discourse on the Pandemic19
It's All Under Control: Threat, Perceived Control, and Political Engagement18
The Dependency–Counterdependency Dynamic: Interactive Effects of System Justification and Power‐Distance Orientation on Radicalization against the Political System17
United We Stand, Divided We Fall: Sociopolitical Predictors of Physical Distancing and Hand Hygiene During the COVID‐19 Pandemic17
Social justice orientations: Exploring their impact on poverty attributions and support for social protection17
All you'll feel is doom and gloom: Multiple perspectives on the associations between economic anxiety and conspiracy beliefs16
The mobilizing effects of California's Proposition 47 on high incarceration communities16
The dual impact of meritocracy and denial of gender discrimination in political candidacy16
Critical citizens and discontented citizens: Education, perceptions of fairness, and support for anti‐COVID measures in China16
Positive and Negative Peace as Predictors of Pandemic Preparedness: Evidence from a Micro‐ and Macro‐Level Investigation During the Onset of the COVID‐19 Pandemic15
Moralizing the COVID‐19 Pandemic: Self‐Interest Predicts Moral Condemnation of Other's Compliance, Distancing, and Vaccination15
Different images of God predict religious nationalism among Christians14
“Dissatisfied democrats, but democrats nonetheless?” Unraveling the democratic paradox between populism and preference for alternative political systems14
A fair go? How belief in a just world shaped attitudes, intentions, and behaviors before and after the Australian referendum on a First Nations voice to parliament14
Personal Values Priorities and Support for Populism in Europe—An Analysis of Personal Motivations Underpinning Support for Populist Parties in Europe13
The integration paradox: Does awareness of the extent of ethno‐racial discrimination increase reports of discrimination?13
Why most Ukrainians feel anger, hatred, or contempt toward Russian citizens after the 2022 Russian invasion13
You Know You're Right: How Intellectual Humility Decreases Political Hostility13
A cross‐cultural test of competing hypotheses about system justification using data from 42 nations12
How to study democratic backsliding12
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Correction to “Do subtle linguistic interventions priming a social identity as a voter have outsized effects on voter turnout? Evidence from a new replication experiment”12
Ostracism as a threat to modern democracies: Evidence from 11 European countries12
Who, how, and when do children help? A systematic review of children's outgroup prosocial behavior12
“We had a lot of fun”: Psychological rewards of white supremacy group membership11
Understanding non‐normative civil resistance under repression: Evidence from Hong Kong and Chile11
Tune in to the prebunking network! Development and validation of six inoculation videos that prebunk manipulation tactics and logical fallacies in misinformation11
Fact‐checking election‐campaign misinformation: Impacts on noncommitted voters' feelings and behavior11
Bearing the burden of peace: Intergroup attribution bias and public support for peace provisions11
“Not Racist, But…”: Beliefs About Immigration Restrictions, Collective Narcissism, and Justification of Ethnic Extremism10
Abortion Attitudes: An Overview of Demographic and Ideological Differences10
The impact of situational context and dispositions on costly signals of reassurance: Experimental evidence from Taiwan10
On the Relation Between Religiosity and the Endorsement of Conspiracy Theories: The Role of Political Orientation10
Enter the matrix: Examining the psychosocial determinants of support for a technocracy of artificial intelligence9
Distrustful Complacency and the COVID‐19 Vaccine: How Concern and Political Trust Interact to Affect Vaccine Hesitancy9
Political leaders' identity leadership and civic citizenship behavior: The mediating role of trust in fellow citizens and the moderating role of economic inequality9
Social contact and ethnic identity: Experimental evidence from West Africa9
On nation, homeland, and democracy: Toward a novel three‐factor measurement model for nationalism and patriotism. Evidence from two representative studies9
Class, genes, and rationality: A gene–environment interaction approach to ideology9
Angry allies and fearful protesters: Communicating the right emotion during non‐normative non‐violent protests increases support for concessions among resistant high‐status group members9
We love, they hate: Emotions in affective polarization and how partisans may use them9
Puncturing the Knowledge Illusion Does Not Reduce Policy and Political Extremism: Evidence From a Replication and Extension8
Explaining the paradox of conspiracy theories and system‐justifying beliefs from an intergroup perspective8
Political intolerance in comprehensive welfare states: Evidence from Sweden8
Identifying different ‘types’ of participants in the Chilean student movement: A latent transition analysis of collective action intentions, social class and movement identification8
When Left Is Right and Right Is Left: The Psychological Correlates of Political Ideology in China8
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Exploring the role of social openness for pro‐diversity attitudes in urban and rural places7
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(Mis)perception, institutions, humanismReview of BlairSackett and AnnetteLareau's We Thought It Would Be Heaven: Refugees in an Unequal America (Oakland: University of California Press, 2023).7
Rationality and Risk: Experimental Evidence from Côte d'Ivoire7
Absolved from the neoliberal burden of responsibility: The effect of populist victim rhetoric on leader support7
The emotional consequences of novel political identities: Brexit and mental health in the United Kingdom6
Antidemocratic tendencies on the left, the right, and beyond: A critical review of the theory and measurement of left‐wing authoritarianism6
When conscience calls: Moral courage in times of confusion and despair By Kristen RenwickMonroe. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. 2023. $30 (pbk); $99 (hbk); $29.99 (pdf)6
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Psychological responses to jihadist terrorism: Exploring a small but significant opinion shift towards minority inclusion among French citizens in response to the Charlie Hebdo terrorist attacks6
Weapons of mass division: Sputnik Latvia's Russophobia narratives and testing the rejection‐identification model in Russian speakers in Latvia6
Moral Identity Predicts Adherence to COVID‐19 Mitigation Procedures Depending on Political Ideology: A Comparison Between the USA and New Zealand6
“Populism and Democracy.” A review of The Age of Discontent: Populism, Extremis and Conspiracy Theories in Contemporary Democracies By MathewRhodes‐Purdy, RachelNavaree and StephenUtych, Cambridge, UK6
Social and Cognitive Aspects of the Vulnerability to Political Misinformation6
Facing a Common Human Fate: Relating Global Identity and Climate Change Mitigation6
The Interplay Between Explicit and Implicit Right‐Wing Populism in Germany and Switzerland6
Taking Care of Each Other: How Can We Increase Compliance with Personal Protective Measures During the COVID‐19 Pandemic in Chile?6
Review of The Bitter End: The 2020 Campaign and the Challenge to American Democracy. By JohnSides, ChrisTausanovitch and LynnVavreck. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2022.5
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Partisan schadenfreude and candidate cruelty5
Not in the mood for party: Symptoms of depression reduce the weight of partisanship on vote choice5
Exposure to armed conflict and monitoring as predictors of aggression in a population immersed in a long‐term conflict5
Reversing the Causal Arrow: Politics' Influence on Religious Choices5
The Role of Race in Political Attitudes Among the Religiously Unaffiliated5
Morbid Polarization: Exposure to COVID‐19 and Partisan Disagreement about Pandemic Response4
Gender and Attitudes Towards a Peace Agreement in Situations of Intractable Conflict: The Case of the Jewish‐Israeli Society4
Ideological Contestation on Twitter Over Diversity: Constructions of Diversity as Clashing Projects4
Consequences of Economic Inequality for the Social and Political Vitality of Society: A Social Identity Analysis4
Filling in the Gaps: False Memories and Partisan Bias4
Economic Distress and Populism: Examining the Role of Identity Threat and Feelings of Social Exclusion4
Ideological origins of resistance against gender‐inclusive language reforms: Singular they as a de‐gendering or multi‐gendering strategy4
Being of one mind: Does alignment in physiological responses and subjective experiences shape political ideology?4
Prejudice, Political Ideology, and Interest: Understanding Attitudes Toward Affirmative Action in Brazil4
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Polarization on social media: Comparing the dynamics of interaction networks and language‐based opinion distributions4
Left–right political orientations are not systematically related to conspiracism4
The role of norms as promoters of social change3
Conspiracy Theories and Institutional Trust: Examining the Role of Uncertainty Avoidance and Active Social Media Use3
Daniel Bar‐Tal, on the Israeli‐Palestinian conflict, before and after October 7, 2023: In conversation with James Liu and Veronica Hopner3
Hot Populism? Affective Responses to Antiestablishment Rhetoric3
From protests to polls: A study on voting intentions in Lebanon3
Overcoming (vegan) burnout: Mass gatherings can provide respite and rekindle shared identity and social action efforts in moralized minority groups3
Trusting others in a divided country: The determinants of social trust in South Africa3
Determinants of belief in conspiracy theories about the war in Ukraine among youth3
Exploring the effectiveness of virtual reality in combating misinformation on climate change3
War Against COVID‐19: How Is National Identification Linked With the Adoption of Disease‐Preventive Behaviors in China and the United States?3
Populism and Layers of Social Belonging: Support of Populist Parties in Europe3
“Put a Little Love in Your Heart”: Acceptance of Paternalistic and Ally Political Discourses Both Predict Pro‐Roma Solidarity Intentions Through Moral Inclusion3
Populist Gullibility: Conspiracy Theories, News Credibility, Bullshit Receptivity, and Paranormal Belief3
The Making of Radical‐Right Voters: Persuasion and Contrast Effects in a Dynamic Political Context3
Explaining Autocratic Support: The Varying Effects of Threat on Personality3
The politics of pooling risk: People want to help the vulnerable by involving the government in healthcare3
How collective punishment harm intergroup relations through ingroup homogeneity, perceived fairness, and counter‐collective action: A registered report3
Yikes! The Effect of Incidental Disgust and Information on Public Attitudes During the COVID‐19 Pandemic3
A group that grieves together stays together: Examining the impact of Holocaust Memorial Day in Israel on affective polarization2
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Examining the Left‐Right Divide Through the Lens of a Global Crisis: Ideological Differences and Their Implications for Responses to the COVID‐19 Pandemic2
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The Quest for Uncontested Power: Presidents' Personalities and Democratic Erosion in Latin America, 1945–20122
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Human, All Too Human: Drones, Ethics, and the Psychology of Military Technologies2
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MOBILISE: A Higher‐Order Integration of Collective Action Research to Address Global Challenges2
Are Newsjunkies More Likely to Vote? Intrinsic Need for Orientation and Voter Registration, Intention to Vote, and Voter Conscientiousness2
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Moral Leadership in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election2
Status threat: The core of reactionary politics2
Wear it like armor and it can never be used to hurt you: Reappropriation, identity change, and collective action2
Urban Colombian youths' perspectives on the armed conflict and possibilities for ways forward2
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The relationship between political procedural justice and attitudes toward the political system: A meta‐analysis2
Nordic authoritarianism: Child‐rearing values and political behavior in a multiparty context2
Doom and Gloom, From Structure to Human Minds: What Makes a North Korean Nuclear Deal Difficult?2
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The Rights of Man: Libertarian Concern for Men's, But Not Women's, Reproductive Autonomy2
On the relationship between age and conspiracy beliefs1
The Political Reputation of Students in Upper Secondary School: Consequences for Their Collective Political Activities Four Years Later1
The Heaviest Drop of Blood: Black Exceptionalism Among Multiracials1
Motivated to Forgive? Partisan Scandals and Party Supporters1
Who's to blame for failed integration of immigrants? Blame attributions as an affectively polarizing force in lay discussions of immigration in Finland1
How people update their beliefs about climate change: An experimental investigation of the optimistic update bias and how to reduce it1
Collective Narcissism as a Basis for Nationalism1
Threats, Emotions, and Affective Polarization1
Identity fusion and support for political authoritarianism: Lessons from the U.S. insurrection of 20211
Online political adverts: The effect of disclosures and opportunities for clandestine campaigning1
Gender on the mind? Gender heuristics and rationalizations in candidate evaluations1
Work Is Political: Distributive Injustice as a Mediating Mechanism in the Relationship Between Job Insecurity and Political Cynicism1
Stability of National‐Identity Content: Level, Predictors, and Implications1
Feeling Politics at High School: Antecedents and Effects of Emotions in Civic Education1
Political Ideology in Early Childhood: Making the Case for Studying Young Children in Political Psychology1
A Social Identity Approach to How Elite Outgroups Are Invoked by Politicians and the Media in Nativist Populism1
Sociopolitical consequences of COVID‐19 in the Americas, Europe, and Asia: A multilevel, multicountry investigation of risk perceptions and support for antidemocratic practices1
The Impact of Including Advantaged Groups in Collective Action Against Social Inequality on Politicized Identification of Observers From Disadvantaged and Advantaged Groups1
Political Ideology Outdoes Personal Experience in Predicting Support for Gender Equality1
Norms concerning the recognition of victimhood in postconflict societies: An analysis of “whatabouteries” in online sectarian arguments1
Accounting for the association between socioeconomic status and youth political participation: A twin family study1
Ready or not. National identity, vote choice, and mass media: Evidence from Germany1
Moral portraits: Understanding world leaders with moral foundations theory1
Why can't we be friends? Untangling conjoined polarization in America1
Talking to a (Segregation) Wall: Intergroup Contact and Attitudes Toward Normalization Among Palestinians From the Occupied Territories1
Extraversion Probably Does Not Cause Political Participation. Evidence from Two Genetically Informed Designs1
When Does the Honeymoon End? Electoral Cycles of Satisfaction With Democracy in Africa1
Ethos of Conflict in the International Arena: Power Predicts Expression of Threat for Security and Hope for Peace in Speeches of Leaders of Nations in Conflict1
Does majority support for minority rights impact perceived norms and psychological well‐being? An application to the LGBTIQ+ context1
European identity's effect on immigration attitudes: Testing the predictions of the common Ingroup identity model versus ingroup projection model1
Collective action among the extremes? Relations between political ideology, political extremism, emotions, and collective action1
Guilt, shame, and antiwar action in an authoritarian country at war1
Can we keep hope alive?Review of Oded AdomiLeshem's Hope amidst conflict: Philosophical and psychological explorations (Oxford University Press, 2024) 204 pp.1
Female Politicians as Climate Fools: Intertextual and Multimodal Constructions of Misogyny Disguised as Humor in Political Communication1
“The More You Know”: Critical Historical Knowledge About Indian Residential Schools Increases Non‐Indigenous Canadians' Empathy for Indigenous Peoples0
Exposure and Aversion to Human Transmissible Diseases Predict Conservative Ideological and Partisan Preferences0
Candidate Evaluations Through the Lens of Adaptive Followership Psychology: How and Why Voters Prefer Leaders Based on Character Traits0
Do Populist Leaders Mimic the Language of Ordinary Citizens? Evidence From India0
Youth Political Mobilization: Violence, Intimidation, and Patronage in Zimbabwe0
The epicenter of conspiracy belief: The economically left‐leaning and culturally regressive spot in the political landscape0
Toward an Integrative Perspective on Distinct Positive Emotions for Political Action: Analyzing, Comparing, Evaluating, and Synthesizing Three Theoretical Perspectives0
Fear and Loathing of Wall Street: Political Liberalism, Uncertainty, and Threat Management in a Dangerous Economic World0
Conservatism in response to rising universalism? Linking individuals' conservation values, right‐wing attitudes, and nationalism to perceived prevalence of universalism among fellow citizens0
A critical evaluation and research agenda for the study of psychological dispositions and political attitudes0
Fear, Hope, and COVID‐19: Emotional Elite Rhetoric and Its Impact on the Public During the First Wave of the COVID‐19 Pandemic0
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Power, meta‐perceptions, and belonging: How positive recognition matters for group identification, identity compatibility, and intergroup attitudes0
Art in movement, art as movement: Collective action and collective gathering for intangible cultural heritage sustainability0
What does it mean to be European? How identity content shapes adolescent's views towards immigrants and support for the EU0
Intellectual Humility and Political Polarization: An Exploration of Social Networks, Attitudes, and Affect0
Integration and urban citizenship: A social‐psychological approach to refugee integration through active constructions of place attachment to the city0
Gone too far? The paradoxical effect of political elite radicalization0
Narrative premiums in policy persuasion0
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The secular voter: Secularism and political attitudes in the United States0
Building community and advancing transparency in Political Psychology's next chapter0
Common Sense as a Political Weapon: Populism, Science Skepticism, and Global Crisis‐Solving Motivations0
Moral Polarization Predicts Support for Authoritarian and Progressive Strong Leaders via the Perceived Breakdown of Society0
The Political Psychology of COVID‐190
Who Is in the Middle: Social Class, Core Values, and Identities in India0
Reducing Political Dehumanization by Pairing Facts With Personal Experiences0
“I feel I should put that work in”: Discourses of effortfulness and essentialism among post‐Brexit applicants for Irish citizenship0
The FARC in Colombia: Collective Reintegration and Social Identity Transformation0
Moral disagreements: Unearthing pathways to constructive and destructive behavioral responses0
The Paradox of Democracy: Free Speech, Open Media, and Perilous Persuasion. By ZacGershberg and SeanIlling. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. 2022. $20.00.0
Gender Gap in Parental Leave Intentions: Evidence from 37 Countries0
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Socioeconomic status self‐deception as a way to perpetuate classist societies0
A Leader Who Sees the World as I Do: Voters Prefer Candidates Whose Statements Reveal Matching Social‐Psychological Attitudes0
Ungoverning: the attack on the administrative state and the politics of chaos By RussellMuirhead, Nancy L.Rosenblum. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2024. 280 pp. $29.950
Overestimating Reported Prejudice Causes Democrats to Believe Disadvantaged Groups Are Less Electable0
Coping with Cross‐Pressures: The Seamless Garment in Catholic Political Behavior0
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What Are You Afraid of? Authoritarianism, Terrorism, and Threat0
Can corruption connect you to politics? Nepotism, anxiety, and government blame0
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Australia Day or Invasion Day? Perspectives on the Continuing Impact of Colonialism Underlies Public Contestations Around Australia's National Day0
Narratives, Ontological Security, and Unconscious Phantasy: Germany and the European Myth During the so‐called Migration Crisis0
Past and Present Intergroup Contact and Conflict Among Inhabitants of Former Mixed Villages of Cyprus: The Role of Individual and Collective Experiences in Predicting Attitudes and Trust0
Where and Why Immigrants Intend to Naturalize: The Interplay Between Acculturation Strategies and Integration Policies0
Conspiracy beliefs and democratic backsliding: Longitudinal effects of election conspiracy beliefs on criticism of democracy and support for authoritarianism during political contests0
From bias to balance: Testing the effect of feedback on ideological bias expression. A registered report0
From the People, Like the People, or For the People? Candidate Appraisal Among the French Yellow Vests0
Socialized to Safety? The Origins of Gender Difference in Personal Security Dispositions0
The political is personal: Evidence that self‐other “multiculturalism” normative misalignment affects individual wellbeing0
Responsibility for impairment shapes the perceived deservingness of welfare claimants with disabilities0
Review of Orla T.Muldoon's The Social Psychology of Trauma: Connecting the Personal and Political. Cambridge University Press, 2024. 222 pp.0
Asymmetry in political polarization at multiple levels of bias0
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A Radical Vision of Radicalism: Political Cynicism, not Incrementally Stronger Partisan Positions, Explains Political Radicalization0
Temporal comparisons shape system justification processes0
The role of change in the relationships among decent work, political cynicism and voter turnout0
Authorities impact intergroup contact intentions0
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From Gaming to Hating: Extreme‐Right Ideological Indoctrination and Mobilization for Violence of Children on Online Gaming Platforms0
Projection in the Face of Centrism: Voter Inferences About Candidates' Party Affiliation in Low‐Information Contexts0
Intergroup political theater: Transforming social representations among peace leaders in contested territories0
Political censorship feels acceptable when ideas seem harmful and false0
How Riots Spread Between Cities: Introducing the Police Pathway0
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