Political Psychology

Papers
(The median citation count of Political Psychology is 1. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
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Moral framing and referendum politics: Navigating the empathy battlefield70
Trust in action: Cooperation, information, and social policy preferences65
Bearing the burden of peace: Intergroup attribution bias and public support for peace provisions61
The impact of situational context and dispositions on costly signals of reassurance: Experimental evidence from Taiwan54
The Role of Personal Centrality of Ingroup Victimhood in Intergroup Relations and Political Agenda in Northern Ireland46
Ostracism as a threat to modern democracies: Evidence from 11 European countries35
Fact‐checking election‐campaign misinformation: Impacts on noncommitted voters' feelings and behavior34
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 parliament28
Explaining Autocratic Support: The Varying Effects of Threat on Personality27
Urban Colombian youths' perspectives on the armed conflict and possibilities for ways forward27
Politicization of a Pathogen: A Prospective Longitudinal Study of COVID‐19 Responses in a Nationally Representative U.S. Sample27
The Role of Race in Political Attitudes Among the Religiously Unaffiliated27
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The Making of Radical‐Right Voters: Persuasion and Contrast Effects in a Dynamic Political Context27
Prejudice, Political Ideology, and Interest: Understanding Attitudes Toward Affirmative Action in Brazil26
Determinants of belief in conspiracy theories about the war in Ukraine among youth24
Hot Populism? Affective Responses to Antiestablishment Rhetoric23
Economic Distress and Populism: Examining the Role of Identity Threat and Feelings of Social Exclusion22
Populism and Layers of Social Belonging: Support of Populist Parties in Europe21
Collective candidacies and mandates in Brazil: Recasting democratic mediation20
Political intolerance in comprehensive welfare states: Evidence from Sweden20
Not in the mood for party: Symptoms of depression reduce the weight of partisanship on vote choice19
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Female Politicians as Climate Fools: Intertextual and Multimodal Constructions of Misogyny Disguised as Humor in Political Communication18
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 Conflict18
European identity's effect on immigration attitudes: Testing the predictions of the common Ingroup identity model versus ingroup projection model18
Accounting for the association between socioeconomic status and youth political participation: A twin family study17
Sociopolitical consequences of COVID‐19 in the Americas, Europe, and Asia: A multilevel, multicountry investigation of risk perceptions and support for antidemocratic practices16
Are Newsjunkies More Likely to Vote? Intrinsic Need for Orientation and Voter Registration, Intention to Vote, and Voter Conscientiousness16
Motivated to Forgive? Partisan Scandals and Party Supporters16
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Moral Leadership in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election16
The Relative Importance of Self‐Focused and Society‐Focused Values in Explaining Political Attitudes in Europe15
A cultural theory of the culture wars15
“Trading places”: Do individual status changes reduce misattributions of poverty?15
Collective Narcissism as a Basis for Nationalism15
The network dynamics of antiprejudice norms: A field experiment testing antiprejudice interventions in real groups15
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Pandemic Politics in the United States: COVID‐19 as a New Type of Political Emergency14
Personality and the Policy Positions of Politicians13
Which women win? How gender and context influence women's representation in the United StatesReview of the Qualification Gap: Why Women Must Be Better than Men to Win Political Office  By N13
Who is building peace? A latent class analysis of youth peacebuilders in a conflict‐affected setting13
Psychological dispositions and political attitudes in a hyperpartisan context12
Are rules made to be broken? Conspiracy exposure promotes aggressive behavior12
How does the geography of surveillance affect collective action?12
Does Analytic Thinking Insulate Against Pro‐Kremlin Disinformation? Evidence From Ukraine12
Perceiving as biased but nevertheless persuaded? Effects of fact–checking news delivered by partisan media11
Strengthening national identities in Africa? Analyzing the impact of Ghana's National Service Scheme11
Asymmetry in political polarization at multiple levels of bias11
The different sides of the housing crisis in Portugal: A contribution to building inclusive, fair, and effective solutions11
Psychological insights on the fans' boycott of the 2022 FIFA World Cup10
From Gaming to Hating: Extreme‐Right Ideological Indoctrination and Mobilization for Violence of Children on Online Gaming Platforms10
Young and informed? Adolescents' perceptions of ‘left’ and ‘right’10
The authoritarian personality model of punitiveness is inconsistent in predicting punishment preferences: A sentencing vignette study in a representative sample from six countries10
Don't Tell Me What I Don't Want to Hear! Politicization and Ideological Conflict Explain Why Citizens Have Lower Trust in Climate Scientists and Economists Than in Other Natural Scientists10
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Neoliberalism and governmental and individual responses to the COVID‐19 pandemic: A cross‐national analysis9
Toward an Integrative Perspective on Distinct Positive Emotions for Political Action: Analyzing, Comparing, Evaluating, and Synthesizing Three Theoretical Perspectives9
Integration and urban citizenship: A social‐psychological approach to refugee integration through active constructions of place attachment to the city8
Fear and Loathing of Wall Street: Political Liberalism, Uncertainty, and Threat Management in a Dangerous Economic World8
Projection in the Face of Centrism: Voter Inferences About Candidates' Party Affiliation in Low‐Information Contexts8
What Are You Afraid of? Authoritarianism, Terrorism, and Threat8
Overestimating Reported Prejudice Causes Democrats to Believe Disadvantaged Groups Are Less Electable8
Intellectual Humility and Political Polarization: An Exploration of Social Networks, Attitudes, and Affect7
From “what” and “when” to “how” and “why”: Moving the study of psychological dispositions and political preferences forward7
Social justice orientations: Exploring their impact on poverty attributions and support for social protection7
Appeals to Consensus and Partisan Politics in Parliamentary Discourse on the Pandemic7
Voting at 16? 16–17‐Year‐Old Germans Vote as Correctly as Adults7
From bias to balance: Testing the effect of feedback on ideological bias expression. A registered report7
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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”7
It seems tense: The influence of loneliness on perceived social conflict and societal threats7
Moral Polarization Predicts Support for Authoritarian and Progressive Strong Leaders via the Perceived Breakdown of Society7
In the shadow of September 11: The roots and ramifications of anti‐Muslim attitudes in the United States7
“I trust you, but I'm scared!” Attitudinal and emotional drivers of support for restrictive interventions during crises6
Distrustful Complacency and the COVID‐19 Vaccine: How Concern and Political Trust Interact to Affect Vaccine Hesitancy6
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Moralizing the COVID‐19 Pandemic: Self‐Interest Predicts Moral Condemnation of Other's Compliance, Distancing, and Vaccination6
Critical citizens and discontented citizens: Education, perceptions of fairness, and support for anti‐COVID measures in China6
The Interplay Between Explicit and Implicit Right‐Wing Populism in Germany and Switzerland6
The Religious Communication Approach and Political Behavior6
False consensus beliefs and populist attitudes6
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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
When Left Is Right and Right Is Left: The Psychological Correlates of Political Ideology in China5
Weapons of mass division: Sputnik Latvia's Russophobia narratives and testing the rejection‐identification model in Russian speakers in Latvia5
Social and Cognitive Aspects of the Vulnerability to Political Misinformation5
Class, genes, and rationality: A gene–environment interaction approach to ideology5
(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).5
Left–right political orientations are not systematically related to conspiracism5
Gender and Attitudes Towards a Peace Agreement in Situations of Intractable Conflict: The Case of the Jewish‐Israeli Society5
Puncturing the Knowledge Illusion Does Not Reduce Policy and Political Extremism: Evidence From a Replication and Extension5
“Put a Little Love in Your Heart”: Acceptance of Paternalistic and Ally Political Discourses Both Predict Pro‐Roma Solidarity Intentions Through Moral Inclusion5
Legitimizing inclusion: Psychological interventions increase support for minority inclusion in the political game, but less so during wartime5
Guilt, shame, and antiwar action in an authoritarian country at war4
MOBILISE: A Higher‐Order Integration of Collective Action Research to Address Global Challenges4
The relationship between political procedural justice and attitudes toward the political system: A meta‐analysis4
Identity fusion and support for political authoritarianism: Lessons from the U.S. insurrection of 20214
Why can't we be friends? Untangling conjoined polarization in America4
The politics of pooling risk: People want to help the vulnerable by involving the government in healthcare4
Consequences of Economic Inequality for the Social and Political Vitality of Society: A Social Identity Analysis4
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How people update their beliefs about climate change: An experimental investigation of the optimistic update bias and how to reduce it4
Can we keep hope alive?Review of Oded AdomiLeshem's Hope amidst conflict: Philosophical and psychological explorations (Oxford University Press, 2024) 204 pp.4
Social contact and ethnic identity: Experimental evidence from West Africa4
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Extraversion Probably Does Not Cause Political Participation. Evidence from Two Genetically Informed Designs4
Political Ideology in Early Childhood: Making the Case for Studying Young Children in Political Psychology4
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COVID‐19 Vaccination Acceptance: A Case of Interplay Between Political and Health Dimensions3
Social mobility beliefs and attitudes toward redistribution: Potential explanatory mechanisms3
The association between perceived injustice and political trust: Testing a dual‐pathway model through anger and patriotism across four countries3
Dealing with uncertainty and cognitive biases in international politics3
Attitude change by facilitating choice: Experimentally evaluating a social identity‐based intervention to nativist populist rhetoric3
Mass political murder: What and where is the hate?3
Coping with Cross‐Pressures: The Seamless Garment in Catholic Political Behavior3
Ideology shapes evaluation of history within the general population3
Socioeconomic status self‐deception as a way to perpetuate classist societies3
How Prominent Cases of Sexual Harassment Influence Public Opinion Across Countries: The Cases of Cosby, Trump, and Weinstein3
Core Values and Priming Effects in Electoral Campaigns3
Ingroup Bias, Partisanship, and Gendered Voting3
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Coming out as Roma. Minority stress, multisystemic resilience, and identity among Roma people in Germany3
Looking for relief: Developing and testing the emotion‐regulation explanation of selective exposure to political information3
Exploring the Context‐Sensitivity of Collective Action Motivations and the Mobilizing Role of Social Media: A Comparative Interview Study With Activists in Germany and Turkey3
Power, meta‐perceptions, and belonging: How positive recognition matters for group identification, identity compatibility, and intergroup attitudes3
All we need is love? Irreconcilable political incongruence in families after the 2019 social unrest in Hong Kong3
The role of change in the relationships among decent work, political cynicism and voter turnout3
Projection in Politicians' Perceptions of Public Opinion3
Compensating personal climate response inefficacy with political conservatism?3
Make It Great Again: The Relationship Between Populist Attitudes and Nostalgia3
“Not as bad as I thought”: Economic attitudes and motivated reasoning in coalition governments3
Australia Day or Invasion Day? Perspectives on the Continuing Impact of Colonialism Underlies Public Contestations Around Australia's National Day3
Migration discourses from the radical right: Mapping and testing potential for political mobilization2
Emotional Reactions toCOVID‐19 Projections and Consequences for Protective Policies and Personal Behavior2
Identifying different ‘types’ of participants in the Chilean student movement: A latent transition analysis of collective action intentions, social class and movement identification2
Trusting others in a divided country: The determinants of social trust in South Africa2
The dual impact of meritocracy and denial of gender discrimination in political candidacy2
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Beyond bidimensional measures: Introducing a culturally tailored measure of political orientation2
Temporal comparisons shape system justification processes2
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You Know You're Right: How Intellectual Humility Decreases Political Hostility2
Filling in the Gaps: False Memories and Partisan Bias2
All you'll feel is doom and gloom: Multiple perspectives on the associations between economic anxiety and conspiracy beliefs2
The Dependency–Counterdependency Dynamic: Interactive Effects of System Justification and Power‐Distance Orientation on Radicalization against the Political System2
We love, they hate: Emotions in affective polarization and how partisans may use them2
Youth Political Mobilization: Violence, Intimidation, and Patronage in Zimbabwe2
Crowding at the ballot box: Germ aversion and voting methods in the 2020 U.S. general election2
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A critical evaluation and research agenda for the study of psychological dispositions and political attitudes2
Partisan schadenfreude and candidate cruelty2
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Tune in to the prebunking network! Development and validation of six inoculation videos that prebunk manipulation tactics and logical fallacies in misinformation2
Abortion Attitudes: An Overview of Demographic and Ideological Differences2
The integration paradox: Does awareness of the extent of ethno‐racial discrimination increase reports of discrimination?2
Reaching across the aisle: Committed and optimistic citizens support a non‐preferred presidency and cooperate with electoral winners2
Closing the Solidarity Gap? How Ethnic Diversity Alters Who We Are Willing to Support2
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Bonding through adversity: Effects of Brexit and COVID‐19 lockdown on identity fusion and pro‐group behavior1
Facing a Common Human Fate: Relating Global Identity and Climate Change Mitigation1
Gender Gap in Parental Leave Intentions: Evidence from 37 Countries1
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Parochial Altruism and Political Ideology1
The Many Guises of Populism and Crisis: Introduction to the Special Issue on Populism and Global Crises1
Longitudinal co‐occurrence of adolescent mental health difficulties and democratic citizenship in early adulthood1
The limits of Brexit prejudice1
Does System Justification Promote Establishment Voting? Mainstream Politics in France, Germany, and the United Kingdom1
The more you want to fit in, the more similar you become: How others' ideologies relate to our own intergroup attitudes1
What personality traits do citizens want politicians to have? Observational and experimental evidence of citizens' preferences in three countries1
Culture, self, and politics: The effect of interdependent self‐construal on system justification1
The Paradox of Democracy: Free Speech, Open Media, and Perilous Persuasion. By ZacGershberg and SeanIlling. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. 2022. $20.00.1
Navigating identity dilemmas in protest: Everyday discursive strategies of engagement in the Catalan independence movement1
On the Misrecognition of Identity: Muslims' Everyday Experiences in Scotland1
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Stressed Out: The Missing Influence of Stress Arousal in Emotion's Role in Political Decision‐Making1
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Collective action among the extremes? Relations between political ideology, political extremism, emotions, and collective action1
Doom and Gloom, From Structure to Human Minds: What Makes a North Korean Nuclear Deal Difficult?1
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Valence of immigration news, perceived threat, and support for restrictive immigration policy: A multilevel study across 26 countries1
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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 Trust1
Intergroup political theater: Transforming social representations among peace leaders in contested territories1
Backlash among the dominant: Assessing support for elitism in four European countries1
Perceived threat, compassion, and public evaluations toward refugees1
National identification weakens, and territorial identification strengthens, the relationship between masculine honor values and the justification of practices of connivance with the mafia1
Reducing Political Dehumanization by Pairing Facts With Personal Experiences1
The affective nexus between refugees and terrorism: A panel study on how social media use shapes negative attitudes toward refugees1
Russia's @RT_Com Twitter campaign supporting the 2022 Ukraine invasion: A rhetorical analysis1
Common Sense as a Political Weapon: Populism, Science Skepticism, and Global Crisis‐Solving Motivations1
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Responsibility for impairment shapes the perceived deservingness of welfare claimants with disabilities1
What explains elite affective polarization? Evidence from Canadian politicians1
Election results can decrease intergroup threat and through that positively affect intergroup relations1
Moral portraits: Understanding world leaders with moral foundations theory1
Online political adverts: The effect of disclosures and opportunities for clandestine campaigning1
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Yesterday, all our troubles seemed so far away—(Re)conceptualizing nostalgic deprivation as a predictor for radical‐right support1
How collective punishment harm intergroup relations through ingroup homogeneity, perceived fairness, and counter‐collective action: A registered report1
Down But Not Yet Out: Depression, Political Efficacy, and Voting1
Ready or not. National identity, vote choice, and mass media: Evidence from Germany1
Progovernment militias, identity leadership, and ethnic defection: Evidence from Israel's recruitment of the South Lebanese Army1
Affective polarization within parties1
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Dual superordinate identities in Sweden's vulnerable neighborhoods: Stronger local and national identities associated with increases in institutional and interpersonal trust1
Depolarization and its discontents: Experimental evidence on affective polarization and willingness to confront racism and misinformation from two online workshops1
Out‐party, out of luck: Partisan biases in public support for due process in corruption investigations1
Hooked on a Feeling: Russia's Annexation of Crimea Through the Lens of Emotion1
Lay theories of place effects1
The Intergenerational Transmission of Party Preferences in Multiparty Contexts: Examining Parental Socialization Processes in the Netherlands1
Seeing red: How gerrymandering emotionally mobilizes turnout1
Prosocial behavior amid violence: The deservingness heuristic and solidarity with victims1
Matthew Bowman, Christian: The Politics of a Word in America1
John T.Jost'sLeft & Right: The Psychological Significance of a Political Distinction. New York: Oxford University Press; 20211
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Stability of National‐Identity Content: Level, Predictors, and Implications1
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