OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Political Psychology is 4. 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.)

Article	Citations
The Religious Communication Approach and Political Behavior	75
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The personality of a personality cult? Personality characteristics of Donald Trump's most loyal supporters	56
Trump Voters' social position in U.S. Society: Uniqueness and radical‐right support	52
Forged Examples as Disinformation: The Biasing Effects of Political Astroturfing Comments on Public Opinion Perceptions and How to Prevent Them	51
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“I trust you, but I'm scared!” Attitudinal and emotional drivers of support for restrictive interventions during crises	49
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In the shadow of September 11: The roots and ramifications of anti‐Muslim attitudes in the United States	39
Politicization of a Pathogen: A Prospective Longitudinal Study of COVID‐19 Responses in a Nationally Representative U.S. Sample	33
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Distinguishing Active and Passive Outgroup Tolerance: Understanding Its Prevalence and the Role of Moral Concern	26
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Trust in action: Cooperation, information, and social policy preferences	24
Political Extremism and a Generalized Propensity to Discriminate Among Values	24
Immigrants as natural supporters? Cross‐nation analysis with a multilevel mixed‐effects model	24
Support for unconditional basic income in Spain: A materialist or post‐materialist issue?	23
Physical appearance and elections: An inequality perspective	22
The Role of Personal Centrality of Ingroup Victimhood in Intergroup Relations and Political Agenda in Northern Ireland	21
Moral framing and referendum politics: Navigating the empathy battlefield	21
Characteristics and Consequences of Having a Political Reputation in Class	21
Emotional Reactions toCOVID‐19 Projections and Consequences for Protective Policies and Personal Behavior	21
An eye tracking study of gender biased information acquisition in candidate evaluation	20
Appeals to Consensus and Partisan Politics in Parliamentary Discourse on the Pandemic	19
It's All Under Control: Threat, Perceived Control, and Political Engagement	18

Social justice orientations: Exploring their impact on poverty attributions and support for social protection	17
The Dependency–Counterdependency Dynamic: Interactive Effects of System Justification and Power‐Distance Orientation on Radicalization against the Political System	17
United We Stand, Divided We Fall: Sociopolitical Predictors of Physical Distancing and Hand Hygiene During the COVID‐19 Pandemic	17
The dual impact of meritocracy and denial of gender discrimination in political candidacy	16
Critical citizens and discontented citizens: Education, perceptions of fairness, and support for anti‐COVID measures in China	16
All you'll feel is doom and gloom: Multiple perspectives on the associations between economic anxiety and conspiracy beliefs	16
The mobilizing effects of California's Proposition 47 on high incarceration communities	16
Positive and Negative Peace as Predictors of Pandemic Preparedness: Evidence from a Micro‐ and Macro‐Level Investigation During the Onset of the COVID‐19 Pandemic	15
Moralizing the COVID‐19 Pandemic: Self‐Interest Predicts Moral Condemnation of Other's Compliance, Distancing, and Vaccination	15
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 parliament	14
Different images of God predict religious nationalism among Christians	14
“Dissatisfied democrats, but democrats nonetheless?” Unraveling the democratic paradox between populism and preference for alternative political systems	14
Personal Values Priorities and Support for Populism in Europe—An Analysis of Personal Motivations Underpinning Support for Populist Parties in Europe	13
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 invasion	13
You Know You're Right: How Intellectual Humility Decreases Political Hostility	13
Who, how, and when do children help? A systematic review of children's outgroup prosocial behavior	12
A cross‐cultural test of competing hypotheses about system justification using data from 42 nations	12
How to study democratic backsliding	12
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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 countries	12
Fact‐checking election‐campaign misinformation: Impacts on noncommitted voters' feelings and behavior	11
Bearing the burden of peace: Intergroup attribution bias and public support for peace provisions	11
“We had a lot of fun”: Psychological rewards of white supremacy group membership	11
Understanding non‐normative civil resistance under repression: Evidence from Hong Kong and Chile	11
Tune in to the prebunking network! Development and validation of six inoculation videos that prebunk manipulation tactics and logical fallacies in misinformation	11
On the Relation Between Religiosity and the Endorsement of Conspiracy Theories: The Role of Political Orientation	10
“Not Racist, But…”: Beliefs About Immigration Restrictions, Collective Narcissism, and Justification of Ethnic Extremism	10
Abortion Attitudes: An Overview of Demographic and Ideological Differences	10
The impact of situational context and dispositions on costly signals of reassurance: Experimental evidence from Taiwan	10
Class, genes, and rationality: A gene–environment interaction approach to ideology	9
Angry allies and fearful protesters: Communicating the right emotion during non‐normative non‐violent protests increases support for concessions among resistant high‐status group members	9
We love, they hate: Emotions in affective polarization and how partisans may use them	9
Enter the matrix: Examining the psychosocial determinants of support for a technocracy of artificial intelligence	9
Distrustful Complacency and the COVID‐19 Vaccine: How Concern and Political Trust Interact to Affect Vaccine Hesitancy	9
Political leaders' identity leadership and civic citizenship behavior: The mediating role of trust in fellow citizens and the moderating role of economic inequality	9
Social contact and ethnic identity: Experimental evidence from West Africa	9
On nation, homeland, and democracy: Toward a novel three‐factor measurement model for nationalism and patriotism. Evidence from two representative studies	9
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Puncturing the Knowledge Illusion Does Not Reduce Policy and Political Extremism: Evidence From a Replication and Extension	8
Explaining the paradox of conspiracy theories and system‐justifying beliefs from an intergroup perspective	8
Political intolerance in comprehensive welfare states: Evidence from Sweden	8
Identifying different ‘types’ of participants in the Chilean student movement: A latent transition analysis of collective action intentions, social class and movement identification	8
When Left Is Right and Right Is Left: The Psychological Correlates of Political Ideology in China	8
Exploring the role of social openness for pro‐diversity attitudes in urban and rural places	7
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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'Ivoire	7
Absolved from the neoliberal burden of responsibility: The effect of populist victim rhetoric on leader support	7

Social and Cognitive Aspects of the Vulnerability to Political Misinformation	6
Facing a Common Human Fate: Relating Global Identity and Climate Change Mitigation	6
The Interplay Between Explicit and Implicit Right‐Wing Populism in Germany and Switzerland	6
Taking Care of Each Other: How Can We Increase Compliance with Personal Protective Measures During the COVID‐19 Pandemic in Chile?	6
The emotional consequences of novel political identities: Brexit and mental health in the United Kingdom	6
Antidemocratic tendencies on the left, the right, and beyond: A critical review of the theory and measurement of left‐wing authoritarianism	6
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 attacks	6
Weapons of mass division: Sputnik Latvia's Russophobia narratives and testing the rejection‐identification model in Russian speakers in Latvia	6
Moral Identity Predicts Adherence to COVID‐19 Mitigation Procedures Depending on Political Ideology: A Comparison Between the USA and New Zealand	6
“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, UK	6
Reversing the Causal Arrow: Politics' Influence on Religious Choices	5
The Role of Race in Political Attitudes Among the Religiously Unaffiliated	5
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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Not in the mood for party: Symptoms of depression reduce the weight of partisanship on vote choice	5
Partisan schadenfreude and candidate cruelty	5
Exposure to armed conflict and monitoring as predictors of aggression in a population immersed in a long‐term conflict	5
Prejudice, Political Ideology, and Interest: Understanding Attitudes Toward Affirmative Action in Brazil	4
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Polarization on social media: Comparing the dynamics of interaction networks and language‐based opinion distributions	4
Left–right political orientations are not systematically related to conspiracism	4
Morbid Polarization: Exposure to COVID‐19 and Partisan Disagreement about Pandemic Response	4
Gender and Attitudes Towards a Peace Agreement in Situations of Intractable Conflict: The Case of the Jewish‐Israeli Society	4
Ideological Contestation on Twitter Over Diversity: Constructions of Diversity as Clashing Projects	4
Consequences of Economic Inequality for the Social and Political Vitality of Society: A Social Identity Analysis	4
Filling in the Gaps: False Memories and Partisan Bias	4
Economic Distress and Populism: Examining the Role of Identity Threat and Feelings of Social Exclusion	4
Ideological origins of resistance against gender‐inclusive language reforms: Singular they as a de‐gendering or multi‐gendering strategy	4
Being of one mind: Does alignment in physiological responses and subjective experiences shape political ideology?	4