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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Trust in action: Cooperation, information, and social policy preferences	74
Bearing the burden of peace: Intergroup attribution bias and public support for peace provisions	67
The impact of situational context and dispositions on costly signals of reassurance: Experimental evidence from Taiwan	65
The Role of Personal Centrality of Ingroup Victimhood in Intergroup Relations and Political Agenda in Northern Ireland	56
Ostracism as a threat to modern democracies: Evidence from 11 European countries	37
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	35
Fact‐checking election‐campaign misinformation: Impacts on noncommitted voters' feelings and behavior	33
Moral framing and referendum politics: Navigating the empathy battlefield	31
Politicization of a Pathogen: A Prospective Longitudinal Study of COVID‐19 Responses in a Nationally Representative U.S. Sample	30
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Explaining Autocratic Support: The Varying Effects of Threat on Personality	28
The Role of Race in Political Attitudes Among the Religiously Unaffiliated	28
The Making of Radical‐Right Voters: Persuasion and Contrast Effects in a Dynamic Political Context	27
Hot Populism? Affective Responses to Antiestablishment Rhetoric	26
Economic Distress and Populism: Examining the Role of Identity Threat and Feelings of Social Exclusion	26
Determinants of belief in conspiracy theories about the war in Ukraine among youth	25
Populism and Layers of Social Belonging: Support of Populist Parties in Europe	24
Urban Colombian youths' perspectives on the armed conflict and possibilities for ways forward	22
Political intolerance in comprehensive welfare states: Evidence from Sweden	22
Collective candidacies and mandates in Brazil: Recasting democratic mediation	21
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 Conflict	20
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Not in the mood for party: Symptoms of depression reduce the weight of partisanship on vote choice	20
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The network dynamics of antiprejudice norms: A field experiment testing antiprejudice interventions in real groups	19

“Trading places”: Do individual status changes reduce misattributions of poverty?	19
Are Newsjunkies More Likely to Vote? Intrinsic Need for Orientation and Voter Registration, Intention to Vote, and Voter Conscientiousness	18
Sociopolitical consequences of COVID‐19 in the Americas, Europe, and Asia: A multilevel, multicountry investigation of risk perceptions and support for antidemocratic practices	17
Moral Leadership in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election	17
Accounting for the association between socioeconomic status and youth political participation: A twin family study	16
A cultural theory of the culture wars	16
The Relative Importance of Self‐Focused and Society‐Focused Values in Explaining Political Attitudes in Europe	16
European identity's effect on immigration attitudes: Testing the predictions of the common Ingroup identity model versus ingroup projection model	15
Female Politicians as Climate Fools: Intertextual and Multimodal Constructions of Misogyny Disguised as Humor in Political Communication	15
Motivated to Forgive? Partisan Scandals and Party Supporters	15
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Collective Narcissism as a Basis for Nationalism	14
How does the geography of surveillance affect collective action?	13
Who is building peace? A latent class analysis of youth peacebuilders in a conflict‐affected setting	13
Psychological dispositions and political attitudes in a hyperpartisan context	13
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 N	13
Pandemic Politics in the United States: COVID‐19 as a New Type of Political Emergency	13
Strengthening national identities in Africa? Analyzing the impact of Ghana's National Service Scheme	12
Are rules made to be broken? Conspiracy exposure promotes aggressive behavior	12
The different sides of the housing crisis in Portugal: A contribution to building inclusive, fair, and effective solutions	12
Young and informed? Adolescents' perceptions of ‘left’ and ‘right’	11
Does Analytic Thinking Insulate Against Pro‐Kremlin Disinformation? Evidence From Ukraine	11
Psychological insights on the fans' boycott of the 2022 FIFA World Cup	11
The authoritarian personality model of punitiveness is inconsistent in predicting punishment preferences: A sentencing vignette study in a representative sample from six countries	11
Personality and the Policy Positions of Politicians	11
Asymmetry in political polarization at multiple levels of bias	10
Perceiving as biased but nevertheless persuaded? Effects of fact–checking news delivered by partisan media	10
From Gaming to Hating: Extreme‐Right Ideological Indoctrination and Mobilization for Violence of Children on Online Gaming Platforms	10
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 Scientists	10
What Are You Afraid of? Authoritarianism, Terrorism, and Threat	9
Overestimating Reported Prejudice Causes Democrats to Believe Disadvantaged Groups Are Less Electable	9
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Integration and urban citizenship: A social‐psychological approach to refugee integration through active constructions of place attachment to the city	9
Fear and Loathing of Wall Street: Political Liberalism, Uncertainty, and Threat Management in a Dangerous Economic World	9
Projection in the Face of Centrism: Voter Inferences About Candidates' Party Affiliation in Low‐Information Contexts	9
From “what” and “when” to “how” and “why”: Moving the study of psychological dispositions and political preferences forward	9
Neoliberalism and governmental and individual responses to the COVID‐19 pandemic: A cross‐national analysis	8
It seems tense: The influence of loneliness on perceived social conflict and societal threats	8
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Intellectual Humility and Political Polarization: An Exploration of Social Networks, Attitudes, and Affect	8
Moral Polarization Predicts Support for Authoritarian and Progressive Strong Leaders via the Perceived Breakdown of Society	8
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Toward an Integrative Perspective on Distinct Positive Emotions for Political Action: Analyzing, Comparing, Evaluating, and Synthesizing Three Theoretical Perspectives	8
From bias to balance: Testing the effect of feedback on ideological bias expression. A registered report	8
Voting at 16? 16–17‐Year‐Old Germans Vote as Correctly as Adults	8
False consensus beliefs and populist attitudes	7
Social justice orientations: Exploring their impact on poverty attributions and support for social protection	7
“I trust you, but I'm scared!” Attitudinal and emotional drivers of support for restrictive interventions during crises	7
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
The Religious Communication Approach and Political Behavior	7

Moralizing the COVID‐19 Pandemic: Self‐Interest Predicts Moral Condemnation of Other's Compliance, Distancing, and Vaccination	7
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In the shadow of September 11: The roots and ramifications of anti‐Muslim attitudes in the United States	7
Distrustful Complacency and the COVID‐19 Vaccine: How Concern and Political Trust Interact to Affect Vaccine Hesitancy	6
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Gender and Attitudes Towards a Peace Agreement in Situations of Intractable Conflict: The Case of the Jewish‐Israeli Society	6
The politics of pooling risk: People want to help the vulnerable by involving the government in healthcare	6
Critical citizens and discontented citizens: Education, perceptions of fairness, and support for anti‐COVID measures in China	6
The Interplay Between Explicit and Implicit Right‐Wing Populism in Germany and Switzerland	6
Class, genes, and rationality: A gene–environment interaction approach to ideology	6
Legitimizing inclusion: Psychological interventions increase support for minority inclusion in the political game, but less so during wartime	6
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
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Appeals to Consensus and Partisan Politics in Parliamentary Discourse on the Pandemic	6
Weapons of mass division: Sputnik Latvia's Russophobia narratives and testing the rejection‐identification model in Russian speakers in Latvia	6
(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).	6
Debunking misinformation on critical race theory	5
Left–right political orientations are not systematically related to conspiracism	5
MOBILISE: A Higher‐Order Integration of Collective Action Research to Address Global Challenges	5
“Put a Little Love in Your Heart”: Acceptance of Paternalistic and Ally Political Discourses Both Predict Pro‐Roma Solidarity Intentions Through Moral Inclusion	5
Consequences of Economic Inequality for the Social and Political Vitality of Society: A Social Identity Analysis	5
Social contact and ethnic identity: Experimental evidence from West Africa	5
How people update their beliefs about climate change: An experimental investigation of the optimistic update bias and how to reduce it	4
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Coming out as Roma. Minority stress, multisystemic resilience, and identity among Roma people in Germany	4
Can we keep hope alive?Review of Oded AdomiLeshem's Hope amidst conflict: Philosophical and psychological explorations (Oxford University Press, 2024) 204 pp.	4
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Looking for relief: Developing and testing the emotion‐regulation explanation of selective exposure to political information	4
Make It Great Again: The Relationship Between Populist Attitudes and Nostalgia	4
The relationship between political procedural justice and attitudes toward the political system: A meta‐analysis	4
Why can't we be friends? Untangling conjoined polarization in America	4
Social and Cognitive Aspects of the Vulnerability to Political Misinformation	4
Extraversion Probably Does Not Cause Political Participation. Evidence from Two Genetically Informed Designs	4
Dealing with uncertainty and cognitive biases in international politics	4
Compensating personal climate response inefficacy with political conservatism?	4
Puncturing the Knowledge Illusion Does Not Reduce Policy and Political Extremism: Evidence From a Replication and Extension	4
Guilt, shame, and antiwar action in an authoritarian country at war	4
Political Ideology in Early Childhood: Making the Case for Studying Young Children in Political Psychology	4
Identity fusion and support for political authoritarianism: Lessons from the U.S. insurrection of 2021	4
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