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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Moral framing and referendum politics: Navigating the empathy battlefield	70
Trust in action: Cooperation, information, and social policy preferences	65
Bearing the burden of peace: Intergroup attribution bias and public support for peace provisions	61
The impact of situational context and dispositions on costly signals of reassurance: Experimental evidence from Taiwan	54
The Role of Personal Centrality of Ingroup Victimhood in Intergroup Relations and Political Agenda in Northern Ireland	46
Ostracism as a threat to modern democracies: Evidence from 11 European countries	35
Fact‐checking election‐campaign misinformation: Impacts on noncommitted voters' feelings and behavior	34
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	28
Issue Information	27
The Making of Radical‐Right Voters: Persuasion and Contrast Effects in a Dynamic Political Context	27
Explaining Autocratic Support: The Varying Effects of Threat on Personality	27
Urban Colombian youths' perspectives on the armed conflict and possibilities for ways forward	27
Politicization of a Pathogen: A Prospective Longitudinal Study of COVID‐19 Responses in a Nationally Representative U.S. Sample	27
The Role of Race in Political Attitudes Among the Religiously Unaffiliated	27
Prejudice, Political Ideology, and Interest: Understanding Attitudes Toward Affirmative Action in Brazil	26
Determinants of belief in conspiracy theories about the war in Ukraine among youth	24
Hot Populism? Affective Responses to Antiestablishment Rhetoric	23
Economic Distress and Populism: Examining the Role of Identity Threat and Feelings of Social Exclusion	22
Populism and Layers of Social Belonging: Support of Populist Parties in Europe	21
Collective candidacies and mandates in Brazil: Recasting democratic mediation	20
Political intolerance in comprehensive welfare states: Evidence from Sweden	20
Issue Information	19
Not in the mood for party: Symptoms of depression reduce the weight of partisanship on vote choice	19
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	18
European identity's effect on immigration attitudes: Testing the predictions of the common Ingroup identity model versus ingroup projection model	18

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

From bias to balance: Testing the effect of feedback on ideological bias expression. A registered report	7
The Religious Communication Approach and Political Behavior	6
False consensus beliefs and populist attitudes	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
“I trust you, but I'm scared!” Attitudinal and emotional drivers of support for restrictive interventions during crises	6
Distrustful Complacency and the COVID‐19 Vaccine: How Concern and Political Trust Interact to Affect Vaccine Hesitancy	6
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Moralizing the COVID‐19 Pandemic: Self‐Interest Predicts Moral Condemnation of Other's Compliance, Distancing, and Vaccination	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
Gender and Attitudes Towards a Peace Agreement in Situations of Intractable Conflict: The Case of the Jewish‐Israeli Society	5
Puncturing the Knowledge Illusion Does Not Reduce Policy and Political Extremism: Evidence From a Replication and Extension	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
When Left Is Right and Right Is Left: The Psychological Correlates of Political Ideology in China	5
Weapons of mass division: Sputnik Latvia's Russophobia narratives and testing the rejection‐identification model in Russian speakers in Latvia	5
Social and Cognitive Aspects of the Vulnerability to Political Misinformation	5
Legitimizing inclusion: Psychological interventions increase support for minority inclusion in the political game, but less so during wartime	5
(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 conspiracism	5
Class, genes, and rationality: A gene–environment interaction approach to ideology	5
Political Ideology in Early Childhood: Making the Case for Studying Young Children in Political Psychology	4
Guilt, shame, and antiwar action in an authoritarian country at war	4
MOBILISE: A Higher‐Order Integration of Collective Action Research to Address Global Challenges	4
The relationship between political procedural justice and attitudes toward the political system: A meta‐analysis	4
Identity fusion and support for political authoritarianism: Lessons from the U.S. insurrection of 2021	4
Why can't we be friends? Untangling conjoined polarization in America	4
The politics of pooling risk: People want to help the vulnerable by involving the government in healthcare	4
Consequences of Economic Inequality for the Social and Political Vitality of Society: A Social Identity Analysis	4
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How people update their beliefs about climate change: An experimental investigation of the optimistic update bias and how to reduce it	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
Social contact and ethnic identity: Experimental evidence from West Africa	4
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Extraversion Probably Does Not Cause Political Participation. Evidence from Two Genetically Informed Designs	4