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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Harnessing Shared Identities to Mobilize Resilient Responses to the COVID‐19 Pandemic67
Conspiracy Theories and Institutional Trust: Examining the Role of Uncertainty Avoidance and Active Social Media Use59
Psychological Correlates of Populist Attitudes52
Investigating the Links Between Cultural Values and Belief in Conspiracy Theories: The Key Roles of Collectivism and Masculinity50
Reducing Affective Polarization: Warm Group Relations or Policy Compromise?46
Examining the Left‐Right Divide Through the Lens of a Global Crisis: Ideological Differences and Their Implications for Responses to the COVID‐19 Pandemic44
The Language of Pandemic Leaderships: Mapping Political Rhetoric During the COVID‐19 Outbreak41
Consequences of Economic Inequality for the Social and Political Vitality of Society: A Social Identity Analysis41
Populist Gullibility: Conspiracy Theories, News Credibility, Bullshit Receptivity, and Paranormal Belief38
MOBILISE: A Higher‐Order Integration of Collective Action Research to Address Global Challenges36
Abortion Attitudes: An Overview of Demographic and Ideological Differences31
Power to the People: The Hidden Link Between Support for Direct Democracy and Belief in Conspiracy Theories30
Personal and Political: Post‐Traumatic Stress Through the Lens of Social Identity, Power, and Politics30
Nationalism, Patriotism, and Support for the European Union28
The Return of Ethnocentrism25
Predictors of Political Violence Outcomes among Young People: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis24
“Everybody Needs to Do Their Part, So We Can Get This Under Control.” Reactions to the Norwegian Government Meta‐Narratives on COVID‐19 Measures24
The Political Psychology of COVID‐1924
Fear, Hope, and COVID‐19: Emotional Elite Rhetoric and Its Impact on the Public During the First Wave of the COVID‐19 Pandemic22
War Against COVID‐19: How Is National Identification Linked With the Adoption of Disease‐Preventive Behaviors in China and the United States?21
United We Stand, Divided We Fall: Sociopolitical Predictors of Physical Distancing and Hand Hygiene During the COVID‐19 Pandemic21
On the Relation Between Religiosity and the Endorsement of Conspiracy Theories: The Role of Political Orientation20
Australasian Public Awareness and Belief in Conspiracy Theories: Motivational Correlates20
Social and Cognitive Aspects of the Vulnerability to Political Misinformation20
Down But Not Yet Out: Depression, Political Efficacy, and Voting19
Moralizing the COVID‐19 Pandemic: Self‐Interest Predicts Moral Condemnation of Other's Compliance, Distancing, and Vaccination19
Moral Polarization Predicts Support for Authoritarian and Progressive Strong Leaders via the Perceived Breakdown of Society19
Facing a Common Human Fate: Relating Global Identity and Climate Change Mitigation19
Exposure and Aversion to Human Transmissible Diseases Predict Conservative Ideological and Partisan Preferences17
Growing Up as a European? Parental Socialization and the Educational Divide in Euroskepticism17
The Impact of Including Advantaged Groups in Collective Action Against Social Inequality on Politicized Identification of Observers From Disadvantaged and Advantaged Groups17
Common Sense as a Political Weapon: Populism, Science Skepticism, and Global Crisis‐Solving Motivations16
Morbid Polarization: Exposure to COVID‐19 and Partisan Disagreement about Pandemic Response16
Economic Distress and Populism: Examining the Role of Identity Threat and Feelings of Social Exclusion16
The Ideological Predictors of Moral Appeals by European Political Elites; An Exploration of the Use of Moral Rhetoric in Multiparty Systems15
When Left Is Right and Right Is Left: The Psychological Correlates of Political Ideology in China15
Female Politicians as Climate Fools: Intertextual and Multimodal Constructions of Misogyny Disguised as Humor in Political Communication14
Personal Contact with Refugees is Key to Welcoming Them: An Analysis of Politicians' and Citizens' Attitudes Towards Refugee Integration14
The Relation Between Social Identities and Outgroup Hostility Among German Immigrant‐Origin Citizens13
Taking Care of Each Other: How Can We Increase Compliance with Personal Protective Measures During the COVID‐19 Pandemic in Chile?13
Does Analytic Thinking Insulate Against Pro‐Kremlin Disinformation? Evidence From Ukraine13
Parochial Altruism and Political Ideology12
Populist Attitudes and Threat Perceptions of Global Transformations and Governance: Experimental Evidence from India and the United Kingdom12
Disavowing White Identity: How Social Disgust can Change Social Identities12
My Country, Right or Wrong: Education, Accumulated Democratic Experience, and Political Socialization of Blind Patriotism11
Make It Great Again: The Relationship Between Populist Attitudes and Nostalgia11
The Racialization of International Trade11
Authoritarians Go with the Flow: Social Norms Moderate the Link between Right‐Wing Authoritarianism and Outgroup‐Directed Attitudes11
Hot Populism? Affective Responses to Antiestablishment Rhetoric11
The Power of Political Déjà Vu: When Collective Action Becomes an Effort to Change the Future by Preventing the Return of the Past11
Collective Narcissism as a Basis for Nationalism11
Religion and Democratic Commitment: A Unifying Motivational Framework10
Political Ideology in Early Childhood: Making the Case for Studying Young Children in Political Psychology10
Do Threats Galvanize Authoritarians or Mobilize Nonauthoritarians? Experimental Tests from 19 European Societies10
“Not Racist, But…”: Beliefs About Immigration Restrictions, Collective Narcissism, and Justification of Ethnic Extremism10
Where and Why Immigrants Intend to Naturalize: The Interplay Between Acculturation Strategies and Integration Policies10
The Role of Humanitarianism in Shaping Public Attitudes Toward Refugees10
Distrustful Complacency and the COVID‐19 Vaccine: How Concern and Political Trust Interact to Affect Vaccine Hesitancy10
Youth Political Mobilization: Violence, Intimidation, and Patronage in Zimbabwe9
Projection in Politicians' Perceptions of Public Opinion9
Reducing Political Dehumanization by Pairing Facts With Personal Experiences9
On the Misrecognition of Identity: Muslims' Everyday Experiences in Scotland9
“The More You Know”: Critical Historical Knowledge About Indian Residential Schools Increases Non‐Indigenous Canadians' Empathy for Indigenous Peoples9
A Radical Vision of Radicalism: Political Cynicism, not Incrementally Stronger Partisan Positions, Explains Political Radicalization9
What It Means to (Mis)Trust: Forced Migration, Ontological (In)Security, and the Unrecognized Political Psychology of the Israeli‐Lebanese Conflict8
The Politics in White Identity: Testing a Racialized Partisan Hypothesis8
Positive and Negative Peace as Predictors of Pandemic Preparedness: Evidence from a Micro‐ and Macro‐Level Investigation During the Onset of the COVID‐19 Pandemic8
Generalized Dispositional Distrust as the Common Core of Populism and Conspiracy Mentality8
Introducing the Collective Action Recursive Empowerment (CARE) Model: HowSmall‐ScaleProtests Led toLarge‐ScaleCollective Action in Armenia's Velvet Revolution7
Gender Gap in Parental Leave Intentions: Evidence from 37 Countries7
Threats, Emotions, and Affective Polarization7
Personal Values Priorities and Support for Populism in Europe—An Analysis of Personal Motivations Underpinning Support for Populist Parties in Europe7
Socialized to Safety? The Origins of Gender Difference in Personal Security Dispositions7
Coping with Cross‐Pressures: The Seamless Garment in Catholic Political Behavior7
The Personalities of Presidents as Independent Variables7
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 attacks7
Toward an Integrative Perspective on Distinct Positive Emotions for Political Action: Analyzing, Comparing, Evaluating, and Synthesizing Three Theoretical Perspectives7
From Gaming to Hating: Extreme‐Right Ideological Indoctrination and Mobilization for Violence of Children on Online Gaming Platforms7
A Social Identity Approach to How Elite Outgroups Are Invoked by Politicians and the Media in Nativist Populism7
The Religious Communication Approach and Political Behavior7
Forged Examples as Disinformation: The Biasing Effects of Political Astroturfing Comments on Public Opinion Perceptions and How to Prevent Them6
Exploring the Context‐Sensitivity of Collective Action Motivations and the Mobilizing Role of Social Media: A Comparative Interview Study With Activists in Germany and Turkey6
The FARC in Colombia: Collective Reintegration and Social Identity Transformation6
Learning Facts About Migration: Politically Motivated Learning of Polarizing Information About Refugees6
Ethnicity or Policy? The Conditioning of Intergroup Trust in the Context of Ethnic Conflict6
Are Newsjunkies More Likely to Vote? Intrinsic Need for Orientation and Voter Registration, Intention to Vote, and Voter Conscientiousness6
Fear and Loathing of Wall Street: Political Liberalism, Uncertainty, and Threat Management in a Dangerous Economic World6
From the People, Like the People, or For the People? Candidate Appraisal Among the French Yellow Vests6
Self‐Worth and Politics: The Distinctive Roles of Self‐Esteem and Narcissism6
Does System Justification Promote Establishment Voting? Mainstream Politics in France, Germany, and the United Kingdom6
Work Is Political: Distributive Injustice as a Mediating Mechanism in the Relationship Between Job Insecurity and Political Cynicism6
Populism and Layers of Social Belonging: Support of Populist Parties in Europe6
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 Trust6
Understanding Change in Social‐Movement Participation: The Roles of Social Norms and Group Efficacy6
The COVID‐19–Social Identity–Digital Media Nexus in India: Polarization and Blame6
The Many Guises of Populism and Crisis: Introduction to the Special Issue on Populism and Global Crises6
Candidate Aggression and Gendered Voter Evaluations6
Scaling the Security Staircase5
Motives Don't Matter? Motive Attribution and Counterterrorism Policy5
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 Scientists5
Do Populist Leaders Mimic the Language of Ordinary Citizens? Evidence From India5
Trust and Involvement as Higher‐Order Factors of General Attitudes Towards Politics. Testing a Structural Model Across 26 Democracies5
Moral Identity Predicts Adherence to COVID‐19 Mitigation Procedures Depending on Political Ideology: A Comparison Between the USA and New Zealand5
How to study democratic backsliding5
How Riots Spread Between Cities: Introducing the Police Pathway5
Changing the narrative: Loneliness as a social justice issue5
Should I Stay or Should I Go? Understanding How British and Indonesian Extremists Disengage and Why They Don't5
From Social Dominance Orientation to Political Engagement: The Role of Group Status and Shared Beliefs in Politics Across Multiple Contexts5
Are there Local Differences in Support for Violent Radicalization? A Study on College Students in the Province of Quebec, Canada5
Candidate Evaluations Through the Lens of Adaptive Followership Psychology: How and Why Voters Prefer Leaders Based on Character Traits5
Australia Day or Invasion Day? Perspectives on the Continuing Impact of Colonialism Underlies Public Contestations Around Australia's National Day5
Pandemic Politics in the United States: COVID‐19 as a New Type of Political Emergency5
Early Life Adversity Is Associated With Diminished Social Trust in Adults4
Stability of National‐Identity Content: Level, Predictors, and Implications4
The Interplay Between Explicit and Implicit Right‐Wing Populism in Germany and Switzerland4
Political Extremism and a Generalized Propensity to Discriminate Among Values4
The Dynamics of Social Identity: Evidence from Deliberating Groups4
“Put a Little Love in Your Heart”: Acceptance of Paternalistic and Ally Political Discourses Both Predict Pro‐Roma Solidarity Intentions Through Moral Inclusion4
The Making of Radical‐Right Voters: Persuasion and Contrast Effects in a Dynamic Political Context4
Distinguishing Active and Passive Outgroup Tolerance: Understanding Its Prevalence and the Role of Moral Concern4
Who Is in the Middle: Social Class, Core Values, and Identities in India4
Academic Freedom Under Attack in Turkey: 2019 Presidential Address, International Society of Political Psychology4
Identifying different ‘types’ of participants in the Chilean student movement: A latent transition analysis of collective action intentions, social class and movement identification4
Explaining Autocratic Support: The Varying Effects of Threat on Personality4
Responsibility, Recognition, and Representation: The Ethical Bases of Truth Evaluation in Political Narrative Analysis3
Talking to a (Segregation) Wall: Intergroup Contact and Attitudes Toward Normalization Among Palestinians From the Occupied Territories3
Ideological Contestation on Twitter Over Diversity: Constructions of Diversity as Clashing Projects3
The Role of Personal Centrality of Ingroup Victimhood in Intergroup Relations and Political Agenda in Northern Ireland3
A Leader Who Sees the World as I Do: Voters Prefer Candidates Whose Statements Reveal Matching Social‐Psychological Attitudes3
What Are You Afraid of? Authoritarianism, Terrorism, and Threat3
Redefining the Meaning of Negative History in Times of Sociopolitical Change: A Social Creativity Approach3
Political Ideology Outdoes Personal Experience in Predicting Support for Gender Equality3
The Heaviest Drop of Blood: Black Exceptionalism Among Multiracials3
Partisan schadenfreude and candidate cruelty3
We love, they hate: Emotions in affective polarization and how partisans may use them3
Overestimating Reported Prejudice Causes Democrats to Believe Disadvantaged Groups Are Less Electable3
Intellectual Humility and Political Polarization: An Exploration of Social Networks, Attitudes, and Affect3
Institutional Prospects: Exploring Perceptions of Past Benefits and Future Risks From Supreme Court Decisions and Support for Institutional Change3
Who's to blame for failed integration of immigrants? Blame attributions as an affectively polarizing force in lay discussions of immigration in Finland3
A cultural theory of the culture wars3
Explaining the paradox of conspiracy theories and system‐justifying beliefs from an intergroup perspective3
Electing to Take Control: Political Identification and Personal Control3
Why Chile “Woke Up.” Antecedents of the Formation of Prochange Group Consciousness Promoting Collective Action3
Shaping EU Attitudes Through Identity Leadership: Investigating Pro‐EU and EU‐Skeptic Identity Narratives2
The Intergenerational Transmission of Party Preferences in Multiparty Contexts: Examining Parental Socialization Processes in the Netherlands2
Stressed Out: The Missing Influence of Stress Arousal in Emotion's Role in Political Decision‐Making2
The Rights of Man: Libertarian Concern for Men's, But Not Women's, Reproductive Autonomy2
Selecting Talented Migrants: Majority and Minority Perspectives2
Filling in the Gaps: False Memories and Partisan Bias2
It's All Under Control: Threat, Perceived Control, and Political Engagement2
Narratives, Ontological Security, and Unconscious Phantasy: Germany and the European Myth During the so‐called Migration Crisis2
Personality and the Policy Positions of Politicians2
Motivated to Forgive? Partisan Scandals and Party Supporters2
Sociopolitical consequences of COVID‐19 in the Americas, Europe, and Asia: A multilevel, multicountry investigation of risk perceptions and support for antidemocratic practices2
Gender and Attitudes Towards a Peace Agreement in Situations of Intractable Conflict: The Case of the Jewish‐Israeli Society2
On nation, homeland, and democracy: Toward a novel three‐factor measurement model for nationalism and patriotism. Evidence from two representative studies2
Understanding non‐normative civil resistance under repression: Evidence from Hong Kong and Chile2
The Most Important Election of Our Lifetime: Focalism and Political Participation2
Are rules made to be broken? Conspiracy exposure promotes aggressive behavior2
Feeling Politics at High School: Antecedents and Effects of Emotions in Civic Education2
The Quest for Uncontested Power: Presidents' Personalities and Democratic Erosion in Latin America, 1945–20122
Prejudice, Political Ideology, and Interest: Understanding Attitudes Toward Affirmative Action in Brazil2
Appeals to Consensus and Partisan Politics in Parliamentary Discourse on the Pandemic2
Politicization of a Pathogen: A Prospective Longitudinal Study of COVID‐19 Responses in a Nationally Representative U.S. Sample2
The Dependency–Counterdependency Dynamic: Interactive Effects of System Justification and Power‐Distance Orientation on Radicalization against the Political System1
A critical evaluation and research agenda for the study of psychological dispositions and political attitudes1
What's the Value of Partisan Loyalty? Partisan Ambivalence, Motivated Reasoning, and Correct Voting in U.S. Presidential Elections1
COVID‐19 Vaccination Acceptance: A Case of Interplay Between Political and Health Dimensions1
Ontological Security in Times of Global Transformations? Bureaucrats' Perceptions on Organizational Work Life and Migration1
Who is building peace? A latent class analysis of youth peacebuilders in a conflict‐affected setting1
Proximate Exposure to Conflict and the Spatiotemporal Correlates of Social Trust1
The relationship between political procedural justice and attitudes toward the political system: A meta‐analysis1
Yikes! The Effect of Incidental Disgust and Information on Public Attitudes During the COVID‐19 Pandemic1
Evaluating the Legacy and Place of Fallible, Brilliant Men1
How people update their beliefs about climate change: An experimental investigation of the optimistic update bias and how to reduce it1
Who, how, and when do children help? A systematic review of children's outgroup prosocial behavior1
When Does the Honeymoon End? Electoral Cycles of Satisfaction With Democracy in Africa1
You Know You're Right: How Intellectual Humility Decreases Political Hostility1
Integration and urban citizenship: A social‐psychological approach to refugee integration through active constructions of place attachment to the city1
Politics makes bastards of us all: Why moral judgment is politically situational1
Projection in the Face of Centrism: Voter Inferences About Candidates' Party Affiliation in Low‐Information Contexts1
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Religiosity Inside and Outside the Muslim World1
Symbolic threat from the West, belief in pro‐Kremlin conspiracy theories, and attribution of blame for the war in Ukraine: A two‐wave longitudinal study1
Ingroup Bias, Partisanship, and Gendered Voting1
Rationality and Risk: Experimental Evidence from Côte d'Ivoire1
Extraversion Probably Does Not Cause Political Participation. Evidence from Two Genetically Informed Designs1
Characteristics and Consequences of Having a Political Reputation in Class1
Human, All Too Human: Drones, Ethics, and the Psychology of Military Technologies1
The integration paradox: Does awareness of the extent of ethno‐racial discrimination increase reports of discrimination?1
In the shadow of September 11: The roots and ramifications of anti‐Muslim attitudes in the United States1
Closing the Solidarity Gap? How Ethnic Diversity Alters Who We Are Willing to Support1
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Narrative premiums in policy persuasion1
Asymmetry in political polarization at multiple levels of bias1
What explains elite affective polarization? Evidence from Canadian politicians1
Exploring Different Psychological Processes in a Media Intervention That Reduces Dehumanization Towards Muslims1
Online Hate and Zeitgeist of Fear: A Five‐Country Longitudinal Analysis of Hate Exposure and Fear of Terrorism After the Paris Terrorist Attacks in 20151
Puncturing the Knowledge Illusion Does Not Reduce Policy and Political Extremism: Evidence From a Replication and Extension1
Determinants of belief in conspiracy theories about the war in Ukraine among youth1
The Relative Importance of Self‐Focused and Society‐Focused Values in Explaining Political Attitudes in Europe1
Political leaders' identity leadership and civic citizenship behavior: The mediating role of trust in fellow citizens and the moderating role of economic inequality1
Moral Leadership in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election1
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