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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
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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 parliament93
Bearing the burden of peace: Intergroup attribution bias and public support for peace provisions76
Fact‐checking election‐campaign misinformation: Impacts on noncommitted voters' feelings and behavior62
Ostracism as a threat to modern democracies: Evidence from 11 European countries46
The impact of situational context and dispositions on costly signals of reassurance: Experimental evidence from Taiwan43
Politicization of a Pathogen: A Prospective Longitudinal Study of COVID‐19 Responses in a Nationally Representative U.S. Sample38
Moral framing and referendum politics: Navigating the empathy battlefield38
Trust in action: Cooperation, information, and social policy preferences33
The Role of Personal Centrality of Ingroup Victimhood in Intergroup Relations and Political Agenda in Northern Ireland32
The Role of Race in Political Attitudes Among the Religiously Unaffiliated31
The Making of Radical‐Right Voters: Persuasion and Contrast Effects in a Dynamic Political Context29
Collective candidacies and mandates in Brazil: Recasting democratic mediation29
Populism and Layers of Social Belonging: Support of Populist Parties in Europe29
Not in the mood for party: Symptoms of depression reduce the weight of partisanship on vote choice28
Hot Populism? Affective Responses to Antiestablishment Rhetoric26
Political intolerance in comprehensive welfare states: Evidence from Sweden26
Examining the correspondence between political ideology and gun policy attitudes among Black and White people in the United States25
Economic Distress and Populism: Examining the Role of Identity Threat and Feelings of Social Exclusion25
Determinants of belief in conspiracy theories about the war in Ukraine among youth23
Urban Colombian youths' perspectives on the armed conflict and possibilities for ways forward22
“Trading places”: Do individual status changes reduce misattributions of poverty?22
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Motivated to Forgive? Partisan Scandals and Party Supporters21
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The network dynamics of antiprejudice norms: A field experiment testing antiprejudice interventions in real groups20
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 Conflict19
Are Newsjunkies More Likely to Vote? Intrinsic Need for Orientation and Voter Registration, Intention to Vote, and Voter Conscientiousness19
From cognitive coherence to political polarization: A data‐driven agent‐based model of belief change18
Sociopolitical consequences of COVID‐19 in the Americas, Europe, and Asia: A multilevel, multicountry investigation of risk perceptions and support for antidemocratic practices18
European identity's effect on immigration attitudes: Testing the predictions of the common Ingroup identity model versus ingroup projection model17
The Relative Importance of Self‐Focused and Society‐Focused Values in Explaining Political Attitudes in Europe15
Adult belief change: New theoretical and empirical perspectives. Special issue introduction15
A cultural theory of the culture wars15
Accounting for the association between socioeconomic status and youth political participation: A twin family study15
Female Politicians as Climate Fools: Intertextual and Multimodal Constructions of Misogyny Disguised as Humor in Political Communication14
Collective Narcissism as a Basis for Nationalism14
Psychological dispositions and political attitudes in a hyperpartisan context13
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
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Are rules made to be broken? Conspiracy exposure promotes aggressive behavior12
Love him for the enemies he has made: Signaling by inflammatory pro‐gun rhetoric12
Personality and the Policy Positions of Politicians12
Does Analytic Thinking Insulate Against Pro‐Kremlin Disinformation? Evidence From Ukraine12
The different sides of the housing crisis in Portugal: A contribution to building inclusive, fair, and effective solutions12
Who is building peace? A latent class analysis of youth peacebuilders in a conflict‐affected setting12
Strengthening national identities in Africa? Analyzing the impact of Ghana's National Service Scheme12
How does the geography of surveillance affect collective action?12
Perceiving as biased but nevertheless persuaded? Effects of fact–checking news delivered by partisan media11
Asymmetry in political polarization at multiple levels of bias11
Young and informed? Adolescents' perceptions of ‘left’ and ‘right’11
The authoritarian personality model of punitiveness is inconsistent in predicting punishment preferences: A sentencing vignette study in a representative sample from six countries11
From Gaming to Hating: Extreme‐Right Ideological Indoctrination and Mobilization for Violence of Children on Online Gaming Platforms11
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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
Psychological insights on the fans' boycott of the 2022 FIFA World Cup10
Integration and urban citizenship: A social‐psychological approach to refugee integration through active constructions of place attachment to the city9
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Projection in the Face of Centrism: Voter Inferences About Candidates' Party Affiliation in Low‐Information Contexts9
From “what” and “when” to “how” and “why”: Moving the study of psychological dispositions and political preferences forward9
From bias to balance: Testing the effect of feedback on ideological bias expression. A registered report9
Neoliberalism and governmental and individual responses to the COVID‐19 pandemic: A cross‐national analysis9
The psychology of political attitudinal volatility8
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Overestimating Reported Prejudice Causes Democrats to Believe Disadvantaged Groups Are Less Electable8
Fear and Loathing of Wall Street: Political Liberalism, Uncertainty, and Threat Management in a Dangerous Economic World8
It seems tense: The influence of loneliness on perceived social conflict and societal threats8
Intellectual Humility and Political Polarization: An Exploration of Social Networks, Attitudes, and Affect8
What Are You Afraid of? Authoritarianism, Terrorism, and Threat8
Voting at 16? 16–17‐Year‐Old Germans Vote as Correctly as Adults8
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Appeals to Consensus and Partisan Politics in Parliamentary Discourse on the Pandemic7
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
Moralizing the COVID ‐19 Pandemic: Self‐Interest Predicts Moral Condemnation of Other's Compliance7
How many words? Precision‐based sample sizes for assessment at‐a‐distance7
“I trust you, but I'm scared!” Attitudinal and emotional drivers of support for restrictive interventions during crises7
The Religious Communication Approach and Political Behavior7
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Critical citizens and discontented citizens: Education, perceptions of fairness, and support for anti‐COVID measures in China7
False consensus beliefs and populist attitudes7
In the shadow of September 11: The roots and ramifications of anti‐Muslim attitudes in the United States7
Distrustful Complacency and the COVID‐19 Vaccine: How Concern and Political Trust Interact to Affect Vaccine Hesitancy7
Social justice orientations: Exploring their impact on poverty attributions and support for social protection7
Puncturing the Knowledge Illusion Does Not Reduce Policy and Political Extremism: Evidence From a Replication and Extension6
Emotion (dys)regulation and national narcissism6
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
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Legitimizing inclusion: Psychological interventions increase support for minority inclusion in the political game, but less so during wartime6
Social contact and ethnic identity: Experimental evidence from West Africa6
Debunking misinformation on critical race theory6
(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
Gender and Attitudes Towards a Peace Agreement in Situations of Intractable Conflict: The Case of the Jewish‐Israeli Society6
MOBILISE: A Higher‐Order Integration of Collective Action Research to Address Global Challenges5
The politics of pooling risk: People want to help the vulnerable by involving the government in healthcare5
The Interplay Between Explicit and Implicit Right‐Wing Populism in Germany and Switzerland5
Compensating personal climate response inefficacy with political conservatism?5
How people update their beliefs about climate change: An experimental investigation of the optimistic update bias and how to reduce it5
Extraversion Probably Does Not Cause Political Participation. Evidence from Two Genetically Informed Designs5
Weapons of mass division: Sputnik Latvia's Russophobia narratives and testing the rejection‐identification model in Russian speakers in Latvia5
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“Put a Little Love in Your Heart”: Acceptance of Paternalistic and Ally Political Discourses Both Predict Pro‐Roma Solidarity Intentions Through Moral Inclusion5
Guilt, shame, and antiwar action in an authoritarian country at war5
Political Ideology in Early Childhood: Making the Case for Studying Young Children in Political Psychology5
Make It Great Again: The Relationship Between Populist Attitudes and Nostalgia5
Left–right political orientations are not systematically related to conspiracism5
Class, genes, and rationality: A gene–environment interaction approach to ideology5
Why can't we be friends? Untangling conjoined polarization in America5
Coming out as Roma. Minority stress, multisystemic resilience, and identity among Roma people in Germany5
Integrating insights into radicalization: A text‐mining systematic review5
Can we keep hope alive?Review of Oded AdomiLeshem's Hope amidst conflict: Philosophical and psychological explorations (Oxford University Press, 2024) 204 pp.5
Identity fusion and support for political authoritarianism: Lessons from the U.S. insurrection of 20214
“Not as bad as I thought”: Economic attitudes and motivated reasoning in coalition governments4
Socioeconomic status self‐deception as a way to perpetuate classist societies4
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Core Values and Priming Effects in Electoral Campaigns4
Attitude change by facilitating choice: Experimentally evaluating a social identity‐based intervention to nativist populist rhetoric4
Social mobility beliefs and attitudes toward redistribution: Potential explanatory mechanisms4
The association between perceived injustice and political trust: Testing a dual‐pathway model through anger and patriotism across four countries4
Dealing with uncertainty and cognitive biases in international politics4
How Prominent Cases of Sexual Harassment Influence Public Opinion Across Countries: The Cases of Cosby, Trump, and Weinstein4
A certainty‐weighted, belief‐based model of political attitudes: A Bayesian analysis of American public attitudes toward the Affordable Care Act4
The relationship between political procedural justice and attitudes toward the political system: A meta‐analysis4
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Mass political murder: What and where is the hate?4
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Projection in Politicians' Perceptions of Public Opinion4
COVID‐19 Vaccination Acceptance: A Case of Interplay Between Political and Health Dimensions4
Introducing a novel method to support polarized citizens to sustain political dialogue4
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Looking for relief: Developing and testing the emotion‐regulation explanation of selective exposure to political information4
Ingroup Bias, Partisanship, and Gendered Voting4
Ideology shapes evaluation of history within the general population3
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Australia Day or Invasion Day? Perspectives on the Continuing Impact of Colonialism Underlies Public Contestations Around Australia's National Day3
Closing the Solidarity Gap? How Ethnic Diversity Alters Who We Are Willing to Support3
Reaching across the aisle: Committed and optimistic citizens support a non‐preferred presidency and cooperate with electoral winners3
A critical evaluation and research agenda for the study of psychological dispositions and political attitudes3
The role of change in the relationships among decent work, political cynicism and voter turnout3
Crowding at the ballot box: Germ aversion and voting methods in the 2020 U.S. general election3
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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
Migration discourses from the radical right: Mapping and testing potential for political mobilization3
Power, meta‐perceptions, and belonging: How positive recognition matters for group identification, identity compatibility, and intergroup attitudes3
Beyond bidimensional measures: Introducing a culturally tailored measure of political orientation3
All we need is love? Irreconcilable political incongruence in families after the 2019 social unrest in Hong Kong3
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Temporal comparisons shape system justification processes3
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Yesterday, all our troubles seemed so far away—(Re)conceptualizing nostalgic deprivation as a predictor for radical‐right support2
Bonding through adversity: Effects of Brexit and COVID ‐19 lockdown on identity fusion and pro‐group behavior2
Emotional Reactions toCOVID‐19 Projections and Consequences for Protective Policies and Personal Behavior2
We love, they hate: Emotions in affective polarization and how partisans may use them2
Collective post‐traumatic growth: Validating and measuring positive change in the collective self among victims of sexual violence2
You Know You're Right: How Intellectual Humility Decreases Political Hostility2
Does System Justification Promote Establishment Voting? Mainstream Politics in France, Germany, and the United Kingdom2
Culture, self, and politics: The effect of interdependent self‐construal on system justification2
Trusting others in a divided country: The determinants of social trust in South Africa2
Collective action among the extremes? Relations between political ideology, political extremism, emotions, and collective action2
Citizenship in social and political psychology: A relational and future‐oriented framework for the study of everyday citizenship practice2
Filling in the Gaps: False Memories and Partisan Bias2
Online political adverts: The effect of disclosures and opportunities for clandestine campaigning2
“I had to open my eyes”—A narrative approach to studying the process of adult belief change2
How collective punishment harm intergroup relations through ingroup homogeneity, perceived fairness, and counter‐collective action: A registered report2
All you'll feel is doom and gloom: Multiple perspectives on the associations between economic anxiety and conspiracy beliefs2
The dual impact of meritocracy and denial of gender discrimination in political candidacy2
The integration paradox: Does awareness of the extent of ethno‐racial discrimination increase reports of discrimination?2
Identifying different ‘types’ of participants in the Chilean student movement: A latent transition analysis of collective action intentions, social class and movement identification2
Dual superordinate identities in Sweden's vulnerable neighborhoods: Stronger local and national identities associated with increases in institutional and interpersonal trust2
Moral portraits: Understanding world leaders with moral foundations theory2
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Stability of National‐Identity Content: Level, Predictors, and Implications2
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Abortion Attitudes: An Overview of Demographic and Ideological Differences2
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The Dependency–Counterdependency Dynamic: Interactive Effects of System Justification and Power‐Distance Orientation on Radicalization against the Political System2
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Diversity politics: The effects of elite rhetoric and issue racialization on support for descriptive representation2
Emotional representation: Identifying the characteristics and consequences of elected officials mirroring the emotions of their constituents2
Valence of immigration news, perceived threat, and support for restrictive immigration policy: A multilevel study across 26 countries2
Hooked on a Feeling: Russia's Annexation of Crimea Through the Lens of Emotion2
Ready or not . National identity, vote choice, and mass media: Evidence from Germany2
Tune in to the prebunking network! Development and validation of six inoculation videos that prebunk manipulation tactics and logical fallacies in misinformation2
What explains elite affective polarization? Evidence from Canadian politicians2
Partisan schadenfreude and candidate cruelty2
Affective polarization within parties1
Unaffected polarization? Populism and affective polarization in comparative perspective1
Gender Gap in Parental Leave Intentions: Evidence from 37 Countries1
Political Extremism and a Generalized Propensity to Discriminate Among Values1
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How to study democratic backsliding1
Common Sense as a Political Weapon: Populism, Science Skepticism, and Global Crisis‐Solving Motivations1
The personality of a personality cult? Personality characteristics of Donald Trump's most loyal supporters1
The Intergenerational Transmission of Party Preferences in Multiparty Contexts: Examining Parental Socialization Processes in the Netherlands1
“We had a lot of fun”: Psychological rewards of white supremacy group membership1
Prosocial behavior amid violence: The deservingness heuristic and solidarity with victims1
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Down But Not Yet Out: Depression, Political Efficacy, and Voting1
Perceived threat, compassion, and public evaluations toward refugees1
Election results can decrease intergroup threat and through that positively affect intergroup relations1
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The curvilinear effects of objective and subjective socioeconomic status on economic conservatism and welfare policy support among middle‐class Americans1
Depolarization and its discontents: Experimental evidence on affective polarization and willingness to confront racism and misinformation from two online workshops1
Benevolent authority beliefs, democratic values, and public support: A comparative study of China and Japan1
Progovernment militias, identity leadership, and ethnic defection: Evidence from Israel's recruitment of the South Lebanese Army1
Ideological Contestation on Twitter Over Diversity: Constructions of Diversity as Clashing Projects1
Backlash among the dominant: Assessing support for elitism in four European countries1
Enter the matrix: Examining the psychosocial determinants of support for a technocracy of artificial intelligence1
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Support for unconditional basic income in Spain: A materialist or post‐materialist issue?1
Navigating identity dilemmas in protest: Everyday discursive strategies of engagement in the Catalan independence movement1
“Dissatisfied democrats, but democrats nonetheless?” Unraveling the democratic paradox between populism and preference for alternative political systems1
The limits of Brexit prejudice1
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A dual‐process perspective on classism. Right‐wing authoritarianism buffers the relationship between social dominance orientation and classism in Poland1
Helping Ukrainian war refugees in Poland: The emergence of a political assemblage1
The more you want to fit in, the more similar you become: How others' ideologies relate to our own intergroup attitudes1
Matthew Bowman, Christian: The Politics of a Word in America1
Lay theories of place effects1
The Many Guises of Populism and Crisis: Introduction to the Special Issue on Populism and Global Crises1
The construction of threatening Others: Discourses and agendas of the Brazilian and German radical right1
Seeing red: How gerrymandering emotionally mobilizes turnout1
Trump Voters' social position in U.S. Society: Uniqueness and radical‐right support1
Out‐party, out of luck: Partisan biases in public support for due process in corruption investigations1
What personality traits do citizens want politicians to have? Observational and experimental evidence of citizens' preferences in three countries1
National identification weakens, and territorial identification strengthens, the relationship between masculine honor values and the justification of practices of connivance with the mafia1
Intergroup political theater: Transforming social representations among peace leaders in contested territories1
“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, UK1
Parochial Altruism and Political Ideology1
Exploring the role of social openness for pro‐diversity attitudes in urban and rural places1
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“Not Racist, But…”: Beliefs About Immigration Restrictions, Collective Narcissism, and Justification of Ethnic Extremism1
John T.Jost'sLeft & Right: The Psychological Significance of a Political Distinction. New York: Oxford University Press; 20211
Different images of God predict religious nationalism among Christians1
Beliefs about collective victimization in contexts of ongoing and historical oppression: A Q methodology study among Kurds from Turkey and Northern Kurdistan in Germany1
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Religious‐based homonegativity as a function of the endorsement of traditional gender norms1
Longitudinal co‐occurrence of adolescent mental health difficulties and democratic citizenship in early adulthood1
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Responsibility for impairment shapes the perceived deservingness of welfare claimants with disabilities1
On the Misrecognition of Identity: Muslims' Everyday Experiences in Scotland1
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
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
Reducing Political Dehumanization by Pairing Facts With Personal Experiences1
Angry allies and fearful protesters: Communicating the right emotion during non‐normative non‐violent protests increases support for concessions among resistant high‐status group members1
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