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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
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The impact of situational context and dispositions on costly signals of reassurance: Experimental evidence from Taiwan72
Bearing the burden of peace: Intergroup attribution bias and public support for peace provisions63
Fact‐checking election‐campaign misinformation: Impacts on noncommitted voters' feelings and behavior47
Trust in action: Cooperation, information, and social policy preferences36
Politicization of a Pathogen: A Prospective Longitudinal Study of COVID‐19 Responses in a Nationally Representative U.S. Sample33
The Role of Personal Centrality of Ingroup Victimhood in Intergroup Relations and Political Agenda in Northern Ireland32
Ostracism as a threat to modern democracies: Evidence from 11 European countries31
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 parliament30
Moral framing and referendum politics: Navigating the empathy battlefield25
Urban Colombian youths' perspectives on the armed conflict and possibilities for ways forward24
Not in the mood for party: Symptoms of depression reduce the weight of partisanship on vote choice23
Examining the correspondence between political ideology and gun policy attitudes among Black and White people in the United States23
Political intolerance in comprehensive welfare states: Evidence from Sweden20
Collective candidacies and mandates in Brazil: Recasting democratic mediation20
More than a partisan pandemic: Worldview and COVID ‐19 response in the United States19
Determinants of belief in conspiracy theories about the war in Ukraine among youth18
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The network dynamics of antiprejudice norms: A field experiment testing antiprejudice interventions in real groups17
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The Relative Importance of Self‐Focused and Society‐Focused Values in Explaining Political Attitudes in Europe17
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European identity's effect on immigration attitudes: Testing the predictions of the common Ingroup identity model versus ingroup projection model16
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“Trading places”: Do individual status changes reduce misattributions of poverty?16
Adult belief change: New theoretical and empirical perspectives. Special issue introduction15
Implicit motives and conflict intensity: A meta‐analysis of the roles of power and affiliation15
Motivated to Forgive? Partisan Scandals and Party Supporters15
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 Conflict15
Accounting for the association between socioeconomic status and youth political participation: A twin family study15
A cultural theory of the culture wars14
Sociopolitical consequences of COVID‐19 in the Americas, Europe, and Asia: A multilevel, multicountry investigation of risk perceptions and support for antidemocratic practices14
From cognitive coherence to political polarization: A data‐driven agent‐based model of belief change14
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 N14
Political discrimination in hiring: Evidence from a large field experiment13
Psychological dispositions and political attitudes in a hyperpartisan context13
How does the geography of surveillance affect collective action?12
Love him for the enemies he has made: Signaling by inflammatory pro‐gun rhetoric12
The different sides of the housing crisis in Portugal: A contribution to building inclusive, fair, and effective solutions12
Seeing the same evidence differently: Biased assimilation and moral conviction in public evaluations of scientific expertise12
Strengthening national identities in Africa? Analyzing the impact of Ghana's National Service Scheme12
Similar moral values, different agendas: U.S. politicians' use of moral language is issue‐specific12
Who is building peace? A latent class analysis of youth peacebuilders in a conflict‐affected setting11
Do emotions drive the link between winning and satisfaction with democracy? Leveraging the Super Bowl, the World Cup, and The Lion King11
Are rules made to be broken? Conspiracy exposure promotes aggressive behavior11
Young and informed? Adolescents' perceptions of ‘left’ and ‘right’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 Scientists10
Waking up to politics: How sleep quality relates to political participation10
From Gaming to Hating: Extreme‐Right Ideological Indoctrination and Mobilization for Violence of Children on Online Gaming Platforms10
Asymmetry in political polarization at multiple levels of bias10
Psychological insights on the fans' boycott of the 2022 FIFA World Cup10
From civic roots to voting booths: Gendered pathways from adolescent motivation to electoral participation in adulthood10
Neoliberalism and governmental and individual responses to the COVID‐19 pandemic: A cross‐national analysis9
Perceiving as biased but nevertheless persuaded? Effects of fact–checking news delivered by partisan media9
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The authoritarian personality model of punitiveness is inconsistent in predicting punishment preferences: A sentencing vignette study in a representative sample from six countries9
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Generalized loss of trust following political betrayal: Cross‐country evidence in the context of elections9
Integration and urban citizenship: A social‐psychological approach to refugee integration through active constructions of place attachment to the city8
Corruption erodes people's beliefs in morality and justice8
Voting at 16? 16–17‐Year‐Old Germans Vote as Correctly as Adults8
Is sortition the ideal? Examining public reactions to climate assemblies8
Intellectual Humility and Political Polarization: An Exploration of Social Networks, Attitudes, and Affect8
A person by place approach to examining prototypes of climate change impacts and their relation to pro‐environmental attitudes and behavioral intentions8
From “what” and “when” to “how” and “why”: Moving the study of psychological dispositions and political preferences forward8
The psychology of political attitudinal volatility8
From bias to balance: Testing the effect of feedback on ideological bias expression. A registered report8
It seems tense: The influence of loneliness on perceived social conflict and societal threats8
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
Social justice orientations: Exploring their impact on poverty attributions and support for social protection7
False consensus beliefs and populist attitudes7
“I trust you, but I'm scared!” Attitudinal and emotional drivers of support for restrictive interventions during crises7
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
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Critical citizens and discontented citizens: Education, perceptions of fairness, and support for anti‐COVID measures in China7
How many words? Precision‐based sample sizes for assessment at‐a‐distance7
(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
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
The Interplay Between Explicit and Implicit Right‐Wing Populism in Germany and Switzerland6
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Weapons of mass division: Sputnik Latvia's Russophobia narratives and testing the rejection‐identification model in Russian speakers in Latvia6
“Put a Little Love in Your Heart”: Acceptance of Paternalistic and Ally Political Discourses Both Predict Pro‐Roma Solidarity Intentions Through Moral Inclusion6
Class, genes, and rationality: A gene–environment interaction approach to ideology6
Appeals to Consensus and Partisan Politics in Parliamentary Discourse on the Pandemic6
Social contact and ethnic identity: Experimental evidence from West Africa6
The politics of pooling risk: People want to help the vulnerable by involving the government in healthcare6
Group identification and contribution guilt predict political consumerism6
Emotion (dys)regulation and national narcissism6
Legitimizing inclusion: Psychological interventions increase support for minority inclusion in the political game, but less so during wartime6
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Debunking misinformation on critical race theory6
The relationship between political procedural justice and attitudes toward the political system: A meta‐analysis5
Political Ideology in Early Childhood: Making the Case for Studying Young Children in Political Psychology5
Ideological differences in moral concern reflect circle expansion, not inversion5
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Rethinking the link between cognitive reflection and susceptibility to political misinformation: Distinguishing hard from soft news5
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Integrating insights into radicalization: A text‐mining systematic review5
When virtues are weaponized: Moral superiority aggravates outgroup dehumanization5
Why can't we be friends? Untangling conjoined polarization in America5
Extraversion Probably Does Not Cause Political Participation. Evidence from Two Genetically Informed Designs5
Coming out as Roma. Minority stress, multisystemic resilience, and identity among Roma people in Germany5
Zone‐flooding, public confusion, and signal detection theory: A theoretical framework and registered report5
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 20215
Guilt, shame, and antiwar action in an authoritarian country at war5
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Puncturing the Knowledge Illusion Does Not Reduce Policy and Political Extremism: Evidence From a Replication and Extension5
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
Left–right political orientations are not systematically related to conspiracism5
Dealing with uncertainty and cognitive biases in international politics4
Values in politics: Exploring alignment between value salience in political texts, value importance in representative population samples, and political engagement4
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Attitude change by facilitating choice: Experimentally evaluating a social identity‐based intervention to nativist populist rhetoric4
Birth of a scapegoat: An actor‐affect‐affordance model of symbolic attribution in the digital age4
Ideology shapes evaluation of history within the general population4
How Prominent Cases of Sexual Harassment Influence Public Opinion Across Countries: The Cases of Cosby, Trump, and Weinstein4
“Not as bad as I thought”: Economic attitudes and motivated reasoning in coalition governments4
Introducing a novel method to support polarized citizens to sustain political dialogue4
Social mobility beliefs and attitudes toward redistribution: Potential explanatory mechanisms4
How education shapes divergent identity responses to discrimination: Experimental and observational evidence from Muslim immigrants in Germany4
A certainty‐weighted, belief‐based model of political attitudes: A Bayesian analysis of American public attitudes toward the Affordable Care Act4
COVID‐19 Vaccination Acceptance: A Case of Interplay Between Political and Health Dimensions4
Mass political murder: What and where is the hate?4
Core Values and Priming Effects in Electoral Campaigns4
Motivated causal judgments and responsibility for civilian casualties in military conflicts4
Looking for relief: Developing and testing the emotion‐regulation explanation of selective exposure to political information4
Ethnic bias from within: Catalan preferences for Catalan‐sounding names in adoption decisions4
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Projection in Politicians' Perceptions of Public Opinion4
The association between perceived injustice and political trust: Testing a dual‐pathway model through anger and patriotism across four countries4
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Investigating generalized versus case‐by‐case support for labor unions3
The affective style of politics: Evidence from cross‐country surveys3
Migration discourses from the radical right: Mapping and testing potential for political mobilization3
Rebels without a cause: Collective narcissism and political contrarianism3
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Beyond bidimensional measures: Introducing a culturally tailored measure of political orientation3
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When survival becomes politics: Necessity activism and identity work under precarity3
Power, meta‐perceptions, and belonging: How positive recognition matters for group identification, identity compatibility, and intergroup attitudes3
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A critical evaluation and research agenda for the study of psychological dispositions and political attitudes3
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Temporal comparisons shape system justification processes3
Reaching across the aisle: Committed and optimistic citizens support a non‐preferred presidency and cooperate with electoral winners3
Crowding at the ballot box: Germ aversion and voting methods in the 2020 U.S. general election3
Socioeconomic status self‐deception as a way to perpetuate classist societies3
The role of change in the relationships among decent work, political cynicism and voter turnout3
All we need is love? Irreconcilable political incongruence in families after the 2019 social unrest in Hong Kong3
Closing the Solidarity Gap? How Ethnic Diversity Alters Who We Are Willing to Support3
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You Know You're Right: How Intellectual Humility Decreases Political Hostility3
The relationship between populism and national identity: A scoping review3
Citizenship in social and political psychology: A relational and future‐oriented framework for the study of everyday citizenship practice2
The dual impact of meritocracy and denial of gender discrimination in political candidacy2
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All you'll feel is doom and gloom: Multiple perspectives on the associations between economic anxiety and conspiracy beliefs2
Online political adverts: The effect of disclosures and opportunities for clandestine campaigning2
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Valence of immigration news, perceived threat, and support for restrictive immigration policy: A multilevel study across 26 countries2
Seeing red: How gerrymandering emotionally mobilizes turnout2
Susceptibility to misinformation and propaganda during wartime: Evidence from the Israel‐Gaza war2
Culture, self, and politics: The effect of interdependent self‐construal on system justification2
Stability of National‐Identity Content: Level, Predictors, and Implications2
“I had to open my eyes”—A narrative approach to studying the process of adult belief change2
The affective nexus between refugees and terrorism: A panel study on how social media use shapes negative attitudes toward refugees2
The integration paradox: Does awareness of the extent of ethno‐racial discrimination increase reports of discrimination?2
The nation and the self: National identity, national narcissism, and social belonging across cultural contexts2
Diversity politics: The effects of elite rhetoric and issue racialization on support for descriptive representation2
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Bonding through adversity: Effects of Brexit and COVID ‐19 lockdown on identity fusion and pro‐group behavior2
Conspiracy thinking and belief in partisan conspiracy theories: A moderating effect of partisan congruence?2
Identifying different ‘types’ of participants in the Chilean student movement: A latent transition analysis of collective action intentions, social class and movement identification2
Collective post‐traumatic growth: Validating and measuring positive change in the collective self among victims of sexual violence2
Dual superordinate identities in Sweden's vulnerable neighborhoods: Stronger local and national identities associated with increases in institutional and interpersonal trust2
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Partisan schadenfreude and candidate cruelty2
Ready or not . National identity, vote choice, and mass media: Evidence from Germany2
The Dependency–Counterdependency Dynamic: Interactive Effects of System Justification and Power‐Distance Orientation on Radicalization against the Political System2
Moral portraits: Understanding world leaders with moral foundations theory2
We love, they hate: Emotions in affective polarization and how partisans may use them2
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How collective punishment harm intergroup relations through ingroup homogeneity, perceived fairness, and counter‐collective action: A registered report2
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Yesterday, all our troubles seemed so far away—(Re)conceptualizing nostalgic deprivation as a predictor for radical‐right support2
Emotional representation: Identifying the characteristics and consequences of elected officials mirroring the emotions of their constituents2
Trusting others in a divided country: The determinants of social trust in South Africa2
Hooked on a Feeling: Russia's Annexation of Crimea Through the Lens of Emotion2
Beliefs about collective victimization in contexts of ongoing and historical oppression: A Q methodology study among Kurds from Turkey and Northern Kurdistan in Germany2
Emotional Reactions toCOVID‐19 Projections and Consequences for Protective Policies and Personal Behavior2
Collective action among the extremes? Relations between political ideology, political extremism, emotions, and collective action2
Tune in to the prebunking network! Development and validation of six inoculation videos that prebunk manipulation tactics and logical fallacies in misinformation2
Out‐party, out of luck: Partisan biases in public support for due process in corruption investigations1
Support for unconditional basic income in Spain: A materialist or post‐materialist issue?1
A dual‐process perspective on classism. Right‐wing authoritarianism buffers the relationship between social dominance orientation and classism in Poland1
Fueling the fire: Anger, external political efficacy, and support for antisocial political behavior surrounding the 2024 U.S. presidential election1
The limits of Brexit prejudice1
Navigating social change and social harmony: Testing SIMCA in Gen Z collective action in Madagascar and its role in reconciliation processes1
What explains elite affective polarization? Evidence from Canadian politicians1
“We had a lot of fun”: Psychological rewards of white supremacy group membership1
The construction of threatening Others: Discourses and agendas of the Brazilian and German radical right1
Perceived threat, compassion, and public evaluations toward refugees1
The personality of a personality cult? Personality characteristics of Donald Trump's most loyal supporters1
Religious‐based homonegativity as a function of the endorsement of traditional gender norms1
“Good job reporting this!”: Examining psychological needs and community building in YouTube conspiracy narratives1
Ideological Contestation on Twitter Over Diversity: Constructions of Diversity as Clashing Projects1
Absolved from the neoliberal burden of responsibility: The effect of populist victim rhetoric on leader support1
Affective polarization within parties1
“With all these feelings, I just can't stay passive”: A qualitative exploration of eco‐emotions, political perception, perceived injustice and pro‐environmental behaviors among young adults in France1
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How does exposure to information on ethnic discrimination inspire belief change? A preregistered population‐based survey experiment testing resonance and dissonance mechanisms1
Intergroup political theater: Transforming social representations among peace leaders in contested territories1
The emotional consequences of novel political identities: Brexit and mental health in the United Kingdom1
What personality traits do citizens want politicians to have? Observational and experimental evidence of citizens' preferences in three countries1
The affective nature of affective polarization: Evidence from physiological and self‐reported responses to US politicians1
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Election results can decrease intergroup threat and through that positively affect intergroup relations1
Does System Justification Promote Establishment Voting? Mainstream Politics in France, Germany, and the United Kingdom1
A very particular set of skills: The role of perspective‐taking in hostage diplomacy negotiations1
Longitudinal co‐occurrence of adolescent mental health difficulties and democratic citizenship in early adulthood1
Russia's @RT_Com Twitter campaign supporting the 2022 Ukraine invasion: A rhetorical analysis1
Different images of God predict religious nationalism among Christians1
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Backsliding on democracy: A critical dialogue1
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
Exploring the role of social openness for pro‐diversity attitudes in urban and rural places1
Depolarization and its discontents: Experimental evidence on affective polarization and willingness to confront racism and misinformation from two online workshops1
How to study democratic backsliding1
Progovernment militias, identity leadership, and ethnic defection: Evidence from Israel's recruitment of the South Lebanese Army1
Diplomacy of grievance: National narcissism, exclusive victimhood, and demanding WWII reparations in Poland and Greece1
Backlash among the dominant: Assessing support for elitism in four European countries1
“Dissatisfied democrats, but democrats nonetheless?” Unraveling the democratic paradox between populism and preference for alternative political systems1
The age of virtue signaling: Moral grandstanding as competitive display among young men1
When are identity‐based groups harmful to democracy? Victimized majority narratives and Muslim groups in Indonesia1
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On the Misrecognition of Identity: Muslims' Everyday Experiences in Scotland1
The curvilinear effects of objective and subjective socioeconomic status on economic conservatism and welfare policy support among middle‐class Americans1
Trump Voters' social position in U.S. Society: Uniqueness and radical‐right support1
Navigating identity dilemmas in protest: Everyday discursive strategies of engagement in the Catalan independence movement1
Prosocial behavior amid violence: The deservingness heuristic and solidarity with victims1
“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
Enter the matrix: Examining the psychosocial determinants of support for a technocracy of artificial intelligence1
Unaffected polarization? Populism and affective polarization in comparative perspective1
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Helping Ukrainian war refugees in Poland: The emergence of a political assemblage1
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