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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
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Trust in action: Cooperation, information, and social policy preferences74
Bearing the burden of peace: Intergroup attribution bias and public support for peace provisions67
The impact of situational context and dispositions on costly signals of reassurance: Experimental evidence from Taiwan65
The Role of Personal Centrality of Ingroup Victimhood in Intergroup Relations and Political Agenda in Northern Ireland56
Ostracism as a threat to modern democracies: Evidence from 11 European countries37
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 parliament35
Fact‐checking election‐campaign misinformation: Impacts on noncommitted voters' feelings and behavior33
Moral framing and referendum politics: Navigating the empathy battlefield31
Politicization of a Pathogen: A Prospective Longitudinal Study of COVID‐19 Responses in a Nationally Representative U.S. Sample30
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The Role of Race in Political Attitudes Among the Religiously Unaffiliated28
Explaining Autocratic Support: The Varying Effects of Threat on Personality28
The Making of Radical‐Right Voters: Persuasion and Contrast Effects in a Dynamic Political Context27
Economic Distress and Populism: Examining the Role of Identity Threat and Feelings of Social Exclusion26
Hot Populism? Affective Responses to Antiestablishment Rhetoric26
Determinants of belief in conspiracy theories about the war in Ukraine among youth25
Populism and Layers of Social Belonging: Support of Populist Parties in Europe24
Political intolerance in comprehensive welfare states: Evidence from Sweden22
Urban Colombian youths' perspectives on the armed conflict and possibilities for ways forward22
Collective candidacies and mandates in Brazil: Recasting democratic mediation21
Not in the mood for party: Symptoms of depression reduce the weight of partisanship on vote choice20
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 Conflict20
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“Trading places”: Do individual status changes reduce misattributions of poverty?19
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The network dynamics of antiprejudice norms: A field experiment testing antiprejudice interventions in real groups19
Are Newsjunkies More Likely to Vote? Intrinsic Need for Orientation and Voter Registration, Intention to Vote, and Voter Conscientiousness18
Sociopolitical consequences of COVID‐19 in the Americas, Europe, and Asia: A multilevel, multicountry investigation of risk perceptions and support for antidemocratic practices17
Moral Leadership in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election17
The Relative Importance of Self‐Focused and Society‐Focused Values in Explaining Political Attitudes in Europe16
Accounting for the association between socioeconomic status and youth political participation: A twin family study16
A cultural theory of the culture wars16
Motivated to Forgive? Partisan Scandals and Party Supporters15
European identity's effect on immigration attitudes: Testing the predictions of the common Ingroup identity model versus ingroup projection model15
Female Politicians as Climate Fools: Intertextual and Multimodal Constructions of Misogyny Disguised as Humor in Political Communication15
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Collective Narcissism as a Basis for Nationalism14
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
Pandemic Politics in the United States: COVID‐19 as a New Type of Political Emergency13
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 setting13
Psychological dispositions and political attitudes in a hyperpartisan context13
The different sides of the housing crisis in Portugal: A contribution to building inclusive, fair, and effective solutions12
Strengthening national identities in Africa? Analyzing the impact of Ghana's National Service Scheme12
Are rules made to be broken? Conspiracy exposure promotes aggressive behavior12
The authoritarian personality model of punitiveness is inconsistent in predicting punishment preferences: A sentencing vignette study in a representative sample from six countries11
Personality and the Policy Positions of Politicians11
Young and informed? Adolescents' perceptions of ‘left’ and ‘right’11
Does Analytic Thinking Insulate Against Pro‐Kremlin Disinformation? Evidence From Ukraine11
Psychological insights on the fans' boycott of the 2022 FIFA World Cup11
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
Asymmetry in political polarization at multiple levels of bias10
Perceiving as biased but nevertheless persuaded? Effects of fact–checking news delivered by partisan media10
From Gaming to Hating: Extreme‐Right Ideological Indoctrination and Mobilization for Violence of Children on Online Gaming Platforms10
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
What Are You Afraid of? Authoritarianism, Terrorism, and Threat9
Overestimating Reported Prejudice Causes Democrats to Believe Disadvantaged Groups Are Less Electable9
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Integration and urban citizenship: A social‐psychological approach to refugee integration through active constructions of place attachment to the city9
Fear and Loathing of Wall Street: Political Liberalism, Uncertainty, and Threat Management in a Dangerous Economic World9
Toward an Integrative Perspective on Distinct Positive Emotions for Political Action: Analyzing, Comparing, Evaluating, and Synthesizing Three Theoretical Perspectives8
From bias to balance: Testing the effect of feedback on ideological bias expression. A registered report8
Voting at 16? 16–17‐Year‐Old Germans Vote as Correctly as Adults8
Neoliberalism and governmental and individual responses to the COVID‐19 pandemic: A cross‐national analysis8
It seems tense: The influence of loneliness on perceived social conflict and societal threats8
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Intellectual Humility and Political Polarization: An Exploration of Social Networks, Attitudes, and Affect8
Moral Polarization Predicts Support for Authoritarian and Progressive Strong Leaders via the Perceived Breakdown of Society8
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In the shadow of September 11: The roots and ramifications of anti‐Muslim attitudes in the United States7
False consensus beliefs and populist attitudes7
Social justice orientations: Exploring their impact on poverty attributions and support for social protection7
“I trust you, but I'm scared!” Attitudinal and emotional drivers of support for restrictive interventions during crises7
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 Behavior7
Moralizing the COVID‐19 Pandemic: Self‐Interest Predicts Moral Condemnation of Other's Compliance, Distancing, and Vaccination7
Distrustful Complacency and the COVID‐19 Vaccine: How Concern and Political Trust Interact to Affect Vaccine Hesitancy6
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Appeals to Consensus and Partisan Politics in Parliamentary Discourse on the Pandemic6
Weapons of mass division: Sputnik Latvia's Russophobia narratives and testing the rejection‐identification model in Russian speakers in Latvia6
(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
Critical citizens and discontented citizens: Education, perceptions of fairness, and support for anti‐COVID measures in China6
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Gender and Attitudes Towards a Peace Agreement in Situations of Intractable Conflict: The Case of the Jewish‐Israeli Society6
The politics of pooling risk: People want to help the vulnerable by involving the government in healthcare6
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
Class, genes, and rationality: A gene–environment interaction approach to ideology6
Legitimizing inclusion: Psychological interventions increase support for minority inclusion in the political game, but less so during wartime6
Debunking misinformation on critical race theory5
Left–right political orientations are not systematically related to conspiracism5
MOBILISE: A Higher‐Order Integration of Collective Action Research to Address Global Challenges5
“Put a Little Love in Your Heart”: Acceptance of Paternalistic and Ally Political Discourses Both Predict Pro‐Roma Solidarity Intentions Through Moral Inclusion5
Consequences of Economic Inequality for the Social and Political Vitality of Society: A Social Identity Analysis5
Social contact and ethnic identity: Experimental evidence from West Africa5
How people update their beliefs about climate change: An experimental investigation of the optimistic update bias and how to reduce it4
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Coming out as Roma. Minority stress, multisystemic resilience, and identity among Roma people in Germany4
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 information4
Make It Great Again: The Relationship Between Populist Attitudes and Nostalgia4
The relationship between political procedural justice and attitudes toward the political system: A meta‐analysis4
Why can't we be friends? Untangling conjoined polarization in America4
Social and Cognitive Aspects of the Vulnerability to Political Misinformation4
Extraversion Probably Does Not Cause Political Participation. Evidence from Two Genetically Informed Designs4
Dealing with uncertainty and cognitive biases in international politics4
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 Extension4
Guilt, shame, and antiwar action in an authoritarian country at war4
Political Ideology in Early Childhood: Making the Case for Studying Young Children in Political Psychology4
Identity fusion and support for political authoritarianism: Lessons from the U.S. insurrection of 20214
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Socioeconomic status self‐deception as a way to perpetuate classist societies3
Ideology shapes evaluation of history within the general population3
Beyond bidimensional measures: Introducing a culturally tailored measure of political orientation3
Power, meta‐perceptions, and belonging: How positive recognition matters for group identification, identity compatibility, and intergroup attitudes3
Projection in Politicians' Perceptions of Public Opinion3
Ingroup Bias, Partisanship, and Gendered Voting3
“Not as bad as I thought”: Economic attitudes and motivated reasoning in coalition governments3
All we need is love? Irreconcilable political incongruence in families after the 2019 social unrest in Hong Kong3
The role of change in the relationships among decent work, political cynicism and voter turnout3
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Closing the Solidarity Gap? How Ethnic Diversity Alters Who We Are Willing to Support3
How Prominent Cases of Sexual Harassment Influence Public Opinion Across Countries: The Cases of Cosby, Trump, and Weinstein3
Social mobility beliefs and attitudes toward redistribution: Potential explanatory mechanisms3
Core Values and Priming Effects in Electoral Campaigns3
COVID‐19 Vaccination Acceptance: A Case of Interplay Between Political and Health Dimensions3
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Australia Day or Invasion Day? Perspectives on the Continuing Impact of Colonialism Underlies Public Contestations Around Australia's National Day3
Temporal comparisons shape system justification processes3
Crowding at the ballot box: Germ aversion and voting methods in the 2020 U.S. general election3
Coping with Cross‐Pressures: The Seamless Garment in Catholic Political Behavior3
Mass political murder: What and where is the hate?3
Attitude change by facilitating choice: Experimentally evaluating a social identity‐based intervention to nativist populist rhetoric3
The association between perceived injustice and political trust: Testing a dual‐pathway model through anger and patriotism across four countries3
Emotional Reactions toCOVID‐19 Projections and Consequences for Protective Policies and Personal Behavior2
The Dependency–Counterdependency Dynamic: Interactive Effects of System Justification and Power‐Distance Orientation on Radicalization against the Political System2
Identifying different ‘types’ of participants in the Chilean student movement: A latent transition analysis of collective action intentions, social class and movement identification2
Filling in the Gaps: False Memories and Partisan Bias2
Bonding through adversity: Effects of Brexit and COVID‐19 lockdown on identity fusion and pro‐group behavior2
Collective post‐traumatic growth: Validating and measuring positive change in the collective self among victims of sexual violence2
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You Know You're Right: How Intellectual Humility Decreases Political Hostility2
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Abortion Attitudes: An Overview of Demographic and Ideological Differences2
Reaching across the aisle: Committed and optimistic citizens support a non‐preferred presidency and cooperate with electoral winners2
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Tune in to the prebunking network! Development and validation of six inoculation videos that prebunk manipulation tactics and logical fallacies in misinformation2
Valence of immigration news, perceived threat, and support for restrictive immigration policy: A multilevel study across 26 countries2
Trusting others in a divided country: The determinants of social trust in South Africa2
Facing a Common Human Fate: Relating Global Identity and Climate Change Mitigation2
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The dual impact of meritocracy and denial of gender discrimination in political candidacy2
All you'll feel is doom and gloom: Multiple perspectives on the associations between economic anxiety and conspiracy beliefs2
A critical evaluation and research agenda for the study of psychological dispositions and political attitudes2
Youth Political Mobilization: Violence, Intimidation, and Patronage in Zimbabwe2
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
Partisan schadenfreude and candidate cruelty2
Yesterday, all our troubles seemed so far away—(Re)conceptualizing nostalgic deprivation as a predictor for radical‐right support2
The integration paradox: Does awareness of the extent of ethno‐racial discrimination increase reports of discrimination?2
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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 Turkey2
Migration discourses from the radical right: Mapping and testing potential for political mobilization2
What explains elite affective polarization? Evidence from Canadian politicians1
Online political adverts: The effect of disclosures and opportunities for clandestine campaigning1
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The affective nexus between refugees and terrorism: A panel study on how social media use shapes negative attitudes toward refugees1
Depolarization and its discontents: Experimental evidence on affective polarization and willingness to confront racism and misinformation from two online workshops1
Seeing red: How gerrymandering emotionally mobilizes turnout1
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Parochial Altruism and Political Ideology1
National identification weakens, and territorial identification strengthens, the relationship between masculine honor values and the justification of practices of connivance with the mafia1
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Perceived threat, compassion, and public evaluations toward refugees1
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
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Culture, self, and politics: The effect of interdependent self‐construal on system justification1
Intergroup political theater: Transforming social representations among peace leaders in contested territories1
Stressed Out: The Missing Influence of Stress Arousal in Emotion's Role in Political Decision‐Making1
Dual superordinate identities in Sweden's vulnerable neighborhoods: Stronger local and national identities associated with increases in institutional and interpersonal trust1
Election results can decrease intergroup threat and through that positively affect intergroup relations1
Stability of National‐Identity Content: Level, Predictors, and Implications1
Collective action among the extremes? Relations between political ideology, political extremism, emotions, and collective action1
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Out‐party, out of luck: Partisan biases in public support for due process in corruption investigations1
Backlash among the dominant: Assessing support for elitism in four European countries1
Common Sense as a Political Weapon: Populism, Science Skepticism, and Global Crisis‐Solving Motivations1
Lay theories of place effects1
Reducing Political Dehumanization by Pairing Facts With Personal Experiences1
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The more you want to fit in, the more similar you become: How others' ideologies relate to our own intergroup attitudes1
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On the Misrecognition of Identity: Muslims' Everyday Experiences in Scotland1
Down But Not Yet Out: Depression, Political Efficacy, and Voting1
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Responsibility for impairment shapes the perceived deservingness of welfare claimants with disabilities1
Progovernment militias, identity leadership, and ethnic defection: Evidence from Israel's recruitment of the South Lebanese Army1
The limits of Brexit prejudice1
Ready or not. National identity, vote choice, and mass media: Evidence from Germany1
The Many Guises of Populism and Crisis: Introduction to the Special Issue on Populism and Global Crises1
Moral portraits: Understanding world leaders with moral foundations theory1
Doom and Gloom, From Structure to Human Minds: What Makes a North Korean Nuclear Deal Difficult?1
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 Trust1
What personality traits do citizens want politicians to have? Observational and experimental evidence of citizens' preferences in three countries1
“We had a lot of fun”: Psychological rewards of white supremacy group membership1
The Intergenerational Transmission of Party Preferences in Multiparty Contexts: Examining Parental Socialization Processes in the Netherlands1
Longitudinal co‐occurrence of adolescent mental health difficulties and democratic citizenship in early adulthood1
Gender Gap in Parental Leave Intentions: Evidence from 37 Countries1
Hooked on a Feeling: Russia's Annexation of Crimea Through the Lens of Emotion1
Russia's @RT_Com Twitter campaign supporting the 2022 Ukraine invasion: A rhetorical analysis1
Matthew Bowman, Christian: The Politics of a Word in America1
Prosocial behavior amid violence: The deservingness heuristic and solidarity with victims1
Affective polarization within parties1
John T.Jost'sLeft & Right: The Psychological Significance of a Political Distinction. New York: Oxford University Press; 20211
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Does System Justification Promote Establishment Voting? Mainstream Politics in France, Germany, and the United Kingdom1
Navigating identity dilemmas in protest: Everyday discursive strategies of engagement in the Catalan independence movement1
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