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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
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Moral framing and referendum politics: Navigating the empathy battlefield64
The impact of situational context and dispositions on costly signals of reassurance: Experimental evidence from Taiwan54
Bearing the burden of peace: Intergroup attribution bias and public support for peace provisions40
Ostracism as a threat to modern democracies: Evidence from 11 European countries38
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 parliament34
The Role of Personal Centrality of Ingroup Victimhood in Intergroup Relations and Political Agenda in Northern Ireland34
Trust in action: Cooperation, information, and social policy preferences33
Politicization of a Pathogen: A Prospective Longitudinal Study of COVID‐19 Responses in a Nationally Representative U.S. Sample32
Fact‐checking election‐campaign misinformation: Impacts on noncommitted voters' feelings and behavior31
Political intolerance in comprehensive welfare states: Evidence from Sweden30
Not in the mood for party: Symptoms of depression reduce the weight of partisanship on vote choice26
Hot Populism? Affective Responses to Antiestablishment Rhetoric26
Examining the correspondence between political ideology and gun policy attitudes among Black and White people in the United States25
Collective candidacies and mandates in Brazil: Recasting democratic mediation23
Determinants of belief in conspiracy theories about the war in Ukraine among youth22
Urban Colombian youths' perspectives on the armed conflict and possibilities for ways forward21
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The Role of Race in Political Attitudes Among the Religiously Unaffiliated20
Adult belief change: New theoretical and empirical perspectives. Special issue introduction19
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The Relative Importance of Self‐Focused and Society‐Focused Values in Explaining Political Attitudes in Europe18
From cognitive coherence to political polarization: A data‐driven agent‐based model of belief change18
Collective Narcissism as a Basis for Nationalism16
Accounting for the association between socioeconomic status and youth political participation: A twin family study16
European identity's effect on immigration attitudes: Testing the predictions of the common Ingroup identity model versus ingroup projection model16
The network dynamics of antiprejudice norms: A field experiment testing antiprejudice interventions in real groups15
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
“Trading places”: Do individual status changes reduce misattributions of poverty?15
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Motivated to Forgive? Partisan Scandals and Party Supporters14
A cultural theory of the culture wars14
Are Newsjunkies More Likely to Vote? Intrinsic Need for Orientation and Voter Registration, Intention to Vote, and Voter Conscientiousness14
Sociopolitical consequences of COVID‐19 in the Americas, Europe, and Asia: A multilevel, multicountry investigation of risk perceptions and support for antidemocratic practices14
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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
Implicit motives and conflict intensity: A meta‐analysis of the roles of power and affiliation13
Love him for the enemies he has made: Signaling by inflammatory pro‐gun rhetoric13
Psychological dispositions and political attitudes in a hyperpartisan context12
How does the geography of surveillance affect collective action?12
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
Strengthening national identities in Africa? Analyzing the impact of Ghana's National Service Scheme12
Who is building peace? A latent class analysis of youth peacebuilders in a conflict‐affected setting12
Are rules made to be broken? Conspiracy exposure promotes aggressive behavior11
Political discrimination in hiring: Evidence from a large field experiment11
Do emotions drive the link between winning and satisfaction with democracy? Leveraging the Super Bowl, the World Cup, and The Lion King11
Waking up to politics: How sleep quality relates to political participation11
Psychological insights on the fans' boycott of the 2022 FIFA World Cup11
Young and informed? Adolescents' perceptions of ‘left’ and ‘right’11
Perceiving as biased but nevertheless persuaded? Effects of fact–checking news delivered by partisan media10
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
From Gaming to Hating: Extreme‐Right Ideological Indoctrination and Mobilization for Violence of Children on Online Gaming Platforms10
The authoritarian personality model of punitiveness is inconsistent in predicting punishment preferences: A sentencing vignette study in a representative sample from six countries10
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Asymmetry in political polarization at multiple levels of bias10
From civic roots to voting booths: Gendered pathways from adolescent motivation to electoral participation in adulthood10
From “what” and “when” to “how” and “why”: Moving the study of psychological dispositions and political preferences forward9
Voting at 16? 16–17‐Year‐Old Germans Vote as Correctly as Adults9
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Neoliberalism and governmental and individual responses to the COVID‐19 pandemic: A cross‐national analysis9
The psychology of political attitudinal volatility9
Integration and urban citizenship: A social‐psychological approach to refugee integration through active constructions of place attachment to the city8
From bias to balance: Testing the effect of feedback on ideological bias expression. A registered report8
Intellectual Humility and Political Polarization: An Exploration of Social Networks, Attitudes, and Affect8
Projection in the Face of Centrism: Voter Inferences About Candidates' Party Affiliation in Low‐Information Contexts8
It seems tense: The influence of loneliness on perceived social conflict and societal threats8
Corruption erodes people's beliefs in morality and justice8
False consensus beliefs and populist attitudes7
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The Religious Communication Approach and Political Behavior7
Distrustful Complacency and the COVID‐19 Vaccine: How Concern and Political Trust Interact to Affect Vaccine Hesitancy7
Appeals to Consensus and Partisan Politics in Parliamentary Discourse on the Pandemic7
Critical citizens and discontented citizens: Education, perceptions of fairness, and support for anti‐COVID measures in China7
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
In the shadow of September 11: The roots and ramifications of anti‐Muslim attitudes in the United States7
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
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The politics of pooling risk: People want to help the vulnerable by involving the government in healthcare6
Gender and Attitudes Towards a Peace Agreement in Situations of Intractable Conflict: The Case of the Jewish‐Israeli Society6
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
Social justice orientations: Exploring their impact on poverty attributions and support for social protection6
Moralizing the COVID ‐19 Pandemic: Self‐Interest Predicts Moral Condemnation of Other's Compliance6
(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
Left–right political orientations are not systematically related to conspiracism6
Class, genes, and rationality: A gene–environment interaction approach to ideology6
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Puncturing the Knowledge Illusion Does Not Reduce Policy and Political Extremism: Evidence From a Replication and Extension6
Debunking misinformation on critical race theory6
Emotion (dys)regulation and national narcissism6
Social contact and ethnic identity: Experimental evidence from West Africa6
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Legitimizing inclusion: Psychological interventions increase support for minority inclusion in the political game, but less so during wartime5
Coming out as Roma. Minority stress, multisystemic resilience, and identity among Roma people in Germany5
Political Ideology in Early Childhood: Making the Case for Studying Young Children in Political Psychology5
Why can't we be friends? Untangling conjoined polarization in America5
Can we keep hope alive?Review of Oded AdomiLeshem's Hope amidst conflict: Philosophical and psychological explorations (Oxford University Press, 2024) 204 pp.5
Weapons of mass division: Sputnik Latvia's Russophobia narratives and testing the rejection‐identification model in Russian speakers in Latvia5
Extraversion Probably Does Not Cause Political Participation. Evidence from Two Genetically Informed Designs5
How people update their beliefs about climate change: An experimental investigation of the optimistic update bias and how to reduce it5
Integrating insights into radicalization: A text‐mining systematic review5
Guilt, shame, and antiwar action in an authoritarian country at war5
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The Interplay Between Explicit and Implicit Right‐Wing Populism in Germany and Switzerland5
“Put a Little Love in Your Heart”: Acceptance of Paternalistic and Ally Political Discourses Both Predict Pro‐Roma Solidarity Intentions Through Moral Inclusion5
Identity fusion and support for political authoritarianism: Lessons from the U.S. insurrection of 20215
The relationship between political procedural justice and attitudes toward the political system: A meta‐analysis5
Zone‐flooding, public confusion, and signal detection theory: A theoretical framework and registered report5
Introducing a novel method to support polarized citizens to sustain political dialogue4
Attitude change by facilitating choice: Experimentally evaluating a social identity‐based intervention to nativist populist rhetoric4
Looking for relief: Developing and testing the emotion‐regulation explanation of selective exposure to political information4
Motivated causal judgments and responsibility for civilian casualties in military conflicts4
Mass political murder: What and where is the hate?4
“Not as bad as I thought”: Economic attitudes and motivated reasoning in coalition governments4
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Dealing with uncertainty and cognitive biases in international politics4
Rethinking the link between cognitive reflection and susceptibility to political misinformation: Distinguishing hard from soft news4
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
Compensating personal climate response inefficacy with political conservatism?4
Core Values and Priming Effects in Electoral Campaigns4
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Social mobility beliefs and attitudes toward redistribution: Potential explanatory mechanisms4
Values in politics: Exploring alignment between value salience in political texts, value importance in representative population samples, and political engagement4
Ideology shapes evaluation of history within the general population4
When virtues are weaponized: Moral superiority aggravates outgroup dehumanization4
How Prominent Cases of Sexual Harassment Influence Public Opinion Across Countries: The Cases of Cosby, Trump, and Weinstein3
When survival becomes politics: Necessity activism and identity work under precarity3
A certainty‐weighted, belief‐based model of political attitudes: A Bayesian analysis of American public attitudes toward the Affordable Care Act3
COVID‐19 Vaccination Acceptance: A Case of Interplay Between Political and Health Dimensions3
Beyond bidimensional measures: Introducing a culturally tailored measure of political orientation3
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The Dependency–Counterdependency Dynamic: Interactive Effects of System Justification and Power‐Distance Orientation on Radicalization against the Political System3
Closing the Solidarity Gap? How Ethnic Diversity Alters Who We Are Willing to Support3
All we need is love? Irreconcilable political incongruence in families after the 2019 social unrest in Hong Kong3
Power, meta‐perceptions, and belonging: How positive recognition matters for group identification, identity compatibility, and intergroup attitudes3
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Crowding at the ballot box: Germ aversion and voting methods in the 2020 U.S. general election3
Rebels without a cause: Collective narcissism and political contrarianism3
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
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Temporal comparisons shape system justification processes3
Migration discourses from the radical right: Mapping and testing potential for political mobilization3
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Investigating generalized versus case‐by‐case support for labor unions3
The affective style of politics: Evidence from cross‐country surveys3
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
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Diversity politics: The effects of elite rhetoric and issue racialization on support for descriptive representation3
A critical evaluation and research agenda for the study of psychological dispositions and political attitudes3
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Reaching across the aisle: Committed and optimistic citizens support a non‐preferred presidency and cooperate with electoral winners3
You Know You're Right: How Intellectual Humility Decreases Political Hostility2
Tune in to the prebunking network! Development and validation of six inoculation videos that prebunk manipulation tactics and logical fallacies in misinformation2
Partisan schadenfreude and candidate cruelty2
Online political adverts: The effect of disclosures and opportunities for clandestine campaigning2
Collective action among the extremes? Relations between political ideology, political extremism, emotions, and collective action2
How collective punishment harm intergroup relations through ingroup homogeneity, perceived fairness, and counter‐collective action: A registered report2
What explains elite affective polarization? Evidence from Canadian politicians2
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Conspiracy thinking and belief in partisan conspiracy theories: A moderating effect of partisan congruence?2
Emotional Reactions toCOVID‐19 Projections and Consequences for Protective Policies and Personal Behavior2
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All you'll feel is doom and gloom: Multiple perspectives on the associations between economic anxiety and conspiracy beliefs2
Susceptibility to misinformation and propaganda during wartime: Evidence from the Israel‐Gaza war2
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Citizenship in social and political psychology: A relational and future‐oriented framework for the study of everyday citizenship practice2
We love, they hate: Emotions in affective polarization and how partisans may use them2
Stability of National‐Identity Content: Level, Predictors, and Implications2
Emotional representation: Identifying the characteristics and consequences of elected officials mirroring the emotions of their constituents2
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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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“I had to open my eyes”—A narrative approach to studying the process of adult belief change2
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
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
Valence of immigration news, perceived threat, and support for restrictive immigration policy: A multilevel study across 26 countries2
Ready or not . National identity, vote choice, and mass media: Evidence from Germany2
Trusting others in a divided country: The determinants of social trust in South Africa2
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The dual impact of meritocracy and denial of gender discrimination in political candidacy2
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
What personality traits do citizens want politicians to have? Observational and experimental evidence of citizens' preferences in three countries1
Trump Voters' social position in U.S. Society: Uniqueness and radical‐right support1
The curvilinear effects of objective and subjective socioeconomic status on economic conservatism and welfare policy support among middle‐class Americans1
Gender Gap in Parental Leave Intentions: Evidence from 37 Countries1
“Dissatisfied democrats, but democrats nonetheless?” Unraveling the democratic paradox between populism and preference for alternative political systems1
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Lay theories of place effects1
Culture, self, and politics: The effect of interdependent self‐construal on system justification1
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
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Longitudinal co‐occurrence of adolescent mental health difficulties and democratic citizenship in early adulthood1
The Intergenerational Transmission of Party Preferences in Multiparty Contexts: Examining Parental Socialization Processes in the Netherlands1
National identification weakens, and territorial identification strengthens, the relationship between masculine honor values and the justification of practices of connivance with the mafia1
Religious‐based homonegativity as a function of the endorsement of traditional gender norms1
The age of virtue signaling: Moral grandstanding as competitive display among young men1
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
Intergroup political theater: Transforming social representations among peace leaders in contested territories1
Helping Ukrainian war refugees in Poland: The emergence of a political assemblage1
Affective polarization within parties1
“We had a lot of fun”: Psychological rewards of white supremacy group membership1
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Different images of God predict religious nationalism among Christians1
How does exposure to information on ethnic discrimination inspire belief change? A preregistered population‐based survey experiment testing resonance and dissonance mechanisms1
The Many Guises of Populism and Crisis: Introduction to the Special Issue on Populism and Global Crises1
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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Prosocial behavior amid violence: The deservingness heuristic and solidarity with victims1
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
Perceived threat, compassion, and public evaluations toward refugees1
Seeing red: How gerrymandering emotionally mobilizes turnout1
Political Extremism and a Generalized Propensity to Discriminate Among Values1
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Ideological Contestation on Twitter Over Diversity: Constructions of Diversity as Clashing Projects1
Reducing Political Dehumanization by Pairing Facts With Personal Experiences1
Unaffected polarization? Populism and affective polarization in comparative perspective1
Parochial Altruism and Political Ideology1
Diplomacy of grievance: National narcissism, exclusive victimhood, and demanding WWII reparations in Poland and Greece1
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Support for unconditional basic income in Spain: A materialist or post‐materialist issue?1
The construction of threatening Others: Discourses and agendas of the Brazilian and German radical right1
Benevolent authority beliefs, democratic values, and public support: A comparative study of China and Japan1
The personality of a personality cult? Personality characteristics of Donald Trump's most loyal supporters1
Progovernment militias, identity leadership, and ethnic defection: Evidence from Israel's recruitment of the South Lebanese Army1
Responsibility for impairment shapes the perceived deservingness of welfare claimants with disabilities1
On the Misrecognition of Identity: Muslims' Everyday Experiences in Scotland1
Russia's @RT_Com Twitter campaign supporting the 2022 Ukraine invasion: A rhetorical analysis1
Hooked on a Feeling: Russia's Annexation of Crimea Through the Lens of Emotion1
Down But Not Yet Out: Depression, Political Efficacy, and Voting1
Beliefs about collective victimization in contexts of ongoing and historical oppression: A Q methodology study among Kurds from Turkey and Northern Kurdistan in Germany1
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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Out‐party, out of luck: Partisan biases in public support for due process in corruption investigations1
Navigating identity dilemmas in protest: Everyday discursive strategies of engagement in the Catalan independence movement1
“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
Backlash among the dominant: Assessing support for elitism in four European countries1
Overcoming (vegan) burnout: Mass gatherings can provide respite and rekindle shared identity and social action efforts in moralized minority groups1
The limits of Brexit prejudice1
How to study democratic backsliding1
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