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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
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Fact‐checking election‐campaign misinformation: Impacts on noncommitted voters' feelings and behavior82
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 parliament71
Politicization of a Pathogen: A Prospective Longitudinal Study of COVID‐19 Responses in a Nationally Representative U.S. Sample69
The Role of Personal Centrality of Ingroup Victimhood in Intergroup Relations and Political Agenda in Northern Ireland59
Moral framing and referendum politics: Navigating the empathy battlefield40
Ostracism as a threat to modern democracies: Evidence from 11 European countries38
The impact of situational context and dispositions on costly signals of reassurance: Experimental evidence from Taiwan36
Bearing the burden of peace: Intergroup attribution bias and public support for peace provisions35
Trust in action: Cooperation, information, and social policy preferences34
Explaining Autocratic Support: The Varying Effects of Threat on Personality31
The Role of Race in Political Attitudes Among the Religiously Unaffiliated31
Urban Colombian youths' perspectives on the armed conflict and possibilities for ways forward29
Collective candidacies and mandates in Brazil: Recasting democratic mediation28
The Making of Radical‐Right Voters: Persuasion and Contrast Effects in a Dynamic Political Context28
Not in the mood for party: Symptoms of depression reduce the weight of partisanship on vote choice26
Hot Populism? Affective Responses to Antiestablishment Rhetoric24
Determinants of belief in conspiracy theories about the war in Ukraine among youth24
Political intolerance in comprehensive welfare states: Evidence from Sweden24
Populism and Layers of Social Belonging: Support of Populist Parties in Europe22
Economic Distress and Populism: Examining the Role of Identity Threat and Feelings of Social Exclusion22
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“Trading places”: Do individual status changes reduce misattributions of poverty?21
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Motivated to Forgive? Partisan Scandals and Party Supporters20
The network dynamics of antiprejudice norms: A field experiment testing antiprejudice interventions in real groups20
European identity's effect on immigration attitudes: Testing the predictions of the common Ingroup identity model versus ingroup projection model20
Are Newsjunkies More Likely to Vote? Intrinsic Need for Orientation and Voter Registration, Intention to Vote, and Voter Conscientiousness19
A cultural theory of the culture wars18
Female Politicians as Climate Fools: Intertextual and Multimodal Constructions of Misogyny Disguised as Humor in Political Communication18
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 Conflict18
Sociopolitical consequences of COVID‐19 in the Americas, Europe, and Asia: A multilevel, multicountry investigation of risk perceptions and support for antidemocratic practices17
The Relative Importance of Self‐Focused and Society‐Focused Values in Explaining Political Attitudes in Europe16
Collective Narcissism as a Basis for Nationalism15
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Accounting for the association between socioeconomic status and youth political participation: A twin family study15
Who is building peace? A latent class analysis of youth peacebuilders in a conflict‐affected setting14
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
Strengthening national identities in Africa? Analyzing the impact of Ghana's National Service Scheme13
The different sides of the housing crisis in Portugal: A contribution to building inclusive, fair, and effective solutions13
Psychological dispositions and political attitudes in a hyperpartisan context13
Pandemic Politics in the United States: COVID‐19 as a New Type of Political Emergency13
How does the geography of surveillance affect collective action?12
Personality and the Policy Positions of Politicians12
The authoritarian personality model of punitiveness is inconsistent in predicting punishment preferences: A sentencing vignette study in a representative sample from six countries12
Does Analytic Thinking Insulate Against Pro‐Kremlin Disinformation? Evidence From Ukraine12
Perceiving as biased but nevertheless persuaded? Effects of fact–checking news delivered by partisan media12
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
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 Scientists12
From Gaming to Hating: Extreme‐Right Ideological Indoctrination and Mobilization for Violence of Children on Online Gaming Platforms11
Young and informed? Adolescents' perceptions of ‘left’ and ‘right’11
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What Are You Afraid of? Authoritarianism, Terrorism, and Threat10
Asymmetry in political polarization at multiple levels of bias10
Psychological insights on the fans' boycott of the 2022 FIFA World Cup10
Neoliberalism and governmental and individual responses to the COVID‐19 pandemic: A cross‐national analysis10
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It seems tense: The influence of loneliness on perceived social conflict and societal threats9
From “what” and “when” to “how” and “why”: Moving the study of psychological dispositions and political preferences forward9
Integration and urban citizenship: A social‐psychological approach to refugee integration through active constructions of place attachment to the city9
From bias to balance: Testing the effect of feedback on ideological bias expression. A registered report9
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 Perspectives9
Voting at 16? 16–17‐Year‐Old Germans Vote as Correctly as Adults8
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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”8
Overestimating Reported Prejudice Causes Democrats to Believe Disadvantaged Groups Are Less Electable8
Projection in the Face of Centrism: Voter Inferences About Candidates' Party Affiliation in Low‐Information Contexts8
“I trust you, but I'm scared!” Attitudinal and emotional drivers of support for restrictive interventions during crises8
Intellectual Humility and Political Polarization: An Exploration of Social Networks, Attitudes, and Affect8
False consensus beliefs and populist attitudes8
Appeals to Consensus and Partisan Politics in Parliamentary Discourse on the Pandemic8
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Puncturing the Knowledge Illusion Does Not Reduce Policy and Political Extremism: Evidence From a Replication and Extension7
The Religious Communication Approach and Political Behavior7
Social justice orientations: Exploring their impact on poverty attributions and support for social protection7
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Critical citizens and discontented citizens: Education, perceptions of fairness, and support for anti‐COVID measures in China7
Distrustful Complacency and the COVID‐19 Vaccine: How Concern and Political Trust Interact to Affect Vaccine Hesitancy7
Debunking misinformation on critical race theory7
Moralizing the COVID‐19 Pandemic: Self‐Interest Predicts Moral Condemnation of Other's Compliance, Distancing, and Vaccination7
In the shadow of September 11: The roots and ramifications of anti‐Muslim attitudes in the United States7
Weapons of mass division: Sputnik Latvia's Russophobia narratives and testing the rejection‐identification model in Russian speakers in Latvia6
The Interplay Between Explicit and Implicit Right‐Wing Populism in Germany and Switzerland6
MOBILISE: A Higher‐Order Integration of Collective Action Research to Address Global Challenges6
Gender and Attitudes Towards a Peace Agreement in Situations of Intractable Conflict: The Case of the Jewish‐Israeli Society6
Class, genes, and rationality: A gene–environment interaction approach to ideology6
“Put a Little Love in Your Heart”: Acceptance of Paternalistic and Ally Political Discourses Both Predict Pro‐Roma Solidarity Intentions Through Moral Inclusion6
(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
Consequences of Economic Inequality for the Social and Political Vitality of Society: A Social Identity Analysis6
Emotion (dys)regulation and national narcissism6
Social contact and ethnic identity: Experimental evidence from West Africa6
Legitimizing inclusion: Psychological interventions increase support for minority inclusion in the political game, but less so during wartime6
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 politics of pooling risk: People want to help the vulnerable by involving the government in healthcare6
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Make It Great Again: The Relationship Between Populist Attitudes and Nostalgia5
Political Ideology in Early Childhood: Making the Case for Studying Young Children in Political Psychology5
Guilt, shame, and antiwar action in an authoritarian country at war5
Left–right political orientations are not systematically related to conspiracism5
How people update their beliefs about climate change: An experimental investigation of the optimistic update bias and how to reduce it5
Compensating personal climate response inefficacy with political conservatism?5
Social and Cognitive Aspects of the Vulnerability to Political Misinformation5
The relationship between political procedural justice and attitudes toward the political system: A meta‐analysis5
Coming out as Roma. Minority stress, multisystemic resilience, and identity among Roma people in Germany5
Why can't we be friends? Untangling conjoined polarization in America4
Social mobility beliefs and attitudes toward redistribution: Potential explanatory mechanisms4
Projection in Politicians' Perceptions of Public Opinion4
How Prominent Cases of Sexual Harassment Influence Public Opinion Across Countries: The Cases of Cosby, Trump, and Weinstein4
Ingroup Bias, Partisanship, and Gendered Voting4
Dealing with uncertainty and cognitive biases in international politics4
Can we keep hope alive?Review of Oded AdomiLeshem's Hope amidst conflict: Philosophical and psychological explorations (Oxford University Press, 2024) 204 pp.4
Attitude change by facilitating choice: Experimentally evaluating a social identity‐based intervention to nativist populist rhetoric4
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Core Values and Priming Effects in Electoral Campaigns4
Introducing a novel method to support polarized citizens to sustain political dialogue4
COVID‐19 Vaccination Acceptance: A Case of Interplay Between Political and Health Dimensions4
“Not as bad as I thought”: Economic attitudes and motivated reasoning in coalition governments4
Identity fusion and support for political authoritarianism: Lessons from the U.S. insurrection of 20214
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Mass political murder: What and where is the hate?4
The association between perceived injustice and political trust: Testing a dual‐pathway model through anger and patriotism across four countries4
Socioeconomic status self‐deception as a way to perpetuate classist societies4
Coping with Cross‐Pressures: The Seamless Garment in Catholic Political Behavior4
Looking for relief: Developing and testing the emotion‐regulation explanation of selective exposure to political information4
Integrating insights into radicalization: A text‐mining systematic review4
Extraversion Probably Does Not Cause Political Participation. Evidence from Two Genetically Informed Designs4
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The role of change in the relationships among decent work, political cynicism and voter turnout3
Youth Political Mobilization: Violence, Intimidation, and Patronage in Zimbabwe3
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
Closing the Solidarity Gap? How Ethnic Diversity Alters Who We Are Willing to Support3
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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
Migration discourses from the radical right: Mapping and testing potential for political mobilization3
Australia Day or Invasion Day? Perspectives on the Continuing Impact of Colonialism Underlies Public Contestations Around Australia's National Day3
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A critical evaluation and research agenda for the study of psychological dispositions and political attitudes3
Temporal comparisons shape system justification processes3
Crowding at the ballot box: Germ aversion and voting methods in the 2020 U.S. general election3
All we need is love? Irreconcilable political incongruence in families after the 2019 social unrest in Hong Kong3
Ideology shapes evaluation of history within the general population3
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Reaching across the aisle: Committed and optimistic citizens support a non‐preferred presidency and cooperate with electoral winners3
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The integration paradox: Does awareness of the extent of ethno‐racial discrimination increase reports of discrimination?2
All you'll feel is doom and gloom: Multiple perspectives on the associations between economic anxiety and conspiracy beliefs2
Trusting others in a divided country: The determinants of social trust in South Africa2
Diversity politics: The effects of elite rhetoric and issue racialization on support for descriptive representation2
Hooked on a Feeling: Russia's Annexation of Crimea Through the Lens of Emotion2
Valence of immigration news, perceived threat, and support for restrictive immigration policy: A multilevel study across 26 countries2
Stability of National‐Identity Content: Level, Predictors, and Implications2
Tune in to the prebunking network! Development and validation of six inoculation videos that prebunk manipulation tactics and logical fallacies in misinformation2
Citizenship in social and political psychology: A relational and future‐oriented framework for the study of everyday citizenship practice2
Collective action among the extremes? Relations between political ideology, political extremism, emotions, and collective action2
Moral portraits: Understanding world leaders with moral foundations theory2
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You Know You're Right: How Intellectual Humility Decreases Political Hostility2
The dual impact of meritocracy and denial of gender discrimination in political candidacy2
Emotional Reactions toCOVID‐19 Projections and Consequences for Protective Policies and Personal Behavior2
How collective punishment harm intergroup relations through ingroup homogeneity, perceived fairness, and counter‐collective action: A registered report2
The Dependency–Counterdependency Dynamic: Interactive Effects of System Justification and Power‐Distance Orientation on Radicalization against the Political System2
Culture, self, and politics: The effect of interdependent self‐construal on system justification2
Filling in the Gaps: False Memories and Partisan Bias2
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Online political adverts: The effect of disclosures and opportunities for clandestine campaigning2
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Identifying different ‘types’ of participants in the Chilean student movement: A latent transition analysis of collective action intentions, social class and movement identification2
Abortion Attitudes: An Overview of Demographic and Ideological Differences2
We love, they hate: Emotions in affective polarization and how partisans may use them2
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Yesterday, all our troubles seemed so far away—(Re)conceptualizing nostalgic deprivation as a predictor for radical‐right support2
Collective post‐traumatic growth: Validating and measuring positive change in the collective self among victims of sexual violence2
Partisan schadenfreude and candidate cruelty2
What explains elite affective polarization? Evidence from Canadian politicians2
Bonding through adversity: Effects of Brexit and COVID‐19 lockdown on identity fusion and pro‐group behavior2
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Ready or not. National identity, vote choice, and mass media: Evidence from Germany2
Different images of God predict religious nationalism among Christians1
Intergroup political theater: Transforming social representations among peace leaders in contested territories1
Prosocial behavior amid violence: The deservingness heuristic and solidarity with victims1
What personality traits do citizens want politicians to have? Observational and experimental evidence of citizens' preferences in three countries1
Responsibility for impairment shapes the perceived deservingness of welfare claimants with disabilities1
Benevolent authority beliefs, democratic values, and public support: A comparative study of China and Japan1
The more you want to fit in, the more similar you become: How others' ideologies relate to our own intergroup attitudes1
A dual‐process perspective on classism. Right‐wing authoritarianism buffers the relationship between social dominance orientation and classism in Poland1
National identification weakens, and territorial identification strengthens, the relationship between masculine honor values and the justification of practices of connivance with the mafia1
Matthew Bowman, Christian: The Politics of a Word in America1
Seeing red: How gerrymandering emotionally mobilizes turnout1
Election results can decrease intergroup threat and through that positively affect intergroup relations1
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Depolarization and its discontents: Experimental evidence on affective polarization and willingness to confront racism and misinformation from two online workshops1
Dual superordinate identities in Sweden's vulnerable neighborhoods: Stronger local and national identities associated with increases in institutional and interpersonal trust1
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
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Trump Voters' social position in U.S. Society: Uniqueness and radical‐right support1
The construction of threatening Others: Discourses and agendas of the Brazilian and German radical right1
The limits of Brexit prejudice1
Down But Not Yet Out: Depression, Political Efficacy, and Voting1
Progovernment militias, identity leadership, and ethnic defection: Evidence from Israel's recruitment of the South Lebanese Army1
The curvilinear effects of objective and subjective socioeconomic status on economic conservatism and welfare policy support among middle‐class Americans1
Backlash among the dominant: Assessing support for elitism in four European countries1
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Lay theories of place effects1
The Many Guises of Populism and Crisis: Introduction to the Special Issue on Populism and Global Crises1
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The affective nexus between refugees and terrorism: A panel study on how social media use shapes negative attitudes toward refugees1
Reducing Political Dehumanization by Pairing Facts With Personal Experiences1
The Intergenerational Transmission of Party Preferences in Multiparty Contexts: Examining Parental Socialization Processes in the Netherlands1
Helping Ukrainian war refugees in Poland: The emergence of a political assemblage1
Common Sense as a Political Weapon: Populism, Science Skepticism, and Global Crisis‐Solving Motivations1
“Dissatisfied democrats, but democrats nonetheless?” Unraveling the democratic paradox between populism and preference for alternative political systems1
Longitudinal co‐occurrence of adolescent mental health difficulties and democratic citizenship in early adulthood1
Navigating identity dilemmas in protest: Everyday discursive strategies of engagement in the Catalan independence movement1
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
Affective polarization within parties1
Russia's @RT_Com Twitter campaign supporting the 2022 Ukraine invasion: A rhetorical analysis1
Out‐party, out of luck: Partisan biases in public support for due process in corruption investigations1
Parochial Altruism and Political Ideology1
Stressed Out: The Missing Influence of Stress Arousal in Emotion's Role in Political Decision‐Making1
On the Misrecognition of Identity: Muslims' Everyday Experiences in Scotland1
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Perceived threat, compassion, and public evaluations toward refugees1
John T.Jost'sLeft & Right: The Psychological Significance of a Political Distinction. New York: Oxford University Press; 20211
Does System Justification Promote Establishment Voting? Mainstream Politics in France, Germany, and the United Kingdom1
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Gender Gap in Parental Leave Intentions: Evidence from 37 Countries1
“We had a lot of fun”: Psychological rewards of white supremacy group membership1
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