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Papers

(The TQCC of Political Psychology is 4. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
The impact of situational context and dispositions on costly signals of reassurance: Experimental evidence from Taiwan	68
Bearing the burden of peace: Intergroup attribution bias and public support for peace provisions	56
Ostracism as a threat to modern democracies: Evidence from 11 European countries	42
The Role of Personal Centrality of Ingroup Victimhood in Intergroup Relations and Political Agenda in Northern Ireland	33
Trust in action: Cooperation, information, and social policy preferences	32
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 parliament	32
Politicization of a Pathogen: A Prospective Longitudinal Study of COVID‐19 Responses in a Nationally Representative U.S. Sample	27
Fact‐checking election‐campaign misinformation: Impacts on noncommitted voters' feelings and behavior	26
Moral framing and referendum politics: Navigating the empathy battlefield	25
Urban Colombian youths' perspectives on the armed conflict and possibilities for ways forward	22
Political intolerance in comprehensive welfare states: Evidence from Sweden	22
Not in the mood for party: Symptoms of depression reduce the weight of partisanship on vote choice	21
Collective candidacies and mandates in Brazil: Recasting democratic mediation	21
Determinants of belief in conspiracy theories about the war in Ukraine among youth	19
The Role of Race in Political Attitudes Among the Religiously Unaffiliated	19
Examining the correspondence between political ideology and gun policy attitudes among Black and White people in the United States	18
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The network dynamics of antiprejudice norms: A field experiment testing antiprejudice interventions in real groups	16
The Relative Importance of Self‐Focused and Society‐Focused Values in Explaining Political Attitudes in Europe	16
Accounting for the association between socioeconomic status and youth political participation: A twin family study	16
From cognitive coherence to political polarization: A data‐driven agent‐based model of belief change	16
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“Trading places”: Do individual status changes reduce misattributions of poverty?	15
Motivated to Forgive? Partisan Scandals and Party Supporters	14

Sociopolitical consequences of COVID‐19 in the Americas, Europe, and Asia: A multilevel, multicountry investigation of risk perceptions and support for antidemocratic practices	14
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A cultural theory of the culture wars	13
European identity's effect on immigration attitudes: Testing the predictions of the common Ingroup identity model versus ingroup projection model	13
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 Conflict	13
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Implicit motives and conflict intensity: A meta‐analysis of the roles of power and affiliation	13
Adult belief change: New theoretical and empirical perspectives. Special issue introduction	13
Strengthening national identities in Africa? Analyzing the impact of Ghana's National Service Scheme	12
Who is building peace? A latent class analysis of youth peacebuilders in a conflict‐affected setting	12
Love him for the enemies he has made: Signaling by inflammatory pro‐gun rhetoric	12
Do emotions drive the link between winning and satisfaction with democracy? Leveraging the Super Bowl, the World Cup, and The Lion King	12
Psychological dispositions and political attitudes in a hyperpartisan context	12
The different sides of the housing crisis in Portugal: A contribution to building inclusive, fair, and effective solutions	12
How does the geography of surveillance affect collective action?	12
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 N	12
Seeing the same evidence differently: Biased assimilation and moral conviction in public evaluations of scientific expertise	11
Political discrimination in hiring: Evidence from a large field experiment	11
Similar moral values, different agendas: U.S. politicians' use of moral language is issue‐specific	11
From civic roots to voting booths: Gendered pathways from adolescent motivation to electoral participation in adulthood	10
Are rules made to be broken? Conspiracy exposure promotes aggressive behavior	10
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 Scientists	10
From Gaming to Hating: Extreme‐Right Ideological Indoctrination and Mobilization for Violence of Children on Online Gaming Platforms	9
Waking up to politics: How sleep quality relates to political participation	9
Psychological insights on the fans' boycott of the 2022 FIFA World Cup	9
Perceiving as biased but nevertheless persuaded? Effects of fact–checking news delivered by partisan media	9
The authoritarian personality model of punitiveness is inconsistent in predicting punishment preferences: A sentencing vignette study in a representative sample from six countries	9
Asymmetry in political polarization at multiple levels of bias	9
Corruption erodes people's beliefs in morality and justice	8
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Projection in the Face of Centrism: Voter Inferences About Candidates' Party Affiliation in Low‐Information Contexts	8
From “what” and “when” to “how” and “why”: Moving the study of psychological dispositions and political preferences forward	8
Neoliberalism and governmental and individual responses to the COVID‐19 pandemic: A cross‐national analysis	8
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From bias to balance: Testing the effect of feedback on ideological bias expression. A registered report	8
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A person by place approach to examining prototypes of climate change impacts and their relation to pro‐environmental attitudes and behavioral intentions	7
Voting at 16? 16–17‐Year‐Old Germans Vote as Correctly as Adults	7
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
It seems tense: The influence of loneliness on perceived social conflict and societal threats	7
Integration and urban citizenship: A social‐psychological approach to refugee integration through active constructions of place attachment to the city	7
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Appeals to Consensus and Partisan Politics in Parliamentary Discourse on the Pandemic	7
Intellectual Humility and Political Polarization: An Exploration of Social Networks, Attitudes, and Affect	7
The psychology of political attitudinal volatility	7
“I trust you, but I'm scared!” Attitudinal and emotional drivers of support for restrictive interventions during crises	7
Critical citizens and discontented citizens: Education, perceptions of fairness, and support for anti‐COVID measures in China	7
Distrustful Complacency and the COVID‐19 Vaccine: How Concern and Political Trust Interact to Affect Vaccine Hesitancy	6
The Religious Communication Approach and Political Behavior	6

The Interplay Between Explicit and Implicit Right‐Wing Populism in Germany and Switzerland	6
Gender and Attitudes Towards a Peace Agreement in Situations of Intractable Conflict: The Case of the Jewish‐Israeli Society	6
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In the shadow of September 11: The roots and ramifications of anti‐Muslim attitudes in the United States	6
False consensus beliefs and populist attitudes	6
The politics of pooling risk: People want to help the vulnerable by involving the government in healthcare	6
Left–right political orientations are not systematically related to conspiracism	6
How many words? Precision‐based sample sizes for assessment at‐a‐distance	6
Social justice orientations: Exploring their impact on poverty attributions and support for social protection	6
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(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
Debunking misinformation on critical race theory	6
Coming out as Roma. Minority stress, multisystemic resilience, and identity among Roma people in Germany	5
Extraversion Probably Does Not Cause Political Participation. Evidence from Two Genetically Informed Designs	5
Ideological differences in moral concern reflect circle expansion, not inversion	5
Social contact and ethnic identity: Experimental evidence from West Africa	5
Legitimizing inclusion: Psychological interventions increase support for minority inclusion in the political game, but less so during wartime	5
Class, genes, and rationality: A gene–environment interaction approach to ideology	5
How people update their beliefs about climate change: An experimental investigation of the optimistic update bias and how to reduce it	5
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Can we keep hope alive?Review of Oded AdomiLeshem's Hope amidst conflict: Philosophical and psychological explorations (Oxford University Press, 2024) 204 pp.	5
Puncturing the Knowledge Illusion Does Not Reduce Policy and Political Extremism: Evidence From a Replication and Extension	5
Emotion (dys)regulation and national narcissism	5
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 attacks	5
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Identity fusion and support for political authoritarianism: Lessons from the U.S. insurrection of 2021	5
“Put a Little Love in Your Heart”: Acceptance of Paternalistic and Ally Political Discourses Both Predict Pro‐Roma Solidarity Intentions Through Moral Inclusion	5
Weapons of mass division: Sputnik Latvia's Russophobia narratives and testing the rejection‐identification model in Russian speakers in Latvia	5
Group identification and contribution guilt predict political consumerism	5
When virtues are weaponized: Moral superiority aggravates outgroup dehumanization	4
Compensating personal climate response inefficacy with political conservatism?	4
Why can't we be friends? Untangling conjoined polarization in America	4
Guilt, shame, and antiwar action in an authoritarian country at war	4
Core Values and Priming Effects in Electoral Campaigns	4
Mass political murder: What and where is the hate?	4
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Political Ideology in Early Childhood: Making the Case for Studying Young Children in Political Psychology	4
Integrating insights into radicalization: A text‐mining systematic review	4
Rethinking the link between cognitive reflection and susceptibility to political misinformation: Distinguishing hard from soft news	4
Social mobility beliefs and attitudes toward redistribution: Potential explanatory mechanisms	4
Dealing with uncertainty and cognitive biases in international politics	4
Values in politics: Exploring alignment between value salience in political texts, value importance in representative population samples, and political engagement	4
Motivated causal judgments and responsibility for civilian casualties in military conflicts	4
The association between perceived injustice and political trust: Testing a dual‐pathway model through anger and patriotism across four countries	4
Zone‐flooding, public confusion, and signal detection theory: A theoretical framework and registered report	4
The relationship between political procedural justice and attitudes toward the political system: A meta‐analysis	4
Looking for relief: Developing and testing the emotion‐regulation explanation of selective exposure to political information	4
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Projection in Politicians' Perceptions of Public Opinion	4
Attitude change by facilitating choice: Experimentally evaluating a social identity‐based intervention to nativist populist rhetoric	4