OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Political Psychology is 5. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
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	93
Bearing the burden of peace: Intergroup attribution bias and public support for peace provisions	76
Fact‐checking election‐campaign misinformation: Impacts on noncommitted voters' feelings and behavior	62
Ostracism as a threat to modern democracies: Evidence from 11 European countries	46
The impact of situational context and dispositions on costly signals of reassurance: Experimental evidence from Taiwan	43
Politicization of a Pathogen: A Prospective Longitudinal Study of COVID‐19 Responses in a Nationally Representative U.S. Sample	38
Moral framing and referendum politics: Navigating the empathy battlefield	38
Trust in action: Cooperation, information, and social policy preferences	33
The Role of Personal Centrality of Ingroup Victimhood in Intergroup Relations and Political Agenda in Northern Ireland	32
The Role of Race in Political Attitudes Among the Religiously Unaffiliated	31
The Making of Radical‐Right Voters: Persuasion and Contrast Effects in a Dynamic Political Context	29
Collective candidacies and mandates in Brazil: Recasting democratic mediation	29
Populism and Layers of Social Belonging: Support of Populist Parties in Europe	29
Not in the mood for party: Symptoms of depression reduce the weight of partisanship on vote choice	28
Hot Populism? Affective Responses to Antiestablishment Rhetoric	26
Political intolerance in comprehensive welfare states: Evidence from Sweden	26
Examining the correspondence between political ideology and gun policy attitudes among Black and White people in the United States	25
Economic Distress and Populism: Examining the Role of Identity Threat and Feelings of Social Exclusion	25
Determinants of belief in conspiracy theories about the war in Ukraine among youth	23
“Trading places”: Do individual status changes reduce misattributions of poverty?	22
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Urban Colombian youths' perspectives on the armed conflict and possibilities for ways forward	22
Motivated to Forgive? Partisan Scandals and Party Supporters	21
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The network dynamics of antiprejudice norms: A field experiment testing antiprejudice interventions in real groups	20

Are Newsjunkies More Likely to Vote? Intrinsic Need for Orientation and Voter Registration, Intention to Vote, and Voter Conscientiousness	19
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	19
Sociopolitical consequences of COVID‐19 in the Americas, Europe, and Asia: A multilevel, multicountry investigation of risk perceptions and support for antidemocratic practices	18
From cognitive coherence to political polarization: A data‐driven agent‐based model of belief change	18
European identity's effect on immigration attitudes: Testing the predictions of the common Ingroup identity model versus ingroup projection model	17
The Relative Importance of Self‐Focused and Society‐Focused Values in Explaining Political Attitudes in Europe	15
Adult belief change: New theoretical and empirical perspectives. Special issue introduction	15
A cultural theory of the culture wars	15
Accounting for the association between socioeconomic status and youth political participation: A twin family study	15
Female Politicians as Climate Fools: Intertextual and Multimodal Constructions of Misogyny Disguised as Humor in Political Communication	14
Collective Narcissism as a Basis for Nationalism	14
Psychological dispositions and political attitudes in a hyperpartisan context	13
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	13
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Are rules made to be broken? Conspiracy exposure promotes aggressive behavior	12
Love him for the enemies he has made: Signaling by inflammatory pro‐gun rhetoric	12
Personality and the Policy Positions of Politicians	12
Does Analytic Thinking Insulate Against Pro‐Kremlin Disinformation? Evidence From Ukraine	12
The different sides of the housing crisis in Portugal: A contribution to building inclusive, fair, and effective solutions	12
Who is building peace? A latent class analysis of youth peacebuilders in a conflict‐affected setting	12
Strengthening national identities in Africa? Analyzing the impact of Ghana's National Service Scheme	12
How does the geography of surveillance affect collective action?	12
Asymmetry in political polarization at multiple levels of bias	11
Young and informed? Adolescents' perceptions of ‘left’ and ‘right’	11
The authoritarian personality model of punitiveness is inconsistent in predicting punishment preferences: A sentencing vignette study in a representative sample from six countries	11
From Gaming to Hating: Extreme‐Right Ideological Indoctrination and Mobilization for Violence of Children on Online Gaming Platforms	11
Perceiving as biased but nevertheless persuaded? Effects of fact–checking news delivered by partisan media	11
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
Psychological insights on the fans' boycott of the 2022 FIFA World Cup	10
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Projection in the Face of Centrism: Voter Inferences About Candidates' Party Affiliation in Low‐Information Contexts	9
From “what” and “when” to “how” and “why”: Moving the study of psychological dispositions and political preferences forward	9
From bias to balance: Testing the effect of feedback on ideological bias expression. A registered report	9
Neoliberalism and governmental and individual responses to the COVID‐19 pandemic: A cross‐national analysis	9
Integration and urban citizenship: A social‐psychological approach to refugee integration through active constructions of place attachment to the city	9
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The psychology of political attitudinal volatility	8
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Overestimating Reported Prejudice Causes Democrats to Believe Disadvantaged Groups Are Less Electable	8
Fear and Loathing of Wall Street: Political Liberalism, Uncertainty, and Threat Management in a Dangerous Economic World	8
It seems tense: The influence of loneliness on perceived social conflict and societal threats	8
Intellectual Humility and Political Polarization: An Exploration of Social Networks, Attitudes, and Affect	8
What Are You Afraid of? Authoritarianism, Terrorism, and Threat	8
Voting at 16? 16–17‐Year‐Old Germans Vote as Correctly as Adults	8
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Appeals to Consensus and Partisan Politics in Parliamentary Discourse on the Pandemic	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
Moralizing the COVID ‐19 Pandemic: Self‐Interest Predicts Moral Condemnation of Other's Compliance	7
How many words? Precision‐based sample sizes for assessment at‐a‐distance	7
“I trust you, but I'm scared!” Attitudinal and emotional drivers of support for restrictive interventions during crises	7

The Religious Communication Approach and Political Behavior	7
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Critical citizens and discontented citizens: Education, perceptions of fairness, and support for anti‐COVID measures in China	7
False consensus beliefs and populist attitudes	7
In the shadow of September 11: The roots and ramifications of anti‐Muslim attitudes in the United States	7
Distrustful Complacency and the COVID‐19 Vaccine: How Concern and Political Trust Interact to Affect Vaccine Hesitancy	7
Social justice orientations: Exploring their impact on poverty attributions and support for social protection	7
Legitimizing inclusion: Psychological interventions increase support for minority inclusion in the political game, but less so during wartime	6
Debunking misinformation on critical race theory	6
Social contact and ethnic identity: Experimental evidence from West Africa	6
(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
Gender and Attitudes Towards a Peace Agreement in Situations of Intractable Conflict: The Case of the Jewish‐Israeli Society	6
Puncturing the Knowledge Illusion Does Not Reduce Policy and Political Extremism: Evidence From a Replication and Extension	6
Emotion (dys)regulation and national narcissism	6
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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	6
Weapons of mass division: Sputnik Latvia's Russophobia narratives and testing the rejection‐identification model in Russian speakers in Latvia	5
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“Put a Little Love in Your Heart”: Acceptance of Paternalistic and Ally Political Discourses Both Predict Pro‐Roma Solidarity Intentions Through Moral Inclusion	5
Guilt, shame, and antiwar action in an authoritarian country at war	5
Political Ideology in Early Childhood: Making the Case for Studying Young Children in Political Psychology	5
Make It Great Again: The Relationship Between Populist Attitudes and Nostalgia	5
Left–right political orientations are not systematically related to conspiracism	5
Class, genes, and rationality: A gene–environment interaction approach to ideology	5
Why can't we be friends? Untangling conjoined polarization in America	5
Coming out as Roma. Minority stress, multisystemic resilience, and identity among Roma people in Germany	5
Integrating insights into radicalization: A text‐mining systematic review	5
Can we keep hope alive?Review of Oded AdomiLeshem's Hope amidst conflict: Philosophical and psychological explorations (Oxford University Press, 2024) 204 pp.	5
MOBILISE: A Higher‐Order Integration of Collective Action Research to Address Global Challenges	5
The politics of pooling risk: People want to help the vulnerable by involving the government in healthcare	5
The Interplay Between Explicit and Implicit Right‐Wing Populism in Germany and Switzerland	5
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 it	5
Extraversion Probably Does Not Cause Political Participation. Evidence from Two Genetically Informed Designs	5