Political Psychology

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 2022-05-01 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
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Adult belief change: New theoretical and empirical perspectives. Special issue introduction19
From cognitive coherence to political polarization: A data‐driven agent‐based model of belief change18
The Relative Importance of Self‐Focused and Society‐Focused Values in Explaining Political Attitudes in Europe18
European identity's effect on immigration attitudes: Testing the predictions of the common Ingroup identity model versus ingroup projection model16
Collective Narcissism as a Basis for Nationalism16
Accounting for the association between socioeconomic status and youth political participation: A twin family study16
“Trading places”: Do individual status changes reduce misattributions of poverty?15
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
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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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
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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
Who is building peace? A latent class analysis of youth peacebuilders in a conflict‐affected setting12
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
Psychological insights on the fans' boycott of the 2022 FIFA World Cup11
Young and informed? Adolescents' perceptions of ‘left’ and ‘right’11
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
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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
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
Neoliberalism and governmental and individual responses to the COVID‐19 pandemic: A cross‐national analysis9
The psychology of political attitudinal volatility9
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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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
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
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
Debunking misinformation on critical race theory6
Emotion (dys)regulation and national narcissism6
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Social contact and ethnic identity: Experimental evidence from West Africa6
Puncturing the Knowledge Illusion Does Not Reduce Policy and Political Extremism: Evidence From a Replication and Extension6
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
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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
Left–right political orientations are not systematically related to conspiracism6
Social justice orientations: Exploring their impact on poverty attributions and support for social protection6
Class, genes, and rationality: A gene–environment interaction approach to ideology6
Moralizing the COVID ‐19 Pandemic: Self‐Interest Predicts Moral Condemnation of Other's Compliance6
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
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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
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