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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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The impact of situational context and dispositions on costly signals of reassurance: Experimental evidence from Taiwan	72
Bearing the burden of peace: Intergroup attribution bias and public support for peace provisions	63
Fact‐checking election‐campaign misinformation: Impacts on noncommitted voters' feelings and behavior	47
Trust in action: Cooperation, information, and social policy preferences	36
Politicization of a Pathogen: A Prospective Longitudinal Study of COVID‐19 Responses in a Nationally Representative U.S. Sample	33
The Role of Personal Centrality of Ingroup Victimhood in Intergroup Relations and Political Agenda in Northern Ireland	32
Ostracism as a threat to modern democracies: Evidence from 11 European countries	31
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	30
Moral framing and referendum politics: Navigating the empathy battlefield	25
Urban Colombian youths' perspectives on the armed conflict and possibilities for ways forward	24
Examining the correspondence between political ideology and gun policy attitudes among Black and White people in the United States	23
Not in the mood for party: Symptoms of depression reduce the weight of partisanship on vote choice	23
Political intolerance in comprehensive welfare states: Evidence from Sweden	20
Collective candidacies and mandates in Brazil: Recasting democratic mediation	20
More than a partisan pandemic: Worldview and COVID ‐19 response in the United States	19
Determinants of belief in conspiracy theories about the war in Ukraine among youth	18
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The Relative Importance of Self‐Focused and Society‐Focused Values in Explaining Political Attitudes in Europe	17
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The network dynamics of antiprejudice norms: A field experiment testing antiprejudice interventions in real groups	17
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“Trading places”: Do individual status changes reduce misattributions of poverty?	16
European identity's effect on immigration attitudes: Testing the predictions of the common Ingroup identity model versus ingroup projection model	16
Implicit motives and conflict intensity: A meta‐analysis of the roles of power and affiliation	15

Motivated to Forgive? Partisan Scandals and Party Supporters	15
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	15
Accounting for the association between socioeconomic status and youth political participation: A twin family study	15
Adult belief change: New theoretical and empirical perspectives. Special issue introduction	15
Sociopolitical consequences of COVID‐19 in the Americas, Europe, and Asia: A multilevel, multicountry investigation of risk perceptions and support for antidemocratic practices	14
From cognitive coherence to political polarization: A data‐driven agent‐based model of belief change	14
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	14
A cultural theory of the culture wars	14
Psychological dispositions and political attitudes in a hyperpartisan context	13
Political discrimination in hiring: Evidence from a large field experiment	13
The different sides of the housing crisis in Portugal: A contribution to building inclusive, fair, and effective solutions	12
Seeing the same evidence differently: Biased assimilation and moral conviction in public evaluations of scientific expertise	12
Strengthening national identities in Africa? Analyzing the impact of Ghana's National Service Scheme	12
Similar moral values, different agendas: U.S. politicians' use of moral language is issue‐specific	12
How does the geography of surveillance affect collective action?	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	11
Are rules made to be broken? Conspiracy exposure promotes aggressive behavior	11
Who is building peace? A latent class analysis of youth peacebuilders in a conflict‐affected setting	11
Waking up to politics: How sleep quality relates to political participation	10
From Gaming to Hating: Extreme‐Right Ideological Indoctrination and Mobilization for Violence of Children on Online Gaming Platforms	10
Asymmetry in political polarization at multiple levels of bias	10
Psychological insights on the fans' boycott of the 2022 FIFA World Cup	10
From civic roots to voting booths: Gendered pathways from adolescent motivation to electoral participation in adulthood	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
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The authoritarian personality model of punitiveness is inconsistent in predicting punishment preferences: A sentencing vignette study in a representative sample from six countries	9
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Generalized loss of trust following political betrayal: Cross‐country evidence in the context of elections	9
Neoliberalism and governmental and individual responses to the COVID‐19 pandemic: A cross‐national analysis	9
Perceiving as biased but nevertheless persuaded? Effects of fact–checking news delivered by partisan media	9
Is sortition the ideal? Examining public reactions to climate assemblies	8
Intellectual Humility and Political Polarization: An Exploration of Social Networks, Attitudes, and Affect	8
A person by place approach to examining prototypes of climate change impacts and their relation to pro‐environmental attitudes and behavioral intentions	8
From “what” and “when” to “how” and “why”: Moving the study of psychological dispositions and political preferences forward	8
The psychology of political attitudinal volatility	8
From bias to balance: Testing the effect of feedback on ideological bias expression. A registered report	8
It seems tense: The influence of loneliness on perceived social conflict and societal threats	8
Integration and urban citizenship: A social‐psychological approach to refugee integration through active constructions of place attachment to the city	8
Corruption erodes people's beliefs in morality and justice	8
Voting at 16? 16–17‐Year‐Old Germans Vote as Correctly as Adults	8
“I trust you, but I'm scared!” Attitudinal and emotional drivers of support for restrictive interventions during crises	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
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Critical citizens and discontented citizens: Education, perceptions of fairness, and support for anti‐COVID measures in China	7
How many words? Precision‐based sample sizes for assessment at‐a‐distance	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

Social justice orientations: Exploring their impact on poverty attributions and support for social protection	7
False consensus beliefs and populist attitudes	7
“Put a Little Love in Your Heart”: Acceptance of Paternalistic and Ally Political Discourses Both Predict Pro‐Roma Solidarity Intentions Through Moral Inclusion	6
Class, genes, and rationality: A gene–environment interaction approach to ideology	6
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Social contact and ethnic identity: Experimental evidence from West Africa	6
Group identification and contribution guilt predict political consumerism	6
Emotion (dys)regulation and national narcissism	6
Legitimizing inclusion: Psychological interventions increase support for minority inclusion in the political game, but less so during wartime	6
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Debunking misinformation on critical race theory	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
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
Appeals to Consensus and Partisan Politics in Parliamentary Discourse on the Pandemic	6
The Interplay Between Explicit and Implicit Right‐Wing Populism in Germany and Switzerland	6
The politics of pooling risk: People want to help the vulnerable by involving the government in healthcare	6
Weapons of mass division: Sputnik Latvia's Russophobia narratives and testing the rejection‐identification model in Russian speakers in Latvia	6
Can we keep hope alive?Review of Oded AdomiLeshem's Hope amidst conflict: Philosophical and psychological explorations (Oxford University Press, 2024) 204 pp.	5
Identity fusion and support for political authoritarianism: Lessons from the U.S. insurrection of 2021	5
Guilt, shame, and antiwar action in an authoritarian country at war	5
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Puncturing the Knowledge Illusion Does Not Reduce Policy and Political Extremism: Evidence From a Replication and Extension	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
Left–right political orientations are not systematically related to conspiracism	5
The relationship between political procedural justice and attitudes toward the political system: A meta‐analysis	5
Political Ideology in Early Childhood: Making the Case for Studying Young Children in Political Psychology	5
Ideological differences in moral concern reflect circle expansion, not inversion	5
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Rethinking the link between cognitive reflection and susceptibility to political misinformation: Distinguishing hard from soft news	5
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Integrating insights into radicalization: A text‐mining systematic review	5
When virtues are weaponized: Moral superiority aggravates outgroup dehumanization	5
Why can't we be friends? Untangling conjoined polarization in America	5
Extraversion Probably Does Not Cause Political Participation. Evidence from Two Genetically Informed Designs	5
Coming out as Roma. Minority stress, multisystemic resilience, and identity among Roma people in Germany	5
Zone‐flooding, public confusion, and signal detection theory: A theoretical framework and registered report	5