Political Psychology

Papers
(The TQCC of Political Psychology is 6. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)
ArticleCitations
The Paranoid Style in American Politics Revisited: An Ideological Asymmetry in Conspiratorial Thinking125
Hate Speech Epidemic. The Dynamic Effects of Derogatory Language on Intergroup Relations and Political Radicalization108
Harnessing Shared Identities to Mobilize Resilient Responses to the COVID‐19 Pandemic63
When and How Different Motives Can Drive Motivated Political Reasoning49
How Emotional Are Populists Really? Factors Explaining Emotional Appeals in the Communication of Political Parties47
Conspiracy Theories and Institutional Trust: Examining the Role of Uncertainty Avoidance and Active Social Media Use46
Investigating the Links Between Cultural Values and Belief in Conspiracy Theories: The Key Roles of Collectivism and Masculinity45
The Volatility of Collective Action: Theoretical Analysis and Empirical Data42
Examining the Left‐Right Divide Through the Lens of a Global Crisis: Ideological Differences and Their Implications for Responses to the COVID‐19 Pandemic40
The Language of Pandemic Leaderships: Mapping Political Rhetoric During the COVID‐19 Outbreak35
Psychological Correlates of Populist Attitudes35
Reducing Affective Polarization: Warm Group Relations or Policy Compromise?31
Attitudinal and Emotional Consequences of Islamist Terrorism. Evidence from the Berlin Attack27
Consequences of Economic Inequality for the Social and Political Vitality of Society: A Social Identity Analysis26
Populist Gullibility: Conspiracy Theories, News Credibility, Bullshit Receptivity, and Paranormal Belief26
Nationalism, Patriotism, and Support for the European Union25
“Everybody Needs to Do Their Part, So We Can Get This Under Control.” Reactions to the Norwegian Government Meta‐Narratives on COVID‐19 Measures23
The Influence of Identity Salience on Framing Effectiveness: An Experiment21
The Political Psychology of COVID‐1921
The Behavioral Immune System Shapes Partisan Preferences in Modern Democracies: Disgust Sensitivity Predicts Voting for Socially Conservative Parties21
Personal and Political: Post‐Traumatic Stress Through the Lens of Social Identity, Power, and Politics21
Targeting Ontological Security: Information Warfare in the Modern Age21
Predictors of Political Violence Outcomes among Young People: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis20
Power to the People: The Hidden Link Between Support for Direct Democracy and Belief in Conspiracy Theories20
MOBILISE: A Higher‐Order Integration of Collective Action Research to Address Global Challenges19
United We Stand, Divided We Fall: Sociopolitical Predictors of Physical Distancing and Hand Hygiene During the COVID‐19 Pandemic19
Australasian Public Awareness and Belief in Conspiracy Theories: Motivational Correlates19
War Against COVID‐19: How Is National Identification Linked With the Adoption of Disease‐Preventive Behaviors in China and the United States?18
Abortion Attitudes: An Overview of Demographic and Ideological Differences18
Antiwomen But Proquota: Disaggregating Sexism and Support for Gender Quota Policies17
Human and Global Identities: Different Prototypical Meanings of All‐Inclusive Identities15
The Return of Ethnocentrism15
Social Cure Processes Help Lower Intergroup Anxiety Among Neighborhood Residents15
Common Sense as a Political Weapon: Populism, Science Skepticism, and Global Crisis‐Solving Motivations14
On the Relation Between Religiosity and the Endorsement of Conspiracy Theories: The Role of Political Orientation14
Facing a Common Human Fate: Relating Global Identity and Climate Change Mitigation14
Social and Cognitive Aspects of the Vulnerability to Political Misinformation14
Drifting Further Apart? How Exposure to Media Portrayals of Muslims Affects Attitude Polarization13
Exposure and Aversion to Human Transmissible Diseases Predict Conservative Ideological and Partisan Preferences13
Moral Polarization Predicts Support for Authoritarian and Progressive Strong Leaders via the Perceived Breakdown of Society13
Moralizing the COVID‐19 Pandemic: Self‐Interest Predicts Moral Condemnation of Other's Compliance, Distancing, and Vaccination13
Down But Not Yet Out: Depression, Political Efficacy, and Voting12
When Left Is Right and Right Is Left: The Psychological Correlates of Political Ideology in China12
Fear, Hope, and COVID‐19: Emotional Elite Rhetoric and Its Impact on the Public During the First Wave of the COVID‐19 Pandemic12
Morbid Polarization: Exposure to COVID‐19 and Partisan Disagreement about Pandemic Response12
Female Politicians as Climate Fools: Intertextual and Multimodal Constructions of Misogyny Disguised as Humor in Political Communication12
Community Violence and Support for Violent Extremism: Evidence From the Sahel11
Personal Contact with Refugees is Key to Welcoming Them: An Analysis of Politicians' and Citizens' Attitudes Towards Refugee Integration11
Economic Distress and Populism: Examining the Role of Identity Threat and Feelings of Social Exclusion11
Objective and Subjective Socioeconomic Status as Sources of Status‐Legitimacy Effect and Legitimation of Income Inequality11
Taking Care of Each Other: How Can We Increase Compliance with Personal Protective Measures During the COVID‐19 Pandemic in Chile?11
My Country, Right or Wrong: Education, Accumulated Democratic Experience, and Political Socialization of Blind Patriotism10
“They've Put Nothing in the Pot!”: Brexit and the Key Psychological Motivations Behind Voting 'Remain' and 'Leave'10
Growing Up as a European? Parental Socialization and the Educational Divide in Euroskepticism10
Disavowing White Identity: How Social Disgust can Change Social Identities10
The Impact of Including Advantaged Groups in Collective Action Against Social Inequality on Politicized Identification of Observers From Disadvantaged and Advantaged Groups10
Do Threats Galvanize Authoritarians or Mobilize Nonauthoritarians? Experimental Tests from 19 European Societies9
Screw Those Guys: Polarization, Empathy, and Attitudes About Out‐Partisans9
Authoritarians Go with the Flow: Social Norms Moderate the Link between Right‐Wing Authoritarianism and Outgroup‐Directed Attitudes9
The Ideological Predictors of Moral Appeals by European Political Elites; An Exploration of the Use of Moral Rhetoric in Multiparty Systems9
Hearing From Both Sides: Differences Between Liberal and Conservative Attitudes Toward Scientific and Experiential Evidence8
The Relation Between Social Identities and Outgroup Hostility Among German Immigrant‐Origin Citizens8
The Power of Political Déjà Vu: When Collective Action Becomes an Effort to Change the Future by Preventing the Return of the Past8
Distrustful Complacency and the COVID‐19 Vaccine: How Concern and Political Trust Interact to Affect Vaccine Hesitancy8
Populist Attitudes and Threat Perceptions of Global Transformations and Governance: Experimental Evidence from India and the United Kingdom8
The Personalities of Presidents as Independent Variables7
Living There, Leaving There: Identity, Sociospatial Mobility, and Exclusion in “Stigmatized Neighborhoods”7
Positive and Negative Peace as Predictors of Pandemic Preparedness: Evidence from a Micro‐ and Macro‐Level Investigation During the Onset of the COVID‐19 Pandemic7
Religion and Democratic Commitment: A Unifying Motivational Framework7
The Role of Humanitarianism in Shaping Public Attitudes Toward Refugees7
Parochial Altruism and Political Ideology7
Does Analytic Thinking Insulate Against Pro‐Kremlin Disinformation? Evidence From Ukraine7
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 attacks7
Where and Why Immigrants Intend to Naturalize: The Interplay Between Acculturation Strategies and Integration Policies6
From the People, Like the People, or For the People? Candidate Appraisal Among the French Yellow Vests6
Make It Great Again: The Relationship Between Populist Attitudes and Nostalgia6
Defensive Partisanship? Evidence that In‐Party Scandals Increase Out‐Party Hostility6
Socialized to Safety? The Origins of Gender Difference in Personal Security Dispositions6
The Psychology of Leadership Destabilization: An Analysis of the 2016 U.S. Presidential Debates6
Ethnicity or Policy? The Conditioning of Intergroup Trust in the Context of Ethnic Conflict6
What It Means to (Mis)Trust: Forced Migration, Ontological (In)Security, and the Unrecognized Political Psychology of the Israeli‐Lebanese Conflict6
Personal Values Priorities and Support for Populism in Europe—An Analysis of Personal Motivations Underpinning Support for Populist Parties in Europe6
“The More You Know”: Critical Historical Knowledge About Indian Residential Schools Increases Non‐Indigenous Canadians' Empathy for Indigenous Peoples6
A Radical Vision of Radicalism: Political Cynicism, not Incrementally Stronger Partisan Positions, Explains Political Radicalization6
Political Ideology in Early Childhood: Making the Case for Studying Young Children in Political Psychology6
Hot Populism? Affective Responses to Antiestablishment Rhetoric6
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