OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2020-09-01 to 2024-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Harnessing Shared Identities to Mobilize Resilient Responses to the COVID‐19 Pandemic	67
How Emotional Are Populists Really? Factors Explaining Emotional Appeals in the Communication of Political Parties	66
Conspiracy Theories and Institutional Trust: Examining the Role of Uncertainty Avoidance and Active Social Media Use	56
Psychological Correlates of Populist Attitudes	50
Investigating the Links Between Cultural Values and Belief in Conspiracy Theories: The Key Roles of Collectivism and Masculinity	48
Reducing Affective Polarization: Warm Group Relations or Policy Compromise?	46
Examining the Left‐Right Divide Through the Lens of a Global Crisis: Ideological Differences and Their Implications for Responses to the COVID‐19 Pandemic	44
The Language of Pandemic Leaderships: Mapping Political Rhetoric During the COVID‐19 Outbreak	41
Consequences of Economic Inequality for the Social and Political Vitality of Society: A Social Identity Analysis	40
Populist Gullibility: Conspiracy Theories, News Credibility, Bullshit Receptivity, and Paranormal Belief	37
MOBILISE: A Higher‐Order Integration of Collective Action Research to Address Global Challenges	36
Abortion Attitudes: An Overview of Demographic and Ideological Differences	31
Power to the People: The Hidden Link Between Support for Direct Democracy and Belief in Conspiracy Theories	29
Nationalism, Patriotism, and Support for the European Union	28
Personal and Political: Post‐Traumatic Stress Through the Lens of Social Identity, Power, and Politics	27
The Return of Ethnocentrism	25
“Everybody Needs to Do Their Part, So We Can Get This Under Control.” Reactions to the Norwegian Government Meta‐Narratives on COVID‐19 Measures	24
Targeting Ontological Security: Information Warfare in the Modern Age	24
Predictors of Political Violence Outcomes among Young People: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis	24
The Political Psychology of COVID‐19	23
Fear, Hope, and COVID‐19: Emotional Elite Rhetoric and Its Impact on the Public During the First Wave of the COVID‐19 Pandemic	22
Antiwomen But Proquota: Disaggregating Sexism and Support for Gender Quota Policies	21
On the Relation Between Religiosity and the Endorsement of Conspiracy Theories: The Role of Political Orientation	20
Australasian Public Awareness and Belief in Conspiracy Theories: Motivational Correlates	20
United We Stand, Divided We Fall: Sociopolitical Predictors of Physical Distancing and Hand Hygiene During the COVID‐19 Pandemic	20

War Against COVID‐19: How Is National Identification Linked With the Adoption of Disease‐Preventive Behaviors in China and the United States?	20
Moralizing the COVID‐19 Pandemic: Self‐Interest Predicts Moral Condemnation of Other's Compliance, Distancing, and Vaccination	19
Moral Polarization Predicts Support for Authoritarian and Progressive Strong Leaders via the Perceived Breakdown of Society	19
Social and Cognitive Aspects of the Vulnerability to Political Misinformation	19
Facing a Common Human Fate: Relating Global Identity and Climate Change Mitigation	17
Down But Not Yet Out: Depression, Political Efficacy, and Voting	17
Economic Distress and Populism: Examining the Role of Identity Threat and Feelings of Social Exclusion	16
Exposure and Aversion to Human Transmissible Diseases Predict Conservative Ideological and Partisan Preferences	16
Morbid Polarization: Exposure to COVID‐19 and Partisan Disagreement about Pandemic Response	16
Growing Up as a European? Parental Socialization and the Educational Divide in Euroskepticism	16
Common Sense as a Political Weapon: Populism, Science Skepticism, and Global Crisis‐Solving Motivations	15
The Impact of Including Advantaged Groups in Collective Action Against Social Inequality on Politicized Identification of Observers From Disadvantaged and Advantaged Groups	15
When Left Is Right and Right Is Left: The Psychological Correlates of Political Ideology in China	15
Personal Contact with Refugees is Key to Welcoming Them: An Analysis of Politicians' and Citizens' Attitudes Towards Refugee Integration	14
The Ideological Predictors of Moral Appeals by European Political Elites; An Exploration of the Use of Moral Rhetoric in Multiparty Systems	14
Female Politicians as Climate Fools: Intertextual and Multimodal Constructions of Misogyny Disguised as Humor in Political Communication	14
Does Analytic Thinking Insulate Against Pro‐Kremlin Disinformation? Evidence From Ukraine	13
The Relation Between Social Identities and Outgroup Hostility Among German Immigrant‐Origin Citizens	13
Taking Care of Each Other: How Can We Increase Compliance with Personal Protective Measures During the COVID‐19 Pandemic in Chile?	13
Disavowing White Identity: How Social Disgust can Change Social Identities	12
Populist Attitudes and Threat Perceptions of Global Transformations and Governance: Experimental Evidence from India and the United Kingdom	12
Objective and Subjective Socioeconomic Status as Sources of Status‐Legitimacy Effect and Legitimation of Income Inequality	11
Make It Great Again: The Relationship Between Populist Attitudes and Nostalgia	11
Community Violence and Support for Violent Extremism: Evidence From the Sahel	11
My Country, Right or Wrong: Education, Accumulated Democratic Experience, and Political Socialization of Blind Patriotism	11
Collective Narcissism as a Basis for Nationalism	11
The Racialization of International Trade	11
Authoritarians Go with the Flow: Social Norms Moderate the Link between Right‐Wing Authoritarianism and Outgroup‐Directed Attitudes	11
Hot Populism? Affective Responses to Antiestablishment Rhetoric	11
The Power of Political Déjà Vu: When Collective Action Becomes an Effort to Change the Future by Preventing the Return of the Past	10
Do Threats Galvanize Authoritarians or Mobilize Nonauthoritarians? Experimental Tests from 19 European Societies	10
Where and Why Immigrants Intend to Naturalize: The Interplay Between Acculturation Strategies and Integration Policies	10
Parochial Altruism and Political Ideology	10
“Not Racist, But…”: Beliefs About Immigration Restrictions, Collective Narcissism, and Justification of Ethnic Extremism	10
Religion and Democratic Commitment: A Unifying Motivational Framework	10
The Role of Humanitarianism in Shaping Public Attitudes Toward Refugees	10
Projection in Politicians' Perceptions of Public Opinion	9
Distrustful Complacency and the COVID‐19 Vaccine: How Concern and Political Trust Interact to Affect Vaccine Hesitancy	9
Screw Those Guys: Polarization, Empathy, and Attitudes About Out‐Partisans	9
Reducing Political Dehumanization by Pairing Facts With Personal Experiences	9
Political Ideology in Early Childhood: Making the Case for Studying Young Children in Political Psychology	9
Youth Political Mobilization: Violence, Intimidation, and Patronage in Zimbabwe	9
On the Misrecognition of Identity: Muslims' Everyday Experiences in Scotland	9
Hearing From Both Sides: Differences Between Liberal and Conservative Attitudes Toward Scientific and Experiential Evidence	9
A Radical Vision of Radicalism: Political Cynicism, not Incrementally Stronger Partisan Positions, Explains Political Radicalization	9
Generalized Dispositional Distrust as the Common Core of Populism and Conspiracy Mentality	8
What It Means to (Mis)Trust: Forced Migration, Ontological (In)Security, and the Unrecognized Political Psychology of the Israeli‐Lebanese Conflict	8
The Politics in White Identity: Testing a Racialized Partisan Hypothesis	8
Positive and Negative Peace as Predictors of Pandemic Preparedness: Evidence from a Micro‐ and Macro‐Level Investigation During the Onset of the COVID‐19 Pandemic	8
The Personalities of Presidents as Independent Variables	7

Coping with Cross‐Pressures: The Seamless Garment in Catholic Political Behavior	7
Personal Values Priorities and Support for Populism in Europe—An Analysis of Personal Motivations Underpinning Support for Populist Parties in Europe	7
Toward an Integrative Perspective on Distinct Positive Emotions for Political Action: Analyzing, Comparing, Evaluating, and Synthesizing Three Theoretical Perspectives	7
The Psychology of Leadership Destabilization: An Analysis of the 2016 U.S. Presidential Debates	7
A Social Identity Approach to How Elite Outgroups Are Invoked by Politicians and the Media in Nativist Populism	7
The Religious Communication Approach and Political Behavior	7
“The More You Know”: Critical Historical Knowledge About Indian Residential Schools Increases Non‐Indigenous Canadians' Empathy for Indigenous Peoples	7
Gender Gap in Parental Leave Intentions: Evidence from 37 Countries	7
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	7
Reversing the Causal Arrow: Politics' Influence on Religious Choices	6
Forged Examples as Disinformation: The Biasing Effects of Political Astroturfing Comments on Public Opinion Perceptions and How to Prevent Them	6
From Gaming to Hating: Extreme‐Right Ideological Indoctrination and Mobilization for Violence of Children on Online Gaming Platforms	6
Introducing the Collective Action Recursive Empowerment (CARE) Model: How Small‐Scale Protests Led to Large‐Scale Collective Action in Armenia's Velvet Revolution	6
The Many Guises of Populism and Crisis: Introduction to the Special Issue on Populism and Global Crises	6
Are Newsjunkies More Likely to Vote? Intrinsic Need for Orientation and Voter Registration, Intention to Vote, and Voter Conscientiousness	6
Populism and Layers of Social Belonging: Support of Populist Parties in Europe	6
Socialized to Safety? The Origins of Gender Difference in Personal Security Dispositions	6
Understanding Change in Social‐Movement Participation: The Roles of Social Norms and Group Efficacy	6
The COVID‐19–Social Identity–Digital Media Nexus in India: Polarization and Blame	6
Ethnicity or Policy? The Conditioning of Intergroup Trust in the Context of Ethnic Conflict	6
Threats, Emotions, and Affective Polarization	6
How Social‐Class Background Influences Perceptions of Political Leaders	6
The FARC in Colombia: Collective Reintegration and Social Identity Transformation	6
From the People, Like the People, or For the People? Candidate Appraisal Among the French Yellow Vests	6
Does System Justification Promote Establishment Voting? Mainstream Politics in France, Germany, and the United Kingdom	6
Work Is Political: Distributive Injustice as a Mediating Mechanism in the Relationship Between Job Insecurity and Political Cynicism	6