Political Psychology

October is here and so is the latest issue of Political Psychology! This issue is jam-packed with 25 original articles. Check it out online here: buff.ly/cxAMGba

October is here and so is the latest issue of Political Psychology! This issue is jam-packed with 25 original articles. Check it out online here: buff.ly/cxAMGba

Leaders often mistake their beliefs for public opinion Researchers interviewed 866 politicians in four countries and found that they often believe the public shares their personal views

Politicians often mistake their own beliefs for public opinion. 🏛️🗳️

Recent research in @ispp-pops.bsky.social, summarized on @3streamsblog.bsky.social by @jieun-lee.bsky.social, shows how bias shapes leaders’ perceptions of what voters want.

Read here 👉 medium.com/3streams/lea...

👇 call for papers on the political psychology of East Asia!

Benevolent authority beliefs predict public approval in China, but not Japan. At the same time, democratic values were positively associated with public approval in Japan but negatively associated with that in China (in @ispp-pops.bsky.social)

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The last article from our August issue is a review by Eric Baldwin of two books looking at the state of radicalization and what it means for US politics. Read the insightful analysis online: doi.org/10.1111/pops...

What drives attitudes towards economic mobility & redistributive policies? Research from Matamoros-Lima et al. in our August issue finds that the perceived difficulty (or ease) in improving socioeconomic status helps to shape support for redistribution. Read open-access: doi.org/10.1111/pops...

“I feel I should put that work in”: Discourses of effortfulness and essentialism among post‐Brexit applicants for Irish citizenship This article explores the post-Brexit increase in applications for Irish passports through descent, and in so doing, seeks to develop a social/political psychology of diasporic citizenship. It draws ....

If you'd like read an analysis of how applicants for Irish passports through descent draw on discourses of 'effortfulness' i.e. the idea that they need to put in the work, well, do I have an 8000 word open access @ispp-pops.bsky.social article for you: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

What does it mean to be European? Mayer et al.'s article in our August issue looks at adolescents' ideas of European identity in Germany. Read open-access online for how these conceptualizations of identity shape intolerance, support of the EU, and more: doi.org/10.1111/pops...

How do social interactions shape ethnic identity? John Doces' article in our August issue examines the effects of social contact on ethnic identity through a field experiment in West Africa and finds a complex dynamic between interethnic relations & identity. Read more: doi.org/10.1111/pops...

Working on political psychology research with a focus on East Asia? A new special issue of our journal will center East Asia to broaden the field’s geographic & cultural assumptions. Find the call in the Special Issues section of the link below & consider submitting your work! linktr.ee/POPSjournal

Home - Consortium on Moral Decision-Making Welcome to the Consortium on Moral Decision-Making A collaborative hub dedicated to unraveling the intricate threads of ethical choices. As a multidisciplinary alliance of scholars, thinkers, and prac...

As the fall semester begins, I'd like to send a call to anyone who would like to get involved in our Consortium on Moral Decision-Making. We're a dedicated network of morality and ethics researchers focused on breaking outside siloes to work together on big questions.
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“We used data comprised of 24,009 participants nested within 42 countries. Multilevel models largely supported the competing claims of social dominance and social identity theories over SJT.”

When & why do individuals defend the political systems they live in? Valdes et al. study the tenets of System Justification Theory in a paper from our August issue. Read open-access for their findings on what motivates people to see their system as just, fair, & legitimate. doi.org/10.1111/pops...

What drives the decisions of world leaders? From our August issue, Brent Mills applies Moral Foundations Theory to better understand leaders' motivations & behavior using Vladimir Putin as a case study. Read online: doi.org/10.1111/pops...

How do societies move past perceived roles of “victim” and “perpetrator” in the aftermath of conflict? In our August issue, Kazarovytska et al. study this in the context of WWII and explore new ways of understanding collective memory and identity. Read open-access here: doi.org/10.1111/pops...

Can tolerance promoted by comprehensive welfare states withstand demographic pressure? In studying racial animosity in Sweden following the refugee crisis, Persson & Widmalm found higher levels of antipathy toward political ideologies than ethnic identities. Read open-access: doi.org/10.1111/pops...

Does a candidate's gender change the way voters evaluate them? A Rohrbach & Schönhagen article in our August issue studies the role that voters' heuristics and rationalizations play in candidate evaluation. Read the full open-access piece online: doi.org/10.1111/pops...

Do ad disclosures on political social media posts change how viewers evaluate a post? Stafford et al.'s study in our August issue suggests disclosures play a strong role in how voters respond to various political messages. Read for more and the implications of their findings: doi.org/10.1111/pops...

Is there a link between conservatism & perceived openness/tolerance? In our August issue, Rupar et al. find the level of perceived universalism values in society related to right-wing views & nationalism via the view of universalism as threat to trad. ways of life. Read now: doi.org/10.1111/pops...

Do Populist Leaders Mimic the Language of Ordinary Citizens? Evidence From India Minimal understandings of populism focus on measuring explicit stances of antielitism and people centrism. What remains poorly understood is the way less overt forms of populist rhetoric enable leade...

🇮🇳Check out this recent article, “Do Populist Leaders Mimic the Language of Ordinary Citizens? Evidence From India,” published in @ispp-pops.bsky.social by Jean-Thomas Martelli and Christophe Jaffrelot 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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the august issue of political psychology is out now featuring ten original articles and a book review. check out the table of contents for more: buff.ly/fwpNtEo

The last of our book reviews in our June issue is a piece by Kay Lehman Schlozman. In the article, Schlozman reviews Muirhead & Rosenblum's Ungoverning: The Attack on the Administrative State and the Politics of Chaos. Read the full piece online: doi.org/10.1111/pops...

The second book review from our June issue covers Orla T. Muldoon's The Social Psychology of Trauma. University of Lausanne scholars Eva G.T. Green & Christian Staerklé take a look at how Muldoon's book reframes trauma as a fundamentally social and political process. doi.org/10.1111/pops...

In a survey experiment, we asked a sample of Portuguese voters to imagine that a politician was being investigated for a corruption case—money in exchange for favoritism in a public tender. (1)

We have three book reviews to round out our June issue article spotlight. Up first is Carrie Menkel-Meadow's review of Hope Amidst Conflict by Oded Adomi Leshem. Read for the perspective of the award-winning scholar of alternative dispute resolution on Leshem's book doi.org/10.1111/pops...

Does gender bias shape what voters learn about candidates? Libby Jenke's eye-tracking study in our June issue found attention doesn't differ by candidate gender. Read online for more on what this means for gender bias in candidate judgment and information acquisition: doi.org/10.1111/pops...

A specter is haunting political psychology—a specter of left‐wing authoritarianism: Development and validation of left‐wing authoritarianism scale in a post‐communist society The position of left-wing authoritarianism (LWA), contrary to its right-wing counterpart, has long been contested within the psychological literature. Efforts to examine the nature of LWA have recent...

📣Fresh out the slammer - our Registered Report on the so-called LWA - "A specter is haunting political psychology—a specter of left-wing authoritarianism" with @milicaninkovic.bsky.social out now in Political Psychology! @ispp-pops.bsky.social !

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That feeling you get when one of your students’ work shows up in your feed does not get old.

When do we think the system is fair and why? Ferrés et al.’s article in our June issue explores how comparing today’s society to past conditions or future alternatives can shape how people perceive fairness and legitimacy in the system. Read the full article online: doi.org/10.1111/pops...