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1	A Decade of System Justification Theory: Accumulated Evidence of Conscious and Unconscious Bolstering of the Status Quo	Political Psychology	2004	2,027
2	Toward a Measure of Patriotic and Nationalistic Attitudes	Political Psychology	1989	822
3	The Secret Lives of Liberals and Conservatives: Personality Profiles, Interaction Styles, and the Things They Leave Behind	Political Psychology	2008	817
4	From Social to Political Identity: A Critical Examination of Social Identity Theory	Political Psychology	2001	803
5	Perceived Threat and Authoritarianism	Political Psychology	1997	791
6	Globalization and Religious Nationalism: Self, Identity, and the Search for Ontological Security	Political Psychology	2004	744
7	Understanding Conspiracy Theories	Political Psychology	2019	664
8	Taboo Trade‐offs: Reactions to Transactions That Transgress the Spheres of Justice	Political Psychology	1997	613
9	Belief in Conspiracy Theories	Political Psychology	1994	608
10	Personality and Politics: Values, Traits, and Political Choice	Political Psychology	2006	607
11	The Nature and Origins of Misperceptions: Understanding False and Unsupported Beliefs About Politics	Political Psychology	2017	583
12	Enforcing Social Conformity: A Theory of Authoritarianism	Political Psychology	2003	579
13	The Symbolic Racism 2000 Scale	Political Psychology	2002	557
14	On the Varieties of National Attachment: Blind Versus Constructive Patriotism	Political Psychology	1999	548
15	Basic Personal Values, Core Political Values, and Voting: A Longitudinal Analysis	Political Psychology	2010	490
16	Understanding the Determinants of Political Ideology: Implications of Structural Complexity	Political Psychology	2014	465
17	Social Capital, Social Networks, and Political Participation	Political Psychology	1998	459
18	Is a Worried Citizen a Good Citizen? Emotions, Political Information Seeking, and Learning via the Internet	Political Psychology	2008	425
19	The Automaticity of Affect for Political Leaders, Groups, and Issues: An Experimental Test of the Hot Cognition Hypothesis	Political Psychology	2005	420
20	The Psychology of Radicalization and Deradicalization: How Significance Quest Impacts Violent Extremism	Political Psychology	2014	419
21	Disagreement, Ambivalence, and Engagement: The Political Consequences of Heterogeneous Networks	Political Psychology	2004	418
22	From Intractable Conflict Through Conflict Resolution To Reconciliation: Psychological Analysis	Political Psychology	2000	413
23	Ideological Asymmetries and the Essence of Political Psychology	Political Psychology	2017	411
24	Climate‐Science Communication and the Measurement Problem	Political Psychology	2015	391
25	The Psychology of Criminal Conduct	Political Psychology	1995	390
26	Beliefs in Conspiracies	Political Psychology	1999	376
27	Political Parties, Motivated Reasoning, and Public Opinion Formation	Political Psychology	2014	376
28	Influences of Adaptation to Communist Rule on Value Priorities in Eastern Europe	Political Psychology	1997	371
29	Framing Persuasive Appeals: Episodic and Thematic Framing, Emotional Response, and Policy Opinion	Political Psychology	2008	371
30	Social Dominance Theory: Its Agenda and Method	Political Psychology	2004	368
31	Understanding Party Identification: A Social Identity Approach	Political Psychology	1999	363
32	The Impact of Social Threat on Worldview and Ideological Attitudes	Political Psychology	2003	362
33	The Context of Social Identity: Domination, Resistance, and Change	Political Psychology	2004	355
34	Why Do Bowling and Singing Matter? Group Characteristics, Membership, and Generalized Trust	Political Psychology	1998	350
35	Why Does Fear Override Hope in Societies Engulfed by Intractable Conflict, as It Does in the Israeli Society?	Political Psychology	2001	348
36	The Affective Tipping Point: Do Motivated Reasoners Ever “Get It”?	Political Psychology	2010	348
37	Authoritarianism and Group Identification: A New View of an Old Construct	Political Psychology	1989	342
38	National Identity in a United Germany: Nationalism or Patriotism? An Empirical Test With Representative Data	Political Psychology	2003	334
39	The Many Faces of SocialIdentity: Implications for Political Psychology	Political Psychology	2001	332
40	The Effect of Education on Nationalism and Ethnic Exclusionism: An International Comparison	Political Psychology	2003	316
41	A Tripartite Approach to Right-Wing Authoritarianism: The Authoritarianism-Conservatism-Traditionalism Model	Political Psychology	2010	315
42	Values and Voting	Political Psychology	1998	310
43	Basic Personal Values and the Meaning of Left‐Right Political Orientations in 20 Countries	Political Psychology	2011	309
44	The Psychology of Terrorism: An Agenda for the 21st Century	Political Psychology	2000	298
45	Immigration Opposition Among U.S. Whites: General Ethnocentrism or Media Priming of Attitudes About Latinos?	Political Psychology	2013	291
46	Participation in Voluntary Associations: Relations with Resources, Personality, and Political Values	Political Psychology	2005	289
47	Forgive and Forget? Antecedents and Consequences of Intergroup Forgiveness in Bosnia and Herzegovina	Political Psychology	2008	275
48	Measuring Stereotypes of Female Politicians	Political Psychology	2014	270
49	Reconciliation after Genocide, Mass Killing, or Intractable Conflict: Understanding the Roots of Violence, Psychological Recovery, and Steps toward a General Theory	Political Psychology	2006	269
50	The Social Structure of Political Echo Chambers: Variation in Ideological Homophily in Online Networks	Political Psychology	2017	264
51	Negative Partisanship: Why Americans Dislike Parties But Behave Like Rabid Partisans	Political Psychology	2018	259
52	The Consequences of Terrorism: Disentangling the Effects of Personal and National Threat	Political Psychology	2002	257
53	Civic Engagement, Interpersonal Trust, and Television Use: An Individual-Level Assessment of Social Capital	Political Psychology	1998	248
54	Prospect Theory and International Relations: Theoretical Applications and Analytical Problems	Political Psychology	1992	246
55	Fully Committed: Suicide Bombers' Motivation and the Quest for Personal Significance	Political Psychology	2009	244
56	The Role of the Media in the Construction of Public Belief and Social Change	Journal of Social and Political Psychology	2013	243
57	Emotional, Sensitive, and Unfit for Office? Gender Stereotype Activation and Support Female Candidates	Political Psychology	2015	239
58	What Does It Mean to Be an American? Patriotism, Nationalism, and American Identity After 9/11	Political Psychology	2004	238
59	Some Benefits of Being an Activist: Measuring Activism and Its Role in Psychological Well‐Being	Political Psychology	2009	223
60	Decolonizing Psychological Science: Introduction to the Special Thematic Section	Journal of Social and Political Psychology	2015	223
61	How Social Media Facilitates Political Protest: Information, Motivation, and Social Networks	Political Psychology	2018	223
62	Social Trust and Value Change: The Decline of Social Capital in American Youth, 1976–1995	Political Psychology	1998	222
63	Personality Traits, Partisan Attitudes, and Voting Behavior. Evidence from Germany	Political Psychology	2007	221
64	Personality Profiles and Political Parties	Political Psychology	1999	220
65	The Effects of Investments in theSocial Capital of Youth on Political and Civic Behavior in Young Adulthood: A Longitudinal Analysis	Political Psychology	1999	220
66	Authoritarianism, Social Dominance, and Other Roots of Generalized Prejudice	Political Psychology	2010	217
67	The Strengthening of Partisan Affect	Political Psychology	2018	217
68	Narrative Truth and Historical Truth: Meaning and Interpretation in Psychoanalysis	Political Psychology	1983	214
69	The Dimensionality of Right-Wing Authoritarianism: Lessons from the Dilemma between Theory and Measurement	Political Psychology	2005	206
70	The Relationship Between Need for Closure and Conservative Beliefs in Western and Eastern Europe	Political Psychology	2003	202
71	Doubly Bound: The Impact of Gender and Race on the Politics of Black Women	Political Psychology	1998	201
72	Framing Emotional Response	Political Psychology	2004	198
73	The Impact of Individual and Interpersonal Factors on Perceived News Media Bias	Political Psychology	2003	197
74	Social Capital, Television, and the "Mean World": Trust, Optimism, and Civic Participation	Political Psychology	1998	196
75	Constructing the Citizen	Political Psychology	2004	193
76	The Aggregated Consequences of Motivated Reasoning and the Dynamics of Partisan Presidential Approval	Political Psychology	2007	193
77	Identity Politics and Politicized Identities: Identity Processes and the Dynamics of Protest	Political Psychology	2014	192
78	When Self-Interest Matters	Political Psychology	2001	191
79	Prospect Theory in Political Science: Gains and Losses From the First Decade	Political Psychology	2004	189
80	Threat, Authoritarianism, and Selective Exposure to Information	Political Psychology	2005	189
81	Selective Exposure in the Internet Age: The Interaction between Anxiety and Information Utility	Political Psychology	2009	186
82	If U.S. Senator Baker Were A Woman: An Experimental Study of Candidate Images	Political Psychology	1981	185
83	The Influence of Perceived Deservingness on Policy Decisions Regarding Aid to the Poor	Political Psychology	2001	184
84	Stages of Colonialism in Africa: From Occupation of Land to Occupation of Being	Journal of Social and Political Psychology	2015	182
85	Political Implications of Loss Aversion	Political Psychology	1992	178
86	One Tribe to Bind Them All: How Our Social Group Attachments Strengthen Partisanship	Political Psychology	2018	178
87	Decolonising Australian Psychology: Discourses, Strategies, and Practice	Journal of Social and Political Psychology	2015	175
88	Moral Conviction and Political Engagement	Political Psychology	2008	174
89	Individual Orientation Toward Engagement in Social Action	Political Psychology	2002	172
90	Authoritarianism and Social Dominance in Western and Eastern Europe: The Importance of the Sociopolitical Context and of Political Interest and Involvement	Political Psychology	2005	172
91	Rationality in Political Behavior	Political Psychology	1995	169
92	Ethnic Identity, Legitimizing Ideologies, and Social Status: A Matter of Ideological Asymmetry	Political Psychology	1998	168
93	On the Knowledge of Politics and the Politics of Knowledge: How a Social Representations Approach Helps Us Rethink the Subject of Political Psychology	Political Psychology	2011	168
94	Genocide and Mass Killing: Origins, Prevention, Healing and Reconciliation	Political Psychology	2000	166
95	Priming the Vote: Campaign Effects in a U.S. Senate Election	Political Psychology	2004	166
96	Values, Framing, and Citizens' Thoughts about Policy Issues: Effects on Content and Quantity	Political Psychology	2005	166
97	Trust in Government in the Aftermath of 9/11: Determinants and Consequences	Political Psychology	2002	165
98	Emotional Policy: Personal Sadness and Anger Shape Judgments about a Welfare Case	Political Psychology	2008	164
99	Motivation for Collective Action: Group Consciousness as Mediator of Personality, life Experiences, and Women’s Rights Activism	Political Psychology	1999	161
100	Threat as a Motivator of Political Activism: A Field Experiment	Political Psychology	2004	159

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