Recent Publications

Faculty and students associated with the Center for the Study of Politcal Psychology are major contributors to the global scientific literature on politcial psychology. Their work has appeared frequently not only in dedicated politcal-psychology outlets and in academic-press books, but in leading discipline-wide journals in the fields of psychology, political science, and mass communication. Below is a running bibliography of work by scholars affiliated with CSPP.

Bode, L., Vraga, E., Tang, R. "User correction." Current Opinion in Psychology.

Golec de Zavala, A., Federico, C. M. "The Father's Love: Collective Narcissism and Defensive Reactions to Allegations about Pope John Paul II in Polish Public Opinion." SocArXiv.

Parker, C. S., Lavine, H. "Status threat: The core of reactionary politics." Political Psychology.

Tang, R., Vraga, E., Bode, L., Boulianne, S. "Who reports witnessing and performing corrections on social media in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, and France?" Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review.

Banerjee, S., Mont'Alverne, C., Ross Arguedas, A., Toff, B., Fletcher, R. "Strategies for building trust in news: What the public say they want across four countries." Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.

Battocchoi, A., Wells, C., Vraga, E., Thorson, K., Edgerly S., Bode, L. "Gen Z's civic engagement: news use, politics, and cultural engagement." Handbook of Digital Politics.

Battocchoi, A., Bode, L., Wells, C., Vraga, E., Thorson, K., Edgerly, S. "Gen Z's civic engagement: civic skills, political expression, and identity." Handbook of Digital Politics.

Busby, E. C., Howat, A. J., Myers, C. D. "Changing stereotypes of partisans in the Trump Era." Political Science Research and Methods.

Federico, C. M., Malka, A. "The Psychological and Social Foundations of Ideological Belief Systems." The Oxford Handbook of Political Psychology (3rd Edition) 

Mehnaz Kahn, E., Ram, A., Rath, B., Vraga, E., Srivastava, J. "Behavioral Forensics in Social Networks: Identifying Misinformation, Disinformation and Refutation Spreaders Using Machine Learning." arXiv.

Limaye, V. S., Toff, B. "Evaluating responses to health-related messages about the financial costs of climate change. The Journal of Climate Change and Health.

Malka, A., Federico, C. M., Costello, T. H. "Unsorted Partisanship and Anti-Democratic Orientation in the American Public." PsyArXiv.

Malka, A., Federico, C. M. "Political Belief Systems Are Not Singularly Rooted in Alliance Psychology." Psychological Inquiry.

Mathews, N., Toff, B. "'We Were on Facebook before Facebook': The Existential (Not Only Economic) Threat to Community Weekly Newspapers in the US." Digital Journalism.

Mont'Alverne, C., Ross Arguedas, A., Badrinathan, S., Toff, B., Fletcher, R., Nielsen, R. K. "Domain-specific influence on Facebook: how topic matters when assessing influential accounts in four countries." Journalism, Media and Communication.

Mont'Alverne, C., Ross Arguedas, A., Banerjee, S., Toff, B., Fletcher, R. "The Electoral Misinformation of Nexus: how news consumption, platform use, and trust in news influence belief in electoral misinformation."

Myers, C. D. "Issues, Groups, or Idiots? Comparing Theories of Partisan Stereotypes." Public Opinion Quarterly.

Palmer, R., Toff, B., Nielsen, R. K. "Examining Assumptions Around How News Avoidance Gets Defined: The Importance of Overall News Consumption, Intention, and Structural Inequalities." Journalism Studies.

Ross Arguedas, A., Nielsen, R., Banerjee, S., Mont'Alverne, C., Toff, B. "News for the powerful and privileged: how misrepresentation and underrepresentation of disadvantaged communities undermines their trust in news." Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.

Ross Arguedas, A., Badrinathan, S., Mont'Alverne, C., Toff, B., Fletcher, R., Nielsen, R. K. "Shortcuts to trust: Relying on cues to judge online news from unfamiliar sources on digital platforms." Journalism.

Vraga, E., Edgerly, S. "Relevance as a Mechanism in Evaluating News-Ness among American Teens and Adults." Digital Journalism.

Vraga, E., Brady, S., Kulasingam, S. "A review of HPV and HBV vaccine hesitancy, intention, and uptake in the era of social media and COVID-19." Epidemiology and Global Health.

Vraga, E., Ecker, U. Zezeji, I., Lazic, A., Azlan, A. "To Debunk or Not to Debunk? Correcting (Mis)Information." Managing Infodemics in the 21st century: Addressing new public health challenges in the information ecosystem.

Vraga, E., Edgerly S. "Is that news for me?" News Quality in the Digital Age.

Zhirkov, K., Lunz Trujillo, K., Myers, C. D. "Measuring Support for Welfare Policies: Implications for the Effects of Race and Deservingness Stereotypes." Journal of Experimental Political Science.

Armenta, A., Alvarez, M. J., Hitlan, R., Federico, C. M., Zarate, M. A. "Cultural Inertia: Framework of Change and Intergroup Relations." Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.

Ashley, S., Craft, S., Maksl, A., Tully, M., Vraga, E. "Can News Literacy Help Reduce Belief in COVID Misinformation?" Mass Communication and Society.

Cook, J., Ecker, U., Trecek-King, M., Schade, G., Jeffers-Tracy, K., Fessmann, J., Kim, S., Kinkead, D., Orr, M., Vraga, E., Roberts, K., McDowell, J. "The cranky uncle game—combining humor and gamification to build student resilience against climate misinformation." Environmental Education Research.

Ecker, U., Lewandowsky, S., Cook, J., Schmid, P., Fazio, L., Brashier, N., Kendeou, P., Vraga, E., Amazeen, M. "The psychological drivers of misinformation belief and its resistance to correction." Nature Reviews Psychology.

Federico, C. M. "The personality basis of political preferences." Cambridge handbook of political psychology.

Federico, C. M., Farhart, C., Vitriol, J. Golec de Zavala, A. "Collective Narcissism and Perceptions of the (Il)legitimacy of the 2020 US Election." The Forum.

Federico, C. M. "The complex relationship between conspiracy belief and the politics of social change." Current Opinion in Psychology.

Federico, C. M., Golec De Zavala, A., Bu, W. "Collective Narcissism as a Basis for Nationalism." Political Psychology.

Goren, P. "Core Values." In Handbook on Politics and Public Opinion, ed. Thomas J. Rudolph. New York: Edward Elgar Publishing.

Goren, P., Smith, B., Motta, M. "Correction to: Human Values and Sophistication Interaction Theory." Political Behavior, 44: 49-73.

Goren, P. "Pliable Prejudice: The Case of Welfare." American Journal of Political Science, 66: 961-976.

Jones, G., Vraga, E., Hessburg, P., Hurteau, M., Allen, C.,  Keane, R., Spies, T., North, M., Collins, B., Finney, M., Lydersen, J., Westerling, A. "Counteracting wildfire misinformation." Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.

Kalogeropoulos, A., Toff, B., Fletcher, R. "The Watchdog Press in the Doghouse: A Comparative Study of Attitudes about Accountability Journalism, Trust in News, and News Avoidance." The International Journal of Press/Politics.

Miro, C. J., Toff, B. "How Right-Wing Populists Engage with Cross-Cutting News on Online Message Boards: The Case of ForoCoches and Vox in Spain." The International Journal of Press/Politics.

Mont'Alverne, C., Badrinathan, S., Ross Arguedas, A., Toff, B., Fletcher, R. "The trust gap: how and why news on digital platforms is viewed more skeptically versus news in general." Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.

Mont'Alverne, C., Badrinathan, S., Ross Arguedas, A., Toff, B., Fletcher, R., Nielsen, R. "'Fair and Balanced': What News Audiences in Four Countries Mean When They Say They Prefer Impartial News." Journalism Studies.

Myers, C. D. "Data for: Politicizing the Pandemic? Partisan Framing of the Early COVID-19 Pandemic was Infrequent, Particularly in Local Newspapers." Data Repository for U of M (DRUM).

Myers, C. D., Zhirkov, K., Lunz Trujillo, K. "Who Is "On Welfare"? Validating the Use of Conjoint Experiments to Measure Stereotype Content." Political Behavior.

Palmer, R., Toff, B. "Neither Absent nor Ambient: Incidental News Exposure From the Perspective of News Avoiders in the UK, United States, and Spain." The International Journal of Press/Politics.

Ross Arguedas, A., Badrinathan, S., Mont'Alverne, C., Toff, B., Fletcher, R., Nielsen, R. K. "'It's a Battle You Are Never Going to Win': Perspectives from Journalists in Four Countries on How Digital Media Platforms Undermine Trust in News." Journalism Studies.

Ross Arguedas, A., Badrinathan, S., Mont'Alverne, C., Toff, B., Fletcher, R. "Snap judgements: how audiences who lack trust in news navigate information on digital platforms." Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.

Suk, J., Shah, D., Bode, L., Edgerly, S., Thorson, K., Vraga, E., Wells, C., Pevehouse, J. "Political Events in a Partisan Media Ecology: Asymmetric Influence on Candidate Appraisals." Mass Communication and Society.

Toff, B., Nielsen, R. K. "How News Feels: Anticipated Anxiety as a Factor in News Avoidance and a Barrier to Political Engagement." Political Communication.

Toff, B. "Selective Trust in News in the Comparative Context." Global Media Journal - German Edition.\

Vraga, E., Bode, L. "Correcting What's True: Testing Competing Claims About Health Misinformation on Social Media."American Behavioral Scientist.

Abad, N., Ahmed, N., Amponsa-Achiano, K., Vraga, E. "WHO Public Health Research Agenda for Managing Infodemics." World Health Organization.

Bai, H., Euh, H., Federico, C. M., Borgida, E. "Thou Shalt not Kill, Unless it is not a Human: Target Dehumanization May Influence Decision Difficulty and Response Patterns for Moral Dilemmas." Guilford Press Periodicals. 

Bai, H., Federico, C. M. "Retrospective Economic Judgements Predict Individual-Level Changes in Vote Preference in the US." PsyArXiv.

Bai, H., Federico, C. M. "White and minority demographic shifts, intergroup threat, and right-wing extremism." Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.

Bode, L., Vraga, E. "The Swiss cheese model for mitigating online misinformation." Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

Bode, L., Vraga, E. "Value for Correction: Documenting Perceptions about Peer Correction of Misinformation on Social Media in the Context of COVID-19." Journal of Quantitative Description.

Bode, L., Vraga, E. "Correction Experiences on Social Media During COVID-19." Social Media + Society.

Bode, L., Vraga, E. "People-powered correction." The Routledge Companion to Media Disinformation and Populism.

Calleja, N., AbdAllah, A., Abad, N., Ahmed, N., Vraga, E. " A Public Health Research Agenda for Managing Infodemics: Methods and Results of the First WHO Infedemiology Conference." JMIR Infodemiology.

Clatch, L., Borgida, E. "Behavioral Economics in Plea-Bargain Decision-Making: Beyond the Shadow-of-Trial Model." Review of Law & Economics.

Edgerly, S., Vraga, E. "That's Not News: Audience Perceptions of 'News-ness' and Why It Matters." What IS News?

Federico, C. M. "When do psychological differences predict political differences?" The Psychology of Political Polarization.

Federico, C. M., Golec de Zavala, A., Baran, T. "Collective narcissism, in-group satisfaction, and solidarity in the face of COVID-19.Social Psychological & Personality Science.

Federico, C. M., Malka, A. "Ideology: The Psychological and Social Foundations of Belief Systems." PsyArXiv.

Federico, C. M., Bai, H., Aguilera, R. "Individual and contextual moderators of the relationship between authoritarianism and religiosity." British Journal of Social Psychology.

Federico, C. M. "The Ideological and Religious Bases of Attitudes Toward Pope Francis in the United States." Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion.

Guidry, J., Perrin, P., Laestadius, L., Vraga, E., Miller, C., Fuemmeler, B., Burton, C., Ryan, M., Carlyle, K. "US public support for COVID-19 vaccine donation to low- and middle-income countries during the COVID-19 pandemic." Vaccine.

Guidry, J., Laestadius, L., Vraga, E., Miller, C., Perrin, P., Burton, C., Ryan, M., Fuemmeler, B., Carlyle, K. "Willingness to get the COVID-19 vaccine with and without emergency use authorization." American Journal of Infection Control.

Kearns, E. M., Federico, C. M., Asal, V., Walsh, J. I., Betus, A. E., Lemieux, A. F. "Intergroup images mediate the relationships between government abuse, sociopolitical orientations, and political action." Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict.

Loken, B., Borgida, E., Wang, T., Madzelan, M.T., Williams, A.L., Hatsukami, D., Stepanov, I. "Can the Public Be Educated About Constituents in Smokeless Tobacco? A Three-Wave Randomized Controlled Trial." Nicotine & Tobacco Research.

Mont'Alverne, C., Ross Arguedas, A., Toff, B., Badrinathan, S. "Trust in the media in Latin America: The same old story?" LSE Latin America and Caribbean Blog.

Myers, C. D. "No effect of partisan framing on opinions about the COVID-19 pandemic." Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties.

Myers, C. D. "The Dynamics of Social Identity: Evidence from Deliberating Groups." Political Psychology.

O'Shea, B. A., Vitriol, J. A., Federico, C. M., Appleby, J., Williams, A. L. "Exposure and Aversion to Human Transmissible Diseases Predict Conservative Ideological and Partisan Preferences." Political Psychology.

Quadri, N., Thielen, B., Crichlow, R., Rheault, M., Vraga, E., Cohen, E., Erayil, S., Gulleen, E., Braman, J., Krohn, K. "12 Tips for Engaging Medical Students in Health Communications." MedEdPublish.

Toff, B., Badrinathan, S., Mont'Alverne, C., Ross Arguedas, A., Fletcher, R., Nielsen, R. K. "What We Think We Know and What We Want to Know: Perspectives on Trust in News in a Changing World." Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.

Toff, B., Badrinathan, S., Mont'Alverne, C., Ross Arguedas, A., Fletcher, R. "Depth and breadth: How news organisations navigate trade-offs around building trust in news." Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.

Toff, B., Mathews, N. "Is Social Media Killing Local News? An Examination of Engagement and Ownership Patterns in US Community News on Facebook." Digital Journalism.

Toff, B., Badrinathan, S., Mont'Alverne, C., Ross Arguedas, A., Fletcher, R. "Overcoming indifference: what attitudes towards news tell us about building trust." Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.

Toff, B. "Sharing Research Amidst the Cat Videos and Clickbait." Journalism Research That Matters.

Toff, B., "The Social Function of News and (Mis) Information Use." The Politics of Truth in Polarized America.

Toff, B., Badrinathan, S., Mont'Alverne, C., Ross Arguedas, A., Fletcher, R. "Listening to what trust in news means to users: qualitative evidence from four countries." Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.

Tully, M., Maksl, A., Ashely, S., Vraga, E., Craft, S. "Defining and conceptualizing news literacy." Journalism.

Vraga, E., Bode, L. "Addressing COVID-19 Misinformation on Social Media Preemptively and Responsively." Emerging Infectious Diseases.

Vraga, E., Bode, L., Tully, M. "The Effects of a News Literacy Video and Real-Time Corrections to Video Misinformation Related to Sunscreen and Skin Cancer." Health Communication.

Vraga, E., Tully, M. "Assessing the relative merits of news literacy and corrections in responding to misinformation on Twitter." New Media & Society.

Bai, H., Federico, C. M. "Corrigendum to Collective existential threat mediates White population decline's effect on defensive reactions." Group Processes & Intergroup Relations.

Bai, H., Fecerico, C. M., Simon J. C. "The Primacy of Symbolic Threat Over Status Threat in Shaping Intergroup Attitudes." PsyArXiv.

Bode, L, Vraga, E., Tully, M. "Correcting misperceptions about genetically modified foods on social media: The impact of experts, users, and social media heuristics." Science Communication.

Bode, L., Vraga, E. "Studying Politics Across Media." Studying Politics Across Media.

Bode, L., Vraga, E., Tully, M. "Do the right thing: Tone may not affect correction of misinformation on social media." Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review.

Bode, L., Vraga, E., Tully, M. "Correcting Misperceptions About Genetically Modified Food on Social Media: Examining the Impact of Experts, Social Media Heuristics, and the Gateway Belief Model." Science Communication.

Borgida, E., Federico, C. M., Miller, J.M., eds. "At the forefront of political psychology: Essays in honor of John L. Sullivan." New York: Routledge.

Bu, W., Borgida, E. "A four-dimensional model of Asian American stereotypes." Group Processes & Intergroup Relations.

Chou, W., Trivedi, N., Peterson, E., Gaysynsky, A., Krakow, M., Vraga, E. "How do social media users process cancer prevention messages on Facebook? An eye-tracking study." Patient Education and Counseling.

Clatch, L., Walters, A., Borgida, E. "How Interdisciplinary? Taking Stock of Decision-Making Research at the Intersection of Psychology and Law." Annual Review of Psychology.

Clatch, L., Borgida, E. "Plea Bargaining: A Test of Dual Discounting Preferences for Non-Monetary Losses." Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.

Edgerly, S., Vraga, E. "Deciding What's News: News-ness As an Audience Concept for the Hybrid Media Environment." Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly.

Goren, P., Smith, B., Motta, M. "Human Values and Sophistication Interaction Theory." Political Behavior.

Goren, P., Motta, M., Smith, B. "The Ideation Foundations of Symbolic Ideology." Political Psychology.

Goren, P., Motta, M. "Basic Human Values and Political Judgment: A Broader Approach." In At the Forefront of Political Psychology: Essays in Honor of John Sullivan, eds. Eugene Borgida, Christopher M. Federico, and Joanne M. Miller. New York: Routledge.

Goren, P. "Values and Public Opinion." Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics.

Guidry, J., Vraga, E., Laestadius, L., Miller, C., Occa, A., Nan, X., Ming, H., Qin, Y., Fuemmeler, B., Carlyle, K. "HPV Vaccine Searches on Pinterest: Before and After Pinterest's Actions to Moderate Content." American Journal of Public Health.

Guidry, J., Coman, I., Vraga, E., O'Donnell, N., Spreedapa, N. "(S)pin the flu vaccine: Recipes for concern." Vaccine.

Kim, S., Vraga, E., Cook, J. "An Eye Tracking Approach to Understanding Misinformation and Correction Strategies on Social Media: The Mediating Role of Attention and Credibility to Reduce HPV Vaccine Misperceptions." Health Communication.

Myers, C. D., Kieffer, E. C., Fendrick, A. M., Kim, H. M., Calhoun, K., Szymecko, L., LaHahnn, L., Ledon, C., Danis, M., Rowe, Z. "How Would Low-Income Communities Prioritize Medicaid Spending?" Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law.

Palmer, R., Toff, B., Nielsen, R. K. "'The Media Covers Up a Lot of Things": Watchdog Ideas Meet Folk Theories of Journalism." Journalism Studies.

Palmer, R., Toff, B. "What Does it Take to Sustain a News Habit? The Role of Civic Duty Norms and a Connection to a "News Community" Among News Avoiders in the UK and Spain." International Journal of Communication.

Singh, L., Bode, L., Budak, C., Kawintiranon, K., Padden, C., Vraga, E. "Understanding high- and low-quality URL Sharing on COVID-19 Twitter streams." Journal of Computational Social Science.

Toff, B., Kalogeropoulos, A. "All the News That's Fit to Ignore: How the Information Environment Does and Does Not Shape News Avoidance." Public Opinion Quarterly.

Tully, M., Bode, L., Vraga, E. "Mobilizing Users: Does Exposure to Misinformation and Its Correction Affect Users' Responses to a Health Misinformation Post." Social Media + Society.

Vitriol, J.A., Lavine, H., Borgida, E. "Meta-cognition and resistance to political persuasion: evidence from a three-wave panel study." Social Influence.

Vraga, E., van der Linden, S. "Responding to climate science denial." Research Handbook on Communicating Climate Change.

Vraga, E., Bode, L. "Correction as a Solution for Health Misinformation on Social Media." American Journal of Public Health.

Vraga, E., Kim, S., Bode, L. "Testing the Effectiveness of Correction Placement and Type on Instagram." The International Journal of Press/Politics.

Vraga, E., Tully, M. "Who Is Exposed to News? It Depends on How You Measure: Examining Self-Reported Versus Behavioral News Exposure Measures." Social Science Computer Review.

Vraga, E., Jacobsen, K. H. "Strategies for Effective Health Communication during the Coronavirus Pandemic and Future Emerging Infectious Disease Events." World Medical & Health Policy.

Vraga, E., Bode, L. "Defining Misinformation and Understanding its Bounded Nature: Using Expertise and Evidence for Describing Misinformation." Political Communication.

Vraga, E., Tully, M., Bode, L. "Empowering Users to Respond to Misinformation about Covid-19." Media and Communication.

Vraga, E., Tully, M., Maksl, A., Craft, S., Ashley, S., "Theorizing News Literacy Behaviors." Communication Theory.

Vraga, E., Bode, L., Tully, M. "Creating News Literacy Messages to Enhance Expert Corrections of Misinformation on Twitter." Communication Research.

Bai, H., & Federico, C. M. "Collective existential threat mediates white population decline's effect on defensive reactions." Group Processes and Intergroup Relations.

Cohen, C. J., and Luttig, M. D. "Reconceptualizing Political Knowledge: Race, Ethnicity, and Carceral Violence." Cambridge University Press.

Davis, N. T., & Federico, C. M. "Constructing images of the divine: Latent heterogeneity in Americas' impressions of God.Journal for the Sccientific Study of Religion, 58, 47-66. 

Ekstrom, P. D., & Federico, C. M. "Personality and political preferences over time: Evidence from a multi-wave longitudinal study." Journal of Personality, 87, 398-412.

Federico, C. M., & Aguilera, R. "The distinct pattern of relationships between the Big Five and racial resentment among white Americans." Social Psychological & Personality Science, 10, 274-284.

Vitriol, J.A., Reifen Tagar, M., Federico C.M., & Sawicki, V. "Ideological uncertainty and investment of the self in politics." Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 82, 85-97.

Appleby, J., & Federico, C. M. "The racialization of electoral fairness in the 2008 and 2012 United States presidential election." Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 21, 7, 979-996.

Causadias, J. M., Vitriol, J. A., & Atkin, A. L. "The cultural (mis) attribution bias in developmental psychology in the United States." Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology.

Causadias, J. M., Vitriol, J.A., Atkin, A.L. "Do we overestimate the role of culture in the behavior of minorities? Evidence of a cultural (mis)attribution bias in psychological research." American Psychologist, 73(3), 243-255.

Chen, P. and Bryan, A. "Judging the ‘Vapid and Hollow Charade’: Citizen Evaluations and the Candor of U.S. Supreme Court Nominees." Political Behavior, 40(2), 495-520.

Chen, P. and Mohanty, R. "Obama’s Economy: Conditional Racial Spillover into Evaluations of the Economy." International Journal of Public Opinion Research, 30(3), 365-390.

Chen, P. and Palmer, C. "The Prejudiced Personality? Using the Big Five to Predict Susceptibility to Stereotyping Behavior." American Politics Research, 46(2), 276-307.

Federico, C. M., & Aguilera, R. "The distinct pattern of relationships between the Big Five and racial resentment among white Americans." Social Psychological & Personality Science.

Federico, C. M., & Ekstrom, P. D. "The political self: How identity aligns preferences with epistemic needs." Psychological Science.

Federico, C. M., & Golec de Zavala, A. "Collective narcissism and the 2016 U.S. presidential vote." Public Opinion Quarterly, 82, 110-121.

Federico, C. M., & Malka, A. "The contingent, contextual nature of the relationship between needs for security and certainty and political preferences: Evidence and implications." Advances in Political Psychology, S1, 3-48.

Federico, C. M., Williams, A., & Vitriol, J.A. "The role of system identity threat in conspiracy theory endorsement." European Journal of Social Psychology.

Golec de Zavala, A., & Federico, C. M. "The political self: How identity aligns preferences with epistemic needs." Psychological Science, 29, 901-913.

Golec de Zavala, A., & Federico, C. M. "Collective narcissism and the growth of conspiratorial thinking over the course of the 2016 United States presidential election: A longitudinal analysis." European Journal of Social Psychology.

Han, J., & Federico, C. M. "The polarizing effect of news framing: Comparing the mediating roles of motivated reasoning, self-stereotyping, and intergroup animus." Journal of Communication.

Heimark, K. "Lima: La ciudad de la desconfianza." In Unidad de Analítica (Eds.), Barómetro sobre Ciudad y Espacios Públicos (51-52). Lima: Universidad de Lima.

Kearns, E. M., Asal, V., Walsh, J. I., Federico, C. M., & Lemieux, A. "Political action as a function of grievances, risk, and social identity: An experimental approach." Studies in Conflict & Terrorism

Khan, D., Reifen Tagar, M., Halperin, E., Bäckström, M., Vitriol, J.A., & Liberman, V. "If they can’t change, why support change? Implicit theories about groups, social dominance orientation and political ideology." Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 6(1),151-173.

Knowles, R. T., & Clark, C. H. "How common is the common good? Moving beyond idealistic notions of deliberative democracy in education." Teaching and Teacher Education, 71, 12–23.

Ksiazkiewicz, A., Vitriol, J.A., & Farhart, C. "Implicit candidate trait perceptions in political campaigns." Political Psychology, 39(1), 177-195.

Luttig, M. D. "The 'Prejudiced Personality' and the Origins of Partisan Strength, Affective Polarization, and Partisan Sorting." Advances in Political Psychology, 39.S1: 239-256.

Motta, M. P. "The Polarizing Effects of the March for Science on Attitudes Toward Scientists." PS: Political Science & Politics, 1-6.

Motta, M., Callaghan, T., and Sylvester, S. "Knowing Less but Presuming More: Dunning-Kruger Effects and the Endorsement of Anti-Vaccine Policy Attitudes." Social Science and Medicine, 211, 274-281.

Smith, B. A., Murib, Z., Motta, M., Callaghan, T. H., & Theys, M. "'Gay' or 'Homosexual'? The Implications of Social Category Labels for the Structure of Mass Attitudes." American Politics Research, 46(2), 336-372.

Toff, B, and Nielsen, R.K. “'I Just Google It': Folk Theories of Distributed Discovery." Journal of Communication, 18(3): 636-657.

Toff, B. "Rethinking the Debate Over Recent Polling Failures." Political Communication, 35(2): 327-332.

Vitriol, J. A., Appleby, J., & Borgida, E. "Racial Bias Increases False Identification of Black Suspects in Simultaneous Lineups." Social Psychological and Personality Science.

Vitriol, J.A. & Kovera, M.B. "Death qualification may not increase convictions despite pretrial presumption of guilt." Law and Human Behavior.

Vitriol, J.A., & Marsh, J. "The illusion of explanatory depth and endorsement of conspiracy beliefs." European Journal of Social Psychology.

Vitriol, J.A., Ksiazkiewicz, A, & Farhart, C. "Implicit trait perceptions in the 2016 presidential election: Replicating a dual-process model of candidate evaluations." Electoral Studies.

Appleby, J., & Federico, C. M. "The racialization of electoral fairness in the 2008 and 2012 United States presidential elections." Group Processes & Intergroup Relations.

Callaghan, T. H., & Jacobs, L. R. "The future of health care reform: What is driving enrollment?" Journal of health politics, policy and law, 42(2), 215-246.

Callaghan, T., & Olson, A. "Unearthing the hidden welfare state: Race, political attitudes, and unforeseen consequences." Journal of Race, Ethnicity and Politics, 2(1), 63-87.

Clark, C. H. "Examining the relationship between civic education and partisan alignment in young voters." Theory and Research in Social Education, 45(2), 218-247. 

Cramer, K. J., and Toff, B. "The Fact of Experience: Rethinking Political Knowledge and Civic Competence." Perspectives on Politics, 15(3): 754-770.

Federico, C. M., Fisher, E. L., & Deason, G. "The authoritarian left withdraws from politics: Ideological asymmetry in the relationship between authoritarianism and political engagement." Journal of Politics, 79, 1010-1023.

Goren, P., & Chapp, C. "Moral power: How public opinion on culture war issues shapes partisan predispositions and religious orientations." American Political Science Review, 111(1), 110-128.

Han, J., & Federico, C. M. "Conflict-framed news, self-categorization, and partisan polarization." Mass Communication and Society, 20, 455-480.

Johnston, C. D., Lavine, H. G., & Federico, C. M. "Open versus closed: Personality, identity, and the politics of redistribution." Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

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