Highlights•Political conservatives are more likely than liberals to:•Prioritize values of
conformity and tradition.•Desire shared reality with like-minded others.•Exaggerate within …

Mental health concerns of people impacted by the coronavirus pandemic have not been
adequately addressed. The objective of this study was to develop and evaluate the …

The present study examined the psychometric properties of the Coronavirus Anxiety Scale
(CAS) using an online survey of 398 adult Amazon MTurk workers in the US Confirmatory …

It is often claimed that conspiracy theories are endorsed with the same level of intensity
across the left‐right ideological spectrum. But do liberals and conservatives in the United …

Easy access to equipment, software, and platforms to create, distribute, and provide access
to fake news stories has exacerbated the problem of fake news, making for a large number …

This paper presents results from a comparative and qualitative discourse-historical analysis
of governmental crisis communication in Austria, Germany, France, Hungary and Sweden …

Individuals are not merely passive vessels of whatever beliefs and opinions they have been
exposed to; rather, they are attracted to belief systems that resonate with their own …

Public response to the COVID‐19 pandemic provides a unique opportunity to study risk
perception in relation to political orientation. We tested a risk perception model of how …

The conjecture that negative emotions underpin support for far‐right politics is common
among pundits and scholars. The conventional account holds that authoritarian populists …

How does terrorism affect citizens' political attitudes? Over the years, many scholars have
tried to answer this question. This article performs a meta‐analysis on this literature …