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Christopher M. Federico

Christopher M. Federico

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Political Science

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44
Citations
9926
World Ranking
378
National Ranking
214

Psychology

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42
Citations
9280
World Ranking
7464
National Ranking
4034

Overview

Christopher M. Federico is affiliated with the University of Minnesota in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within social sciences, with particular emphasis on psychology and political science.

The primary fields of study for this researcher include:

  • Social Sciences
  • Psychology

Within these fields, Federico focuses on several subfields such as:

  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Social Psychology
  • Political Science and International Relations
  • Communication
  • Clinical Psychology

The main topics explored in Federico's work are diverse and include:

  • Social and Intergroup Psychology
  • Cultural Differences and Values
  • Electoral Systems and Political Participation
  • Social Media and Politics
  • Religion and Society Interactions
  • Misinformation and Its Impacts
  • Social and Cultural Dynamics

Federico has published in several notable venues. The most frequent publication venues include:

  • Political Psychology
  • PsycEXTRA Dataset
  • Social Psychological and Personality Science
  • Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
  • Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion

Key recent papers authored or coauthored by Federico encompass a range of topics related to social psychology and political behavior:

  • "Collective Narcissism, In-Group Satisfaction, and Solidarity in the Face of COVID-19" (2020, Social Psychological and Personality Science)
  • "Collective Narcissism as a Basis for Nationalism" (2022, Political Psychology)
  • "The Ideological and Religious Bases of Attitudes Toward Pope Francis in the United States" (2021, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion)

Frequent collaborators with Federico include:

  • Agnieszka Golec de Zavala
  • Ariel Malka
  • Hui Bai
  • Eugene Borgida
  • Tomasz Baran

Best Publications

  • Political ideology: Its structure, functions, and elective affinities

    John T. Jost;Christopher M. Federico;Jaime L. Napier

  • Source Cues, Partisan Identities, and Political Value Expression

    Paul N Goren;Christopher M Federico;Miki Caul Kittilson

  • Racism, ideology, and affirmative action revisited: the antecedents and consequences of "principled objections" to affirmative action.

    Christopher M. Federico;James Sidanius

  • Ethnic Identity, Legitimizing Ideologies, and Social Status: A Matter of Ideological Asymmetry

    Shana Levin;Jim Sidanius;Joshua L. Rabinowitz;Christopher Federico

  • Legitimizing ideologies: The social dominance approach.

    Jim Sidanius;Shana Levin;Christopher M. Federico;Felicia Pratto

  • Social Dominance Orientation and Intergroup Bias: The Legitimation of Favoritism for High-Status Groups

    Shana Levin;Christopher M. Federico;Jim Sidanius;Joshua L. Rabinowitz

  • The Relationship Between the Need for Closure and Support for Military Action Against Iraq: Moderating Effects of National Attachment

    Christopher M. Federico;Agnieszka Golec;Jessica L. Dial

  • Sophistication and the Antecedents of Whites' Racial Policy Attitudes: Racism, Ideology, and Affirmative Action in America

    Christopher M. Federico;James Sidanius

  • Mapping the Connections between Politics and Morality: The Multiple Sociopolitical Orientations Involved in Moral Intuition

    Christopher M. Federico;Christopher R. Weber;Damla Ergun;Corrie Hunt

  • Moral Foundations and Heterogeneity in Ideological Preferences

    Christopher R. Weber;Christopher M. Federico

  • Interpersonal Attachment and Patterns of Ideological Belief

    Christopher Weber;Christopher M. Federico

  • Rural residence as a determinant of attitudes toward US immigration policy

    Katherine Fennelly;Christopher Federico

  • The positive effect of negative emotions in protracted conflict: The case of anger

    Michal Reifen Tagar;Christopher M. Federico;Eran Halperin

  • The Contingent, Contextual Nature of the Relationship Between Needs for Security and Certainty and Political Preferences: Evidence and Implications

    Christopher M. Federico;Ariel Malka

  • Political Expertise and the Use of Ideology: Moderating Effects of Evaluative Motivation

    Christopher M. Federico;Monica C. Schneider

  • Understanding responses to political conflict: interactive effects of the need for closure and salient conflict schemas.

    Agnieszka Golec;Christopher M. Federico

  • Open versus Closed: Personality, Identity, and the Politics of Redistribution

    Christopher D. Johnston;Howard G. Lavine;Christopher M. Federico

  • Low self-esteem predicts out-group derogation via collective narcissism, but this relationship is obscured by in-group satisfaction.

    Agnieszka Golec de Zavala;Christopher M. Federico;Constantine Sedikides;Rita Guerra

  • When Do Welfare Attitudes Become Racialized? The Paradoxical Effects of Education

    Christopher M. Federico

  • Collective Narcissism and the 2016 US Presidential Vote

    Christopher M Federico;Agnieszka Golec de Zavala

  • Collective narcissism and the growth of conspiracy thinking over the course of the 2016 United States presidential election: A longitudinal analysis

    Agnieszka Golec de Zavala;Agnieszka Golec de Zavala;Christopher M. Federico

  • Prius or Pickup? How the Answers to Four Simple Questions Explain America's Great Divide by Marc Hetherington and Jonathan Weiler. Boston, MA, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018. 289 pp. $28.00.

    Christopher M. Federico

  • Open versus Closed

    Christopher D. Johnston;Howard G. Lavine;Christopher M. Federico

  • Us against them

    Christopher M. Federico

Frequent Co-Authors

Jim Sidanius
Jim Sidanius Harvard University
Eugene Borgida
Eugene Borgida University of Minnesota
Shana Levin
Shana Levin Claremont McKenna College
John T. Jost
John T. Jost New York University
Constantine Sedikides
Constantine Sedikides University of Southampton
Leonie Huddy
Leonie Huddy Stony Brook University
Victor Asal
Victor Asal University at Albany, State University of New York
Felicia Pratto
Felicia Pratto University of Connecticut
John L. Sullivan
John L. Sullivan University of Minnesota

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