2026 David P. Redlawsk: Political Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Political Science	27	1414	1288	705	620	134	7824

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Overview

David P. Redlawsk is affiliated with the University of Delaware in the United States. Their research is situated mainly within the social sciences, with a focus on sociology and political science as primary subfields. Additional subfields of study include social psychology, artificial intelligence, communication, and political science and international relations.

Their work covers a range of topics with particular emphasis on social and intergroup psychology, social media and politics, emotions and moral behavior, media influence and politics, and misinformation and its impacts. Other notable areas include psychology of moral and emotional judgment as well as hate speech and cyberbullying detection.

Recent publications by David P. Redlawsk include:

"Modeling Polarizing Topics: When Do Different Political Communities Respond Differently to the Same News?" (2021), Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
"The Effects of Politician's Moral Violations on Voters' Moral Emotions" (2021), Political Behavior
"Voluntary Exposure to Political Fact Checks" (2020), Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly
"Partisan Differences in Voters' Desire for Punishment in Response to Politicians' Moral Transgressions" (2024), American Politics Research
"Academic Freedom Under Attack in Turkey: 2019 Presidential Address, International Society of Political Psychology" (2021), Political Psychology

Frequent coauthors collaborating with David P. Redlawsk include Annemarie S. Walter, Kyle Mattes, Richard R. Lau, Ramnath Balasubramanyan, and William W. Cohen.

Their scholarly work appears across multiple publication venues, such as:

Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
Political Behavior
Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly
American Politics Research
Political Psychology

Best Publications

Advantages and Disadvantages of Cognitive Heuristics in Political Decision Making

Richard R. Lau;David P. Redlawsk

2027
Citations
Hot Cognition or Cool Consideration? Testing the Effects of Motivated Reasoning on Political Decision Making

David P. Redlawsk

1232
Citations
The Affective Tipping Point: Do Motivated Reasoners Ever “Get It”?

David P. Redlawsk;Andrew J. W. Civettini;Karen M. Emmerson

585
Citations
How Voters Decide

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485
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Voting Correctly

Unknown

426
Citations
An Exploration of Correct Voting in Recent U.S. Presidential Elections

Richard R. Lau;David J. Andersen;David P. Redlawsk

271
Citations
What Voters Do: Information Search During Election Campaigns

David P. Redlawsk

220
Citations
Gender Stereotypes, Information Search, and Voting Behavior in Political Campaigns

Tessa M. Ditonto;Allison J. Hamilton;David P. Redlawsk

190
Citations
POPULAR INTERPRETATIONS OF 'CORRUPTION' AND THEIR PARTISAN CONSEQUENCES

David P. Redlawsk;James A. McCann

177
Citations
Framing Labels and Immigration Policy Attitudes in the Iowa Caucuses: “Trying to Out-Tancredo Tancredo”

Benjamin R. Knoll;David P. Redlawsk;Howard Sanborn

173
Citations
You Must Remember This: A Test of the On-Line Model of Voting

David P. Redlawsk

167
Citations
The Positive Case for Negative Campaigning

Kyle Mattes;David P. Redlawsk

157
Citations
7. Affective Intelligence and Voting: Information Processing and Learning in a Campaign

david p. redlawsk;Andrew J . W. Civettini;Richard R. Lau

148
Citations
Voters, Emotions, and Race in 2008: Obama as the First Black President

David P. Redlawsk;Caroline J. Tolbert;William Franko

126
Citations
Feeling politics : emotion in political information processing

David P. Redlawsk

119
Citations
Voters, Emotions, and Memory

Andrew J. W. Civettini;David P. Redlawsk

102
Citations
Older but Wiser? Effects of Age on Political Cognition

Richard R. Lau;David P. Redlawsk

97
Citations
Effect of Media Environment Diversity and Advertising Tone on Information Search, Selective Exposure, and Affective Polarization

Richard R. Lau;David J. Andersen;Tessa M. Ditonto;Mona S. Kleinberg

94
Citations
Behavioral Decision-Making

David P. Redlawsk;Richard R. Lau

89
Citations
Citizens and Politics: An Experimental Study of Information Search, Memory, and Decision Making During a Political Campaign

Richard R. Lau;David P. Redlawsk

88
Citations
Politics, sharing and emotion in microblogs

Tuan-Anh Hoang;William W. Cohen;Ee-Peng Lim;Doug Pierce

59
Citations
Modeling Polarizing Topics: When Do Different Political Communities Respond Differently to the Same News?

Ramnath Balasubramanyan;William W. Cohen;Douglas Pierce;David P. Redlawsk

42
Citations
How Voters Decide: Voting Correctly

Richard R. Lau;David P. Redlawsk

2
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard R. Lau Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Caroline J. Tolbert University of Iowa

William W. Cohen Carnegie Mellon University

Todd Donovan Western Washington University

Ee-Peng Lim Singapore Management University

Matt A. Barreto University of California, Los Angeles

External Links

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