The Hot Politics Lab has contributed to the conceptual development of populism, and an understanding of its psychological roots. In, for example, this paper Matthijs Rooduijn contributes to the conceptual development of populism, as well as setting a future research agenda. In joint work we find that the personality trait Agreeableness predicts populist voting. Across countries, and different left-wing or right-wing populist parties, we find that low Agreeable individuals are more likely to support populists. Using a survey experiment we find that in particular anti-establishment rhetoric links Agreeableness to populist voting.
| Nr. | Citation |
| 1 | Delaney Peterson, Matthijs Rooduijn, Frederic R. Hopp, Gijs Schumacher & Bert N. Bakker (2025). Loneliness is positively associated with populist radical right support. Social Science & Medicine |
| 2 | Ranganatha, N., Komáromy, D., & Rooduijn, M. (2025). Populism and Affective Polarization Handbook of Affective Polarization |
| 3 | Dániel Komáromy, Matthijs Rooduijn, Gijs Schumacher (2024). Mapping the populist mind: A network approach to integrate sociological and psychological models of the populist radical right. Frontiers in Political Science |
| 4 | Komáromy, D., Rooduijn, M., & Schumacher, G. (2024). Mapping the populist mind: A network approach to integrate sociological and psychological models of the populist radical right Frontiers in Political Science |
| 5 | Gijs Schumacher, Matthijs Rooduijn & Bert N. Bakker (2022). Hot Populism? Affective responses to antiestablishment Rhetoric. Political Psychology |
| 6 | Harteveld, E., Mendoza, P., & Rooduijn, M. (2022). Affective polarization and the populist radical right: creating the hating? Government and Opposition |
| 7 | Maher, P. J., Lüders, A., Erisen, E., Rooduijn, M., & Jonas, E. M. (2022). The many guises of populism and crisis: Introduction to the special issue on populism and global crises. Political Psychology |
| 8 | Bert N. Bakker, Gijs Schumacher & Matthijs Rooduijn (2021). The populist appeal. Personality and anti-establishment communication. The Journal of Politics |
| 9 | De Bruycker, Iskander, and Matthijs Rooduijn (2021). The People’s Champions? Populist Communication as a Contextually Dependent Political Strategy. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly |
| 10 | Rooduijn, Matthijs, Bart Bonikowski, and Jante Parlevliet (2021). Populist and nativist attitudes: does in-group/out-group thinking spill over across domains. European Union Politics |
| 11 | Burgoon, Brian, and Matthijs Rooduijn (2021). ‘Immigrationization’ of welfare politics? Anti-immigration and welfare attitudes in context West European Politics |
| 12 | Gijs Schumacher, Bert N. Bakker, Matthijs Rooduijn, & Maaike D. Homan (2021). Politiek: Zweten, fronsen en walgen. Sociologie Magazine |
| 13 | Bert N. Bakker, Gijs Schumacher & Matthijs Rooduijn (2020). Hot Politics? Affective responses to political rhetoric. American Political Science Review |
| 14 | Maaike Homan (2020). Alexander Todorov’s Face Value: The Irresistible Influence of First Impressions. Politics and Life Sciences |
| 15 | Bert N. Bakker, Gijs Schumacher & Maaike Homan (2020). Yikes. Are we disgusted by politicians? Politics and Life Sciences |
| 16 | Matthijs Rooduijn (2019). How to study populism and adjacent topics? A plea for both more and less focus. European Journal of Political Research |
| 17 | Matthijs Rooduijn & Stijn van Kessel (2019). Populism and Euroscepticism in the European Union. Oxford Encyclopedia of European Union Politics |
| 18 | Burgoon, Brian, Sam van Noort, Matthijs Rooduijn & Geoffrey Underhill (2019). Positional Deprivation and Support for Radical Right And Radical Left Parties. Economic Policy |
| 19 | Bonikowski, Bart, Daphne Halikiopoulou, Eric Kaufmann, and Matthijs Rooduijn (2019). Populism and nationalism in a comparative perspective: a scholarly exchange. Nations and Nationalism |
| 20 | Rooduijn, Matthijs (2019). How to study populism and adjacent topics? A plea for both more and less focus. European Journal of Political Research |
| 21 | Rooduijn, M., Van Kessel, S., Froio, C., Pirro, A., De Lange, S., Halikiopoulou, D., … & Taggart, P. (2019). The PopuList: An overview of populist, far right, far left and Eurosceptic parties in Europe. |
| 22 | Rooduijn, Matthijs (2018). What Unites the Voter Bases of Populist Parties? Comparing the Electorates of 15 Populist Parties in Western Europe. European Political Science Review |
| 23 | Rooduijn, Matthijs, Brian Burgoon, Erika van Elsas & Herman van de Werfhorst (2017). Radical Distinction: Support for Radical Left and Radical Right Parties in Europe. European Union Politics |
| 24 | Rooduijn, Matthijs, Wouter van der Brug, Sarah L de Lange & Jante Parlevliet (2017). Persuasive Populism? Estimating the Effect of Populist Messages on Political Cynicism. Politics and Governance |
| 25 | Rooduijn, Matthijs & Tjitske Akkerman (2017). Flank Attacks: Populism and Left-Right Radicalism in Western Europe. Party Politics |
| 26 | Bert N. Bakker, Matthijs Rooduijn, & Gijs Schumacher (2016). The Psychological Roots of Populist Voting: Evidence from the United States, the Netherlands and Germany. European Journal of Political Research |
| 27 | Rooduijn, Matthijs, Wouter van der Brug & Sarah L de Lange (2016). Expressing or Fuelling Discontent? The Relationship Between Populist Voting and Political Discontent. Electoral Studies |
| 28 | Akkerman, Tjitske & Matthijs Rooduijn (2015). Pariahs or Partners? Inclusion and exclusion of radical right parties and the effects on their policy positions. Political Studies |
| 29 | Rooduijn, Matthijs (2014). The Nucleus of Populism: In Search of the Lowest Common Denominator. Government and Opposition |
| 30 | Rooduijn, Matthijs (2014). The Mesmerising Message: The Diffusion of Populism in Public Debates in Western European Media. Political Studies |
| 31 | Rooduijn, Matthijs, Sarah L de Lange & Wouter van der Brug (2014). A Populist Zeitgeist? Programmatic Contagion by Populist Parties in Western Europe. Party Politics |
| 32 | Rooduijn, Matthijs (2014). Vox Populismus: A Populist Radical Right Attitude Among the Public. Nations and Nationalism |
| 33 | Rooduijn, Matthijs, Sarah L de Lange en Wouter van der Brug (2012). Een populistische tijdgeest? Discursieve reacties op het succes van populistische partijen in West-Europa. Sociologie |
| 34 | Rooduijn, Matthijs & Teun Pauwels (2011). Measuring Populism: Comparing Two Methods of Content Analysis. West European Politics |
