sample of publications

• articles 

  • Women also know stuff: challenging the gender gap in political sophistication.  American Political Science Review.  188:903-921. 2024
  • Lexical ambiguity in political rhetoric: why morality doesn't fit in a bag of words.  British Journal of Political Science.  54:201-219. 2024
  • When information is not enough for strategic voting.  Electoral Studies.  86:102692-1-102692-6. 2023
  • Complaints about police misconduct have adverse effects for Black civilians.  Political Science Research and Methods.  1-24. 2023
  • Glass half-full or half empty: does optimism about women's representation in elected office matter?.  Journal of Women, Politics and Policy.  44:139-151. 2023
  • Asking the right questions: a framework for developing gender-balanced political knowledge batteries.  Political Research Quarterly.  76:393-406. 2023
  • Hypothesis testing with error correction models.  Political Science Research and Methods.  10:870-878. 2022
  • Reliable Sources? Correcting Misinformation in Polarized Media Environments.  American Politics Research.  50:17-29. 2022
  • Social media and the changing information environment: Sentiment differences in read versus recirculated news content.  Public Opinion Quarterly.  84:195-215. 2020
  • Personality and Prosocial Behavior: A Multilevel Meta-Analysis.  Political Science Research and Methods.  7:125-142. 2019
  • Measuring Morality in Political Attitude Expression.  Journal of Politics.  80:1028-1033. 2018
  • The general error correction model in practice.  Research and Politics.  4. 2017
  • Why People "Don't Trust the Evidence": Motivated Reasoning and Scientific Beliefs.  Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.  658:121-133. 2015

• book chapters 

  • Change My View: Do Moral Appeals Facilitate Compromise?. In: Informationsflüsse, Wahlen und Demokratie. Festschrift für Rüdiger Schmitt¿Beck.  169-196. 2023
  • Political Information Flows and Consistent Voting: Personal Conversations, Mass Media, Party Campaigns and the Quality of Voting Decisions at the 2009 German Federal Election. In: Voters on the Move or on the Run? Information-processing and Vote Choice in a Complex World.  Oxford University Press (Ed.). 193-216. 2014
  • Helfen politische Gespräche, "korrekt" zu wählen? Eine Analyse zur Bundestagswahl 2009. In: Zivile Bürgergesellschaft und Demokratie. Aktuelle Ergebnisse der empirischen Politikforschung.  SPRINGER. 117-138. 2013