Publications - Political Psychology Lab

Journal Articles

  • Tanase, L, Dewies, M., Reisch, L., & de-Wit (in press). Perception gaps in British Parliament reveal a possible pathway to stronger climate policy action. Communications Sustainability.
  • Ackland, J., & de-Wit (in press). Ideological Misalignment in Britain. Statistics and Public Policy. 
  • Young,. D & de-Wit, L. (in press). The Bias-and-Expertise Model: A Bayesian Network Model of Political Source Characteristics. Cognitive Science.
  • Young, D. Ackland, J., Madsen, J., Greening, L., de-Wit, L (in press). A new measure of issue polarisation using k-means clustering: US trends 1988-2024 and predictors of polarisation across the world. Royal Society Open Science. 
  • Buchanan, T., Young, D. J., Ackland, J., Renwick, A., & de-Wit, L. (2025). An authoritarianism-compatible text changes British attitudes towards EU immigration. Scientific Reports, 15(1), 31724.
  • Dewies, M., de-Wit, L., & Reisch, L. A. (2025). Assumptions about behaviour influence the policy preferences of public officials. Public Management Review, 1-30.
  • Young, D. J., Madsen, J. K., & de-Wit, L. H. (2025). Belief polarization can be caused by disagreements over source independence: Computational modelling, experimental evidence, and applicability to real-world politics. Cognition, 259, 106126. 
  • Madsen, J.*, de-Wit, L.* Ayton, P., Brick, C., de-Moliere, L. & Groom C. (2024). Behavioural science should start by assuming people are reasonable. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. *Joint First Author
  • Mahieux, E., de-Wit, L., Otten, L., Devlin, J., & Wicha N. (2024, in press). The N400 captures naunces in political preferences. Scientific Reports.
  • Tartaglione, J. & de-Wit (2024, in press). How the manner in which data is visulaized affects and corrects (mis)perceptions of political polarization. British Journal of Social Psychology
  • Young, D. & de-Wit (2024). Within Party Affective Polarization. Political Psychology
  • Ghai, S., de-Wit, L., Mak, Y. (2023). How we investigated the diversity of our undergraduate corriculum. Nature. 
  • Buchanan, T, Ackland, J., Lloyd, S. van der Linden, S., de-Wit, L. (2022). Clear consensus among international public for government action at COP26: Patriotic and public health frames produce marginal gains in support. Climatic Change. 
  • Brick, C., Hood, B., Ekroll, V., de-Wit, L. (2022). Illusory Essences: A bias holding back theorizing in psychological science. Perspectives on Psychological Science.  Illusory essences: A bias holding back theorizing in psychological science
  • Walker, C., O’Neill, S., de-Wit, L., & Isham, E. (2020). Evidence of Psychological Targeting but not Psychological Tailoring in Political Persuasion Around Brexit. Experimental Results, 1.
  • El Zein, M., Seikus, C., de-Wit, L., & Bahrami, B. (2020). Punishing the individual or the group for norm violation. Wellcome Open Research, 4(139), 139.
  • Rollwage, M., Zmigrod, L. de-Wit, L., Dolan, R., Fleming, S. (2019). What underlies political polarization? A manifesto for computational political psychology. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 
  • Lewis, G. & de-Wit L. (2019). How many ways to say goodbye? The latent class structure and psychological correlates of European Union sentiment in a large sample of UK adults. Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 7 (1), 556-576.

For a full list of Lee de-Wit’s publications see Google Scholar.

Blog Posts

  • de-Wit, L. (2021). Politics is no longer about left or right, as the Tories have realised to their advantage. The Guardian. 
  • Buchana, T, de-Wit, L, & Renwick, A. (2019). What policy do British voters want on EU immigration? Is there a hidden consensus? LSE Brexit Blog.
  • de-Wit, L., Brick, C., Van der Linden, S. (2019). What Are the Solutions to Political Polarization? Published by the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley.