Academic Work

Journal articles

• 2026

• Professional and community-based fact-checking show different strengths, but neither performs strongly across trust, scalability, and impact

  Petter Bae Brandtzaeg, Silje Susanne Alvestad, Jonas R. Kunst, Asbjørn Følstad

  Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review · 2026 · Misinformation & AI · Plain-language summary

• The mental health–politics nexus: How mental health trajectories from adolescence to midlife shape political attitudes and voting patterns

  Sam Fluit, Kinga Bierwiaczonek, Jonas R. Kunst, Tilmann von Soest

  Political Psychology, 47 · 2026 · Intergroup relations · Plain-language summary

• Reply to Romano and De Dreu: Why violent extremism cannot be reduced to laboratory games

  Jonas R. Kunst, Tomasz Besta, Milan Obaidi

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 123 · 2026 · Violent extremism

• Reply to Zadegan et al.: Spatial dependence is real, but not every correction travels well

  Jonas R. Kunst, Tomasz Besta, Milan Obaidi

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 123 · 2026 · Violent extremism

• The psychology of offensive and defensive intergroup violence: Preregistered insights from 58 countries

  Jonas R. Kunst, Tomasz Besta, Michał Jaśkiewicz, Anna Natalia Gajda, Markus Sanden, Mina Marie Flatebø, Sulaiman Olanrewaju Adebayo, Marios Adonis, Collins Badu Agyemang, Raymond Agyenim Boateng, Serap Arslan Akfirat, Samir Al-adawi, Chiara Ambrosio, Gulnaz Anjum, John Jamir Benzon R. Aruta, Ivars Austers, Oumar Barry, Brock Bastian, Maja Becker, Michael Bender, and 93 others

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 123 · 2026 · Violent extremism · Plain-language summary

• Intelligent Systems, Vulnerable Minds: A Framework for Radicalization to Violence in the Age of AI

  Jonas R. Kunst, Milan Obaidi, Anton Gollwitzer, Petter B. Brandtzæg, Yannic Hinrichs, Neha Saini, Daniel T. Schroeder

  Personality and Social Psychology Review · 2026 · Violent extremism · Plain-language summary

• ‘They're eating our pets!’: When disgust and perceived cruelty combine to heighten prejudice

  Sasha Y. Kimel, Jonas R. Kunst, Fatih Uenal, Viridiana Kim

  British Journal of Social Psychology, 65 · 2026 · Intergroup relations

• How malicious AI swarms can threaten democracy

  Daniel Thilo Schroeder, Meeyoung Cha, Andrea Baronchelli, Nick Bostrom, Nicholas A. Christakis, David Garcia, Amit Goldenberg, Yara Kyrychenko, Kevin Leyton-Brown, Nina Lutz, Gary Marcus, Filippo Menczer, Gordon Pennycook, David G. Rand, Maria Ressa, Frank Schweitzer, Dawn Song, Christopher Summerfield, Audrey Tang, Jay J. Van Bavel, Sander van der Linden, Jonas R. Kunst

  Science, 391 · 2026 · Misinformation & AI · Plain-language summary

• Acculturation Reimagined—Charting new directions in a pluralistic world

  David L. Sam, Jonas R. Kunst

  advances.in/psychology, 1 · 2026 · Acculturation
• 2025

• A Meta-Analysis of Social and Contextual Correlates of Migrant Adaptation to Living in Receiving Societies

  Kinga Bierwiaczonek, Dinh H. Vu, Rongtian Tong, Mike W.-L. Cheung, Nora C. G. Benningstad, Evita van Duin, Karine Lindholm, Colleen Ward, Jonas R. Kunst

  Nature Communications · 2025 · Acculturation · Plain-language summary

• The Dual Impact of Believing and Spreading Conspiracy Theories: Independent and Interactive Effects on Social Perceptions and Orientations

  Aleksander B. Gundersen, Mikey Biddlestone, Jonas R. Kunst

  Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology · 2025 · Misinformation & AI

• The Role of (Non)religious Worldviews and Morality in Explaining Attitudes Towards Outgroups

  Tuuli Anna Renvik, Viivi Eskelinen, Teemu Pauha, Jolanda Jetten, Jonas R. Kunst, Jolanda van der Noll, Anette Rohmann, Inga Jasinskaja-Lahti

  The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion · 2025 · Intergroup relations

• The psychology of Querfront tactics: How protesters perceive and navigate conflicting ideologies to mobilise collectively

  Ann‐Cathrin Coenen, Felix J. Feist, Roland Imhoff, Milan Obaidi, Jonas R. Kunst

  British Journal of Social Psychology, 64 · 2025 · Violent extremism

• The role of norms and acculturation in migrants’ willingness to seek mental health care: Results from a large preregistered study

  Samantha M. Harris, Hege H. Bye, Jonas R. Kunst

  Social Science & Medicine, 384 · 2025 · Acculturation

• The link between tobacco smoking and susceptibility to misinformation

  Michal Piksa, Magdalena Zaniewska, Agata Cieslik-Starkiewicz, Jonas R. Kunst, Mikolaj Morzy, Jan Piasecki, Rafal Rygula

  Psychopharmacology · 2025 · Misinformation & AI · Plain-language summary

• Individual and community post‐traumatic growth: A data‐driven examination of person, process, and contextual factors

  Shlomo Black, Jonas R. Kunst

  British Journal of Psychology · 2025

• Multi-region investigation of ‘man’ as default in attitudes

  Curtis Edward Phills, Jeremy K. Miller, Erin M. Buchanan, Amanda Williams, Chanel Meyers, Elizabeth R. Brown, Janis Zickfeld, Selina Volsa, Stefan Stieger, Elisabeth Oberzaucher, Vinka Mlakic, Martin Vasilev, İlker Dalgar, Sami Çoksan, Sinem Söylemez, Çağlar Solak, Asil Ali Özdoğru, Belemir Çoktok, Chun-Chia Kung, Panita Suavansri, … Jonas R. Kunst, and 97 others

  PLOS One, 20 · 2025 · Intergroup relations

• Parental Attitudes and Children’s Language Development: A Cross-Cultural Evaluation of the Early Parenting Attitudes Questionnaire

  Silvia Allegretta, Margarita Gavrilova, Natalia Kartushina, Julien Mayor, Maja Roch, Jonas R. Kunst

  Collabra: Psychology · 2025 · Acculturation

• Understanding perceived COVID-19 changes, collectivism, and social exclusion: A cross-cultural study in 32 countries

  Xiaoyu Zhou, Alexander Scott English, Liuqing Wei, Ananta Yudiarso, Arobindu Dash, Arun Tipandjan, Ashley Biddle, Benjamin H. Nam, Chinun Boonroungrut, Cicilia Chettiar, Paolini Daniele, Dmitrii Dubrov, Dmitry Grigoryev, Dušana Šakan, Eliza Oliver, Elma Medosevic - Korjenic, Adolfo Fabricio Licoa Campos, Felipe Novaes, Fridanna Maricchiolo, Ginés Navarro-Carrillo, … Jonas R. Kunst, and 37 others

  International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 107 · 2025 · Acculturation

• I see sick people: Beliefs about sensory detection of infectious disease are largely consistent across cultures

  Joshua M. Ackerman, Theodore Samore, Daniel M.T. Fessler, Tom R. Kupfer, Soyeon Choi, Wilson N. Merrell, Lene Aarøe, Toivo Aavik, Stephen Acabado, Grace Akello, Ilham N. Alfian, Laith Al-Shawaf, Marinés M. Alvarez, Jeanine Ammann, Gizem Arikan, Saiyeda A. Asha, Anibal M. Astobiza, Carmen G. Baeza-Ugarte, Pat Barclay, Fiona Kate Barlow, … Jonas R. Kunst, and 94 others

  Brain, Behavior, and Immunity · 2025

• Redefining the mainstream: A review and meta-analysis of the evolving dynamics of majority-group acculturation

  Jonas R. Kunst

  European Review of Social Psychology · 2025 · Acculturation · Plain-language summary

• Globalization, immigrant acculturation expectations, and extremism

  Simon Ozer, Milan Obaidi, Jonas R. Kunst

  Migration Studies · 2025 · Violent extremism
• 2024

• Predicting misinformation beliefs across four countries: The role of narcissism, conspiracy mentality, social trust, and perceptions of unsafe neighborhoods

  Aleksander B. Gundersen, Sander van der Linden, Jan Piasecki, Rafał Ryguła, Karolina Noworyta, Jonas R. Kunst

  Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 12 · 2024 · Misinformation & AI

• Toward a Parsimonious Framework for Understanding Emotional Reactions to Conspiracy Theories Across Cultures

  Jonas R. Kunst, Kinga Bierwiaczonek

  Psychological Inquiry · 2024 · Misinformation & AI

• Vulnerability to vigilance – Cultivating psychological resilience against misinformation and conspiracy beliefs: Introduction to the special issue

  Jonas R. Kunst

  advances.in/psychology, 2 · 2024 · Misinformation & AI

• Selective cultural adoption: The roles of warmth, competence, morality and perceived indispensability in majority‐group acculturation

  Jonas R. Kunst, Kinga Bierwiaczonek, Milan Obaidi, Sam Fluit, Tilmann von Soest, David Sam, John F. Dovidio

  British Journal of Social Psychology · 2024 · Acculturation

• Leveraging artificial intelligence to identify the psychological factors associated with conspiracy theory beliefs online

  Jonas R. Kunst, Aleksander B. Gundersen, Izabela Krysińska, Jan Piasecki, Tomi Wójtowicz, Rafal Rygula, Sander van der Linden, Mikolaj Morzy

  Nature Communications, 15 · 2024 · Misinformation & AI · Plain-language summary

• Cultural tightness-looseness and individual differences in non-normativeness predict stigmatization of out-groups: A multilevel cross-cultural study

  Elif G. Ikizer, Ronald Fischer, Jonas R. Kunst, John F. Dovidio

  Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin · 2024 · Intergroup relations

• Development of the passive and active meat-animal dissociation scale (mads)

  Nora C. G. Benningstad, Hank Rothgerber, Jonas R. Kunst

  Psychology of Human-Animal Intergroup Relations · 2024 · Meat & human–animal relations · Plain-language summary

• Beyond singular perspectives: Minority-group members’ acculturation expectations and tightness

  Shlomo Black, Gabriel Horenczyk, Jonas R. Kunst

  International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 100 · 2024 · Acculturation

• Decoding the Dynamics of Cultural Change: A Cultural Evolution Approach to the Psychology of Acculturation

  Jonas R. Kunst, Alex Mesoudi

  Personality and Social Psychology Review · 2024 · Acculturation · Plain-language summary

• Investigating the forgotten side of acculturation: Introduction to the special issue

  Jonas R. Kunst, Katharina Lefringhausen

  International Journal of Intercultural Relations · 2024 · Acculturation

• Attachment and Political Personality are Heritable and Distinct Systems, and Both Share Genetics with Interpersonal Trust and Altruism

  Thomas Haarklau Kleppesto, Nikolai Olavi Czajkowski, Olav Vassend, Espen Roysamb, Nikolai Haahjem Eftedal, Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington, Eivind Ystrom, Jonas R. Kunst, Line C. Gjerde, Lotte Thomsen

  Behavior Genetics · 2024 · Intergroup relations

• Loneliness trajectories over three decades are associated with conspiracist worldviews in midlife

  Kinga Bierwiaczonek, Sam Fluit, Tilmann von Soest, Matthew J. Hornsey, Jonas R. Kunst

  Nature Communications · 2024 · Misinformation & AI · Plain-language summary

• Research Report: A Link between Sertraline Treatment and Susceptibility to (Mis)information

  Michal Piksa, Karolina Noworyta, Jan Piasecki, Aleksander Gundersen, Jonas R. Kunst, Mikolaj Morzy, Rafal Rygula

  ACS Chemical Neuroscience · 2024 · Misinformation & AI · Plain-language summary

• Finding your roots: Do DNA ancestry tests increase racial (in)tolerance?

  Sasha Y. Kimel, Kinga M. Bierwiaczonek, Milan Obaidi, Anita Foeman, Bessie Lawton, James Sidanius, Jonas R. Kunst

  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 30 · 2024 · Intergroup relations

• The genetic underpinnings of right‐wing authoritarianism and social dominance orientation explain political attitudes beyond Big Five personality

  Thomas Haarklau Kleppesto, Nikolai Olavi Czajkowski, Jennifer Sheehy‐Skeffington, Olav Vassend, Espen Roysamb, Nikolai Haahjem Eftedal, Jonas R. Kunst, Eivind Ystrom, Lotte Thomsen

  Journal of Personality · 2024 · Intergroup relations · Plain-language summary

• The role of temporal analogies in collective movements

  Ann-Cathrin Coenen, Marilena Jüttemeier, Milan Obaidi, Séamus A. Power, Jonas R. Kunst

  European Journal of Social Psychology · 2024 · Intergroup relations

• How identity fusion predicts extreme pro-group orientations: A meta-analysis

  Anders Hustad Varmann, Line Kruse, Kinga Bierwiaczonek, Ángel Gómez, Alexandra Vázquez, Jonas R. Kunst

  European Review of Social Psychology, 35 · 2024 · Violent extremism · Plain-language summary

• Between victory and peace: Unravelling the paradox of hope in intractable conflicts

  Maor Shani, Jonas R. Kunst, Gulnaz Anjum, Milan Obaidi, Oded Adomi Leshem, Roman Antonovsky, Maarten van Zalk, Eran Halperin

  British Journal of Social Psychology, 63 · 2024 · Intergroup relations · Plain-language summary
• 2023

• Hacking attractiveness biases in hiring? The role of beautifying photo-filters

  Jonas R. Kunst, Jannicke Kirkøen, Onab Mohamdain

  Management Decision, 61 · 2023 · Intergroup relations

• The influence of musical parameters and subjective musical ratings on perceptions of culture

  John Melvin Treider, Jonas R. Kunst, Jonna K. Vuoskoski

  Scientific Reports, 13 · 2023 · Acculturation

• Delineating the boundaries between genuine cultural change and cultural appropriation in majority-group acculturation

  Jonas R. Kunst, Katharina Lefringhausen, Hanna Zagefka

  International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 98 · 2023 · Acculturation · Plain-language summary

• The role of perceived minority-group status in the conspiracy beliefs of factual majority groups

  Aleksander B. Gundersen, Sander van der Linden, Michał Piksa, Mikołaj Morzy, Jan Piasecki, Rafał Ryguła, Paweł Gwiaździński, Karolina Noworyta, Jonas R. Kunst

  Royal Society Open Science, 10 · 2023 · Misinformation & AI · Plain-language summary

• Investigation of gender bias in the mental imagery of faces

  Jonas R. Kunst, Marilena Juettemeier, April H. Bailey, Gulnaz Anjum, Alexander S. English, Milan Obaidi, David L. Sam, Fatma Yaşın-Tekizoğlu, Collins B. Agyemang

  Group Processes & Intergroup Relations · 2023 · Intergroup relations

• Cultural threat perceptions predict violent extremism via need for cognitive closure

  Milan Obaidi, Gulnaz Anjum, Kinga Bierwiaczonek, John F. Dovidio, Simon Ozer, Jonas R. Kunst

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120 · 2023 · Violent extremism · Plain-language summary

• Utilizing AI questionnaire translations in cross-cultural and intercultural research: Insights and recommendations

  Jonas R. Kunst, Kinga Bierwiaczonek

  International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 97 · 2023 · Acculturation

• How do Australian majority-group members acculturate? A person-centred approach

  Justine Dandy, Adrian Doidge, Katharina Lefringhausen, Jonas R. Kunst, Abraham Kenin

  International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 97 · 2023 · Acculturation

• Are we willing to share what we believe is true? Factors influencing susceptibility to fake news

  Michal Piksa, Karolina Noworyta, Aleksander B. Gundersen, Jonas R. Kunst, Mikolaj Morzy, Jan Piasecki, Rafal Rygula

  Frontiers in Psychiatry · 2023 · Misinformation & AI

• How are acculturation orientations associated among majority-group members? The moderating role of ideology and levels of identity

  Jonas R. Kunst, Ann-Cathrin Coenen, Aleksander Gundersen, Milan Obaidi

  International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 96 · 2023 · Acculturation

• Support for religious minorities' rights among (non)religious national majority group members: A motivational approach to worldviews

  Tuuli Anna Renvik, Viivi Eskelinen, Jonas R. Kunst, Jolanda Jetten, Jolanda van der Noll, Anette Rohmann, Inga Jasinskaja‐Lahti

  Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, 33 · 2023 · Intergroup relations

• Psychological interventions countering misinformation in social media: A scoping review

  Paweł Gwiaździński, Aleksander B. Gundersen, Michal Piksa, Izabela Krysińska, Jonas R. Kunst, Karolina Noworyta, Agata Olejniuk, Mikołaj Morzy, Rafal Rygula, Tomi Wójtowicz, Jan Piasecki

  Frontiers in Psychiatry · 2023 · Misinformation & AI · Plain-language summary

• Self-esteem trajectories over three decades predict opposition to social equality in midlife

  Sam Fluit, Jonas R. Kunst, Kinga Bierwiaczonek, Tilmann von Soest

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2023 · Intergroup relations · Plain-language summary

• Majority members’ acculturation: How proximal-acculturation relates to expectations of immigrants and intergroup ideologies over time

  Katharina Lefringhausen, Tara C. Marshall, Nelli Ferenczi, Hanna Zagefka, Jonas R. Kunst

  Group Processes & Intergroup Relations · 2023 · Acculturation

• How ‘should’ the majority group acculturate? Acculturation expectations and their correlates among minority- and majority-group members

  Jonas R. Kunst, Simon Ozer, Katharina Lefringhausen, Kinga Bierwiaczonek, Milan Obaidi, David L. Sam

  International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 93 · 2023 · Acculturation

• Revisiting the integration hypothesis again: High heterogeneity complicates the interpretation of cross-sectional evidence

  Kinga Bierwiaczonek, Mike W.-L. Cheung, Jonas R. Kunst

  International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 93 · 2023 · Acculturation · Plain-language summary

• A STUDY OF THE COGNITIVE MECHANISMS AND PERSONALITY TRAITS RELATED TO DIFFERENT PHENOTYPES OF SUSCEPTIBILITY TO TRUE AND FALSE INFORMATION

  Michal Piksa, Karolina Noworyta, Jan Piasecki, Pawel Gwiazdzinski, Aleksander Gundersen, Jonas R. Kunst, Rafal Rygula

  IBRO Neuroscience Reports · 2023 · Misinformation & AI

• Acculturation preferences and perceived (dis)loyalty of Muslims in the U.K.: Two vignette-based experimental studies

  Hajra Tahir, Jonas R. Kunst, David Lackland Sam

  International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 93 · 2023 · Acculturation

• What Makes a Terrorist? Muslims’ and non-Muslims’ Lay Perceptions of Risk Factors and Their Consequences for Counterterrorism Policy Support

  Jonas R. Kunst, Milan Obaidi, Ann-Cathrin Coenen, Vilde D. Vasseljen, Paul Gill

  Terrorism and Political Violence, 35 · 2023 · Violent extremism · Plain-language summary
• 2022

• Resilience against radicalization and extremism in schools: Development of a psychometric scale

  David S. Eldor, Karine Lindholm, Maria H. Chavez, Sander Vassanyi, Michelle O. I. Badiane, Kemal Yaldizli, Petter Frøysa, Christian A. P. Haugestad, Jonas R. Kunst

  Frontiers in Psychology · 2022 · Violent extremism · Plain-language summary

• Reinventing Academic Publishing

  Jonas R. Kunst

  advances.in/psychology · 2022

• In COVID-19 Health Messaging, Loss Framing Increases Anxiety with Little-to-No Concomitant Benefits: Experimental Evidence from 84 Countries

  Charles A. Dorison, Jennifer S. Lerner, Blake H. Heller, Alexander J. Rothman, Ichiro I. Kawachi, Ke Wang, Vaughan W. Rees, Brian P. Gill, Nancy Gibbs, Charles R. Ebersole, Zahir Vally, Zuzanna Tajchman, Andras N. Zsido, Mija Zrimsek, Zhang Chen, Ignazio Ziano, Zoi Gialitaki, Chris D. Ceary, Yijun Lin, Yoshihiko Kunisato, … Jonas R. Kunst, and 457 others

  Affective Science · 2022

• Bierwiaczonek, K.*, Gundersen, A.B.*, & Kunst, J.R. (2022). The role of conspiracy beliefs for COVID-19 health

  Jonas R. Kunst

  Current Opinion in Psychology · 2022 · Misinformation & AI · Plain-language summary

• Daily reminders about the animal-welfare, environmental and health consequences of meat and their main and moderated effects on meat consumption

  Ida Strande Ottersen, Nora C.G. Benningstad, Jonas R. Kunst

  Cleaner and Responsible Consumption · 2022 · Meat & human–animal relations · Plain-language summary

• The "Great Replacement" conspiracy: How the perceived ousting of White Europeans can evoke extreme anti-immigrant sentiment

  Milan Obaidi, Jonas R. Kunst, Simon Ozer, Sasha Kimel

  Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 25 · 2022 · Violent extremism · Plain-language summary

• Measuring extremist archetypes: Scale development and validation

  Milan Obaidi, Sara W. Skaar, Simon Ozer, Jonas R. Kunst

  PLOS ONE · 2022 · Violent extremism · Plain-language summary

• Cognitive Processes and Personality Traits Underlying Four Phenotypes of Susceptibility to (Mis)Information

  Michal Piksa, Karolina Noworyta, Jan Piasecki, Pawel Gwiazdzinski, Aleksander B. Gundersen, Jonas R. Kunst, Rafal Rygula

  Frontiers in Psychiatry · 2022 · Misinformation & AI · Plain-language summary

• Delight in Disorder: Inclusively Defining and Operationalizing Implicit Bias

  John F. Dovidio, Jonas R. Kunst

  Psychological Inquiry · 2022 · Intergroup relations

• Psychological Science Accelerator Self-Determination Theory Collaboration (2022). A global experiment on motiv

  Jonas R. Kunst

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2022

• The way they look: Phenotypic prototypicality shapes the perceived intergroup attitudes of in- and out-group members

  Jonas R. Kunst, John F. Dovidio, April H. Bailey, Milan Obaidi

  Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 100 · 2022 · Intergroup relations · Plain-language summary

• Knowledge About Individuals’ Interracial Friendships Is Systematically Associated With Mental Representations of Race, Traits, and Group Solidarity

  Jonas R. Kunst, Ivuoma N. Onyeador, John F. Dovidio

  Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 48 · 2022 · Intergroup relations · Plain-language summary
• 2021

• Disentangling national and religious identification as predictors of support for religious minority rights among Christian majority groups

  Viivi Eskelinen, Tuuli Anna Renvik, Teemu Pauha, Jolanda Jetten, Jonas R. Kunst, Jolanda van der Noll, Anette Rohmann, Inga Jasinskaja‐Lahti

  British Journal of Social Psychology · 2021 · Intergroup relations

• Kunst, J. R. (2021) Are we facing a “causality crisis” in acculturation research? The need for a methodolo

  Jonas R. Kunst

  International Journal of Intercultural Relations · 2021 · Acculturation · Plain-language summary

• A multi-country test of brief reappraisal interventions on emotions during the COVID-19 pandemic

  Ke Wang, Amit Goldenberg, Charles A. Dorison, Jeremy K. Miller, Andero Uusberg, Jennifer S. Lerner, James J. Gross, Bamikole Bamikole Agesin, Márcia Bernardo, Olatz Campos, Luis Eudave, Karolina Grzech, Daphna Hausman Ozery, Emily A. Jackson, Elkin Oswaldo Luis Garcia, Shira Meir Drexler, Anita Penić Jurković, Kafeel Rana, John Paul Wilson, Maria Antoniadi, … Jonas R. Kunst, and 439 others

  Nature Human Behaviour · 2021

• Why do youth participate in climate activism? A mixed-methods investigation of the #FridaysForFuture climate protests.

  Christian A.P. Haugestad, Anja Duun Skauge, Jonas R. Kunst, Séamus A. Power

  Journal of Environmental Psychology · 2021 · Intergroup relations

• Investigating direct and indirect globalization-based acculturation

  Simon Ozer, Jonas R. Kunst, Seth J. Schwartz

  International Journal of Intercultural Relations · 2021 · Acculturation

• Kunst, J.R., Lefringhausen, L., Sam, D., Berry, J. W., & Dovidio J.F. (2021). The missing side of acculturatio

  Jonas R. Kunst

  Current Directions in Psychological Science, 30 · 2021 · Acculturation · Plain-language summary

• Revisiting the Integration Hypothesis: Correlational and Longitudinal Meta-Analyses Demonstrate the Limited Role of Acculturation for Cross-Cultural Adaptation

  Kinga Bierwiaczonek, Jonas R. Kunst

  Psychological Science · 2021 · Acculturation · Plain-language summary

• A new route towards more harmonious intergroup relationships in England? Majority members’ proximal-acculturation

  Katharina Lefringhausen, Nelli Ferenczi, Tara C. Marshall, Jonas R. Kunst

  International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 82 · 2021 · Acculturation

• Exploring religiosity and attitudes towards Christians and non-believers among recent Muslim refugees to Finland

  Viivi Eskelinen, Teemu Pauha, Jonas R. Kunst, Antti Räsänen, Inga Jasinskaja-Lahti

  International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 80 · 2021 · Intergroup relations

• Who adopts the culture of ethnic minority groups? A personality perspective on majority-group members’ acculturation

  Jonas R. Kunst, Katharina Lefringhausen, Sara W. Skaar, Milan Obaidi

  International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 81 · 2021 · Acculturation · Plain-language summary
• 2020

• How Political and Social Trust Can Impact Social Distancing Practices During COVID-19 in Unexpected Ways

  Frederike S. Woelfert, Jonas R. Kunst

  Frontiers in Psychology · 2020 · Intergroup relations

• Ethnic diversity and extremist attitudes in soccer teams: A multi-level investigation

  Ann-Cathrin Coenen, Jonas R. Kunst

  International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 80 · 2020 · Violent extremism

• Belief in COVID‐19 Conspiracy Theories Reduces Social Distancing over Time

  Kinga Bierwiaczonek, Jonas R. Kunst, Olivia Pich

  Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being · 2020 · Misinformation & AI

• The Attitudes of Deconverted and Lifelong Atheists Towards Religious Groups: The Role of Religious and Spiritual Identity

  Teemu Pauha, Tuuli Anna Renvik, Viivi Eskelinen, Jolanda Jetten, Jolanda van der Noll, Jonas R. Kunst, Anette Rohmann, Inga Jasinskaja-Lahti

  The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, 30 · 2020 · Intergroup relations

• Blatant dehumanization in the mind’s eye: Prevalent even among those who explicitly reject it?

  Christopher D. Petsko, Ryan F. Lei, Jonas R. Kunst, Emile Bruneau, Nour Kteily

  Journal of Experimental Psychology: General · 2020 · Intergroup relations · Plain-language summary

• The Nature of Islamophobia: A Test of a Tripartite View in Five Countries

  Fatih Uenal, Robin Bergh, Jim Sidanius, Andreas Zick, Sasha Kimel, Jonas R. Kunst

  Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 47 · 2020 · Intergroup relations · Plain-language summary

• The last acceptable prejudice in Europe? Anti-Gypsyism as the obstacle to Roma inclusion

  Anna Kende, Márton Hadarics, Sára Bigazzi, Mihaela Boza, Jonas R. Kunst, Nóra Anna Lantos, Barbara Lášticová, Anca Minescu, Monica Pivetti, Ana Urbiola

  Group Processes & Intergroup Relations · 2020 · Intergroup relations · Plain-language summary

• Understanding violent extremism in the 21st century: the (re)emerging role of relative deprivation

  Jonas R. Kunst, Milan Obaidi

  Current Opinion in Psychology · 2020 · Violent extremism · Plain-language summary

• Dissociating meat from its animal origins: A systematic literature review

  Nora C.G. Benningstad, Jonas R. Kunst

  Appetite · 2020 · Meat & human–animal relations · Plain-language summary
• 2019

• Threat, Anti-Western Hostility and Violence among European Muslims: The Mediating Role of Acculturation

  Hajra Tahir, Jonas R. Kunst, David Lackland Sam

  International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 73 · 2019 · Violent extremism

• Fusion with political leaders predicts willingness to persecute immigrants and political opponents

  Jonas R. Kunst, John F. Dovidio, Lotte Thomsen

  Nature Human Behaviour · 2019 · Violent extremism · Plain-language summary

• Correlations between social dominance orientation and political attitudes reflect common genetic underpinnings

  Thomas Haarklau Kleppestø, Nikolai Olavi Czajkowski, Olav Vassend, Espen Røysamb, Nikolai Haahjem Eftedal, Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington, Jonas R. Kunst, Lotte Thomsen

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116 · 2019 · Intergroup relations · Plain-language summary

• Divided loyalties: Perceptions of disloyalty underpin bias toward dually-identified minority-group members.

  Jonas R. Kunst, Lotte Thomsen, John F. Dovidio

  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 117 · 2019 · Intergroup relations · Plain-language summary

• Climatic effects on the sociocultural and psychological adaptation of migrants within China: A longitudinal test of two competing perspectives

  Alexander S. English, Jonas R. Kunst, David L. Sam

  Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 22 · 2019 · Acculturation

• Can Abraham bring peace? The relationship between acknowledging shared religious roots and intergroup conflict.

  Jonas R. Kunst, Sasha Y. Kimel, Maor Shani, Ramzi Alayan, Lotte Thomsen

  Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, 11 · 2019 · Intergroup relations · Plain-language summary

• Sexism, rape myths and feminist identification explain gender differences in attitudes toward the #metoo social media campaign in two countries

  Jonas R. Kunst, April Bailey, Claire Prendergast, Aleksander Gundersen

  Media Psychology, 22 · 2019 · Intergroup relations

• Feminist ≠ Feminine? Feminist Women Are Visually Masculinized Whereas Feminist Men Are Feminized

  Aleksander B. Gundersen, Jonas R. Kunst

  Sex Roles, 80 · 2019 · Intergroup relations

• “You Little Creep”: Evidence of Blatant Dehumanization of Short Groups

  Jonas R. Kunst, Nour Kteily, Lotte Thomsen

  Social Psychological and Personality Science, 10 · 2019 · Intergroup relations · Plain-language summary
• 2018

• Skin-tone discrimination by Whites and Africans is associated with the acculturation of African immigrants in Norway

  Jonas R. Kunst, Esther N. Phillibert

  PLOS ONE · 2018 · Acculturation · Plain-language summary

• Simply Insane? Attributing Terrorism to Mental Illness (Versus Ideology) Affects Mental Representations of Race

  Jonas R. Kunst, Lisa S. Myhren, Ivuoma N. Onyeador

  Criminal Justice and Behavior, 45 · 2018 · Violent extremism

• Living under threat: Mutual threat perception drives anti‐Muslim and anti‐Western hostility in the age of terrorism

  Milan Obaidi, Jonas R. Kunst, Nour Kteily, Lotte Thomsen, James Sidanius

  European Journal of Social Psychology, 48 · 2018 · Violent extremism

• White Look-Alikes: Mainstream Culture Adoption Makes Immigrants “Look” Phenotypically White

  Jonas R. Kunst, John F. Dovidio, Ron Dotsch

  Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 44 · 2018 · Acculturation · Plain-language summary

• Engaging in extreme activism in support of others’ political struggles: The role of politically motivated fusion with out-groups

  Jonas R. Kunst, Beverly Boos, Sasha Y. Kimel, Milan Obaidi, Maor Shani, Lotte Thomsen

  PLOS ONE · 2018 · Violent extremism · Plain-language summary

• The effects of dissociation on willingness to eat meat are moderated by exposure to unprocessed meat: A cross-cultural demonstration

  Jonas R. Kunst, Christian Andrés Palacios Haugestad

  Appetite, 120 · 2018 · Meat & human–animal relations · Plain-language summary

• Too sweet to eat: Exploring the effects of cuteness on meat consumption

  Janis H. Zickfeld, Jonas R. Kunst, Sigrid M. Hohle

  Appetite, 120 · 2018 · Meat & human–animal relations · Plain-language summary
• 2017

• Preferences for group dominance track and mediate the effects of macro-level social inequality and violence across societies

  Jonas R. Kunst, Ronald Fischer, Jim Sidanius, Lotte Thomsen

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114 · 2017 · Intergroup relations · Plain-language summary

• A two-way process? A qualitative and quantitative investigation of majority members’ acculturation

  I. Haugen, Jonas R. Kunst

  International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 60 · 2017 · Acculturation

• Explaining prejudice toward the mentally ill: A test of sociopolitical, demographic, and socioeconomic factors

  Ole J. Johansson, Jonas R. Kunst

  Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 47 · 2017 · Intergroup relations
• 2016

• Living in a Genetic World

  Sasha Y. Kimel, Rowell Huesmann, Jonas R. Kunst, Eran Halperin

  Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 42 · 2016 · Intergroup relations · Plain-language summary

• Meat eaters by dissociation: How we present, prepare and talk about meat increases willingness to eat meat by reducing empathy and disgust

  Jonas R. Kunst, Sigrid M. Hohle

  Appetite, 105 · 2016 · Meat & human–animal relations · Plain-language summary

• The vicious circle of religious prejudice: Islamophobia makes the acculturation attitudes of majority and minority members clash

  Jonas R. Kunst, Talieh Sadeghi, Hajra Tahir, David Sam, Lotte Thomsen

  European Journal of Social Psychology, 46 · 2016 · Acculturation · Plain-language summary
• 2015

• “We Are in This Together”

  Jonas R. Kunst, Lotte Thomsen, David L. Sam, John W. Berry

  Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 41 · 2015 · Acculturation

• The effect of disgust-eliciting media portrayals on outgroup dehumanization and support of deportation in a Norwegian sample

  Madeleine Dalsklev, Jonas R. Kunst

  International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 47 · 2015 · Intergroup relations · Plain-language summary

• Prodigal Sons: Dual Abrahamic Categorization Mediates the Detrimental Effects of Religious Fundamentalism on Christian–Muslim Relations

  Jonas R. Kunst, Lotte Thomsen

  The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, 25 · 2015 · Intergroup relations
• 2014

• Late Abrahamic reunion? Religious fundamentalism negatively predicts dual Abrahamic group categorization among Muslims and Christians

  Jonas R. Kunst, Lotte Thomsen, David L. Sam

  European Journal of Social Psychology, 44 · 2014 · Intergroup relations

• The Relationship Between Shift Work Schedules and Spillover in a Sample of Nurses

  Jonas R. Kunst, Gøril Kvamme Løset, Daniel Hosøy, Bjørn Bjorvatn, Bente E. Moen, Nils Magerøy, Ståle Pallesen

  International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics, 20 · 2014

• “It's on Time That They Assimilate” – Differential acculturation expectations towards first and second generation immigrants

  Jonas R. Kunst, David L. Sam

  International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 39 · 2014 · Acculturation · Plain-language summary
• 2013

• Expanding the Margins of Identity: A Critique of Marginalization in a Globalized World

  Jonas R. Kunst, David L. Sam

  International Perspectives in Psychology, 2 · 2013 · Acculturation

• Relationship between perceived acculturation expectations and Muslim minority youth's acculturation and adaptation

  Jonas R. Kunst, David L. Sam

  International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 37 · 2013 · Acculturation

• Perceived islamophobia: Scale development and validation

  Jonas R. Kunst, David L. Sam, Pål Ulleberg

  International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 37 · 2013 · Intergroup relations
• 2012

• Coping with Islamophobia: The effects of religious stigma on Muslim minorities’ identity formation

  Jonas R. Kunst, Hajra Tajamal, David L. Sam, Pål Ulleberg

  International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 36 · 2012 · Acculturation

Books

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  The Cambridge Handbook of the Psychology of Violent Extremism

  Cambridge University Press · 2025 · Plain-language summary

Book chapters

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  From carnivore to conscientious: Shifting diets by strengthening consumers’ association of animal products with living beings

  Routledge

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  Methodological challenges in cross-cultural adaptation research: Insights from a large-scale meta-analysis

  Edward Elgar Publishing · 2025

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  Understanding Diversity in Norway: Ethnicity, Gender, Religion and Social Class

  Springer Nature · 2025

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  The Future of Violent Extremism Research – 5 Recommendations Based on a Machine Learning Analysis of 34,000+ Articles

  Cambridge University Press · 2025

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  Climate and Catalyst Events and Their Intersection with Violent Extremism

  Cambridge University Press · 2025

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  Navigating the Threat Landscape: Understanding the Role of Threat Perceptions in Violent Extremism

  Cambridge University Press · 2025

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  The Role of Relative Deprivation in the Process of Radicalization into Violent Extremism

  Cambridge University Press · 2025

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  Concluding Remarks

  Cambridge University Press · 2025

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  Introduction

  Cambridge University Press · 2025

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  Acculturation as a Lifetime Project

  Routledge · 2025

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  Common identity and humanity

  141-146), Sage Publishing · 2020