Christian von Scheve

3.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
66 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Christian von Scheve is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Social Psychology and Political Science and International Relations. According to data from OpenAlex, Christian von Scheve has authored 66 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 41 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 26 papers in Social Psychology and 10 papers in Political Science and International Relations. Recurrent topics in Christian von Scheve's work include Emotions and Moral Behavior (15 papers), Social and Intergroup Psychology (12 papers) and Cultural Differences and Values (9 papers). Christian von Scheve is often cited by papers focused on Emotions and Moral Behavior (15 papers), Social and Intergroup Psychology (12 papers) and Cultural Differences and Values (9 papers). Christian von Scheve collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Spain and United States. Christian von Scheve's co-authors include Mikko Salmela, Sven Ismer, Jürgen Schupp, Jan Slaby, Elly A. Konijn, Katrin Döveling, Lena Walther, E. Glenn Schellenberg, Tobias Schröder and Winfried Menninghaus and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Neuropsychologia.

In The Last Decade

Christian von Scheve

63 papers receiving 1.5k citations

Hit Papers

Emotional roots of right-wing political populism 2017 2026 2020 2023 2017 50 100 150 200
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Emotional roots of right-wing political populism
    2017 225 citations Mikko Salmela, Christian von Scheve Social Science Information profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Christian von Scheve Germany 18 757 451 287 244 197 66 1.6k
Matthew V. Hibbing United States 16 1.1k 1.5× 455 1.0× 401 1.4× 282 1.2× 222 1.1× 30 1.5k
Lucian Gideon Conway United States 25 1.1k 1.5× 783 1.7× 169 0.6× 248 1.0× 141 0.7× 75 1.7k
Boris Bizumić Australia 19 910 1.2× 689 1.5× 157 0.5× 176 0.7× 449 2.3× 53 1.6k
Stephen Reysen United States 20 1.1k 1.4× 685 1.5× 92 0.3× 172 0.7× 161 0.8× 105 1.9k
Bernhard Leidner United States 18 890 1.2× 628 1.4× 103 0.4× 267 1.1× 141 0.7× 61 1.3k
Jared B. Kenworthy United States 22 1.5k 2.0× 1.0k 2.3× 92 0.3× 232 1.0× 201 1.0× 53 2.0k
David F. Lopez United States 13 754 1.0× 665 1.5× 97 0.3× 252 1.0× 209 1.1× 20 1.6k
Gregory Mitchell United States 16 934 1.2× 510 1.1× 166 0.6× 284 1.2× 120 0.6× 77 1.7k
John R. Chambers United States 18 1.5k 2.0× 875 1.9× 307 1.1× 431 1.8× 107 0.5× 42 2.2k
Małgorzata Kossowska Poland 24 1.2k 1.6× 732 1.6× 163 0.6× 430 1.8× 248 1.3× 102 1.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Christian von Scheve

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Fields of papers citing papers by Christian von Scheve

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Christian von Scheve

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Jacobsen, Jannes, Thorsten Faas, Denis Gerstorf, et al.. (2025). Social media sampling is an effective way to access hard to survey populations and low prevalence groups. International Journal of Social Research Methodology. 1–20.
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Scheve, Christian von, et al.. (2023). Risk entanglement and the social relationality of risk. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. 10(1). 170–170. 2 indexed citations
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Scheve, Christian von, et al.. (2022). Angry populists or concerned citizens? How linguistic emotion ascriptions shape affective, cognitive, and behavioural responses to political outgroups. Cognition & Emotion. 37(1). 147–161. 1 indexed citations
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Scheve, Christian von, et al.. (2022). Risk Entanglement in the Finance-State Nexus: The Case of Systemic and Political Risk. Frontiers in Sociology. 7. 877217–877217. 1 indexed citations
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Scheve, Christian von. (2021). Comment: Emotions as Relational Orientations: Accounting for Culture and Social Structure. Emotion Review. 13(2). 94–96.
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Walther, Lena, Hannes Kröger, Ana N. Tibubos, et al.. (2019). Psychological distress among refugees in Germany - A representative study on individual and contextual risk factors and the potential consequences of poor mental health for integration in the host country. Econstor (Econstor). 3 indexed citations
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Slaby, Jan & Christian von Scheve. (2019). Affective Societies. 77 indexed citations
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Conrad, Markus, et al.. (2019). Making sense of social interaction: Emotional coherence drives semantic integration as assessed by event-related potentials. Neuropsychologia. 125. 1–13. 7 indexed citations
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Heß, Moritz, Christian von Scheve, Jürgen Schupp, Aiko Wagner, & Gert G. Wagner. (2018). Are political representatives more risk-loving than the electorate? Evidence from German federal and state parliaments. Palgrave Communications. 4(1). 4 indexed citations
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Salmela, Mikko & Christian von Scheve. (2017). Emotional roots of right-wing political populism. Social Science Information. 56(4). 567–595. 225 indexed citations breakdown →
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Conrad, Markus & Christian von Scheve. (2016). The Good, the Bad, and the Male: Men, But Not Women, Avoid Own-Gender Stereotypical Judgments of Affective Valence. Gender Issues. 34(3). 223–239. 3 indexed citations
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Schröder, Tobias, et al.. (2014). Emotional connotations of words related to authority and community. Behavior Research Methods. 47(3). 720–735. 8 indexed citations
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Scheve, Christian von, et al.. (2014). National identification: a multidimensional scale based on a three‐country study. 29. 32. 4 indexed citations
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Scheve, Christian von, et al.. (2014). Collective Emotions. Oxford University Press eBooks. 101 indexed citations
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Heß, Moritz, Christian von Scheve, Jürgen Schupp, & Gert G. Wagner. (2013). Members of German Federal Parliament More Risk-Loving Than General Population. MADOC (University of Mannheim). 6 indexed citations
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Heß, Moritz, Christian von Scheve, Jürgen Schupp, & Gert G. Wagner. (2013). Volksvertreter sind risikofreudiger als das Volk. Econstor (Econstor). 80(10). 17–21. 1 indexed citations
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Scheve, Christian von, et al.. (2013). The Emotional Timeline of Unemployment: Anticipation, Reaction, and Adaptation. Journal of Happiness Studies. 18(4). 1231–1254. 2 indexed citations
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Ramsenthaler, Christina, Claudia Bausewein, Christian von Scheve, et al.. (2012). Typische Krisen und Bedürfnisse von Patienten mit COPD oder Lungenkrebs im letzten Lebensjahr - eine Literaturübersicht. Zeitschrift für Palliativmedizin. 13(3). 134–141. 2 indexed citations
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Scheve, Christian von. (2009). Emotionen und soziale Strukturen : die affektiven Grundlagen sozialer Ordnung. Campus Verlag eBooks. 16 indexed citations

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