Kevin Winter

810 total citations · 1 hit paper
27 papers, 452 citations indexed

About

Kevin Winter is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Cognitive Neuroscience and Applied Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Kevin Winter has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 452 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 6 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 6 papers in Applied Psychology. Recurrent topics in Kevin Winter's work include Misinformation and Its Impacts (11 papers), Social and Intergroup Psychology (7 papers) and Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (6 papers). Kevin Winter is often cited by papers focused on Misinformation and Its Impacts (11 papers), Social and Intergroup Psychology (7 papers) and Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (6 papers). Kevin Winter collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Australia and Netherlands. Kevin Winter's co-authors include Kai Sassenberg, Lotte Pummerer, Lau Lilleholt, Robert Böhm, Ingo Zettler, Matthew J. Hornsey, Sven Kotlarski, Annika Scholl, Simon C. Scherrer and Christoph Schär and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Kevin Winter

24 papers receiving 439 citations

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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.

Conspiracy Theories and Their Societal Effects During the COVID-19 Pandemic

2021 194 citations Lotte Pummerer, Kevin Winter et al. Social Psychological and Personality Science profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kevin Winter Germany	11	300	123	115	62	61	27	452
Irena Pavela Banai Croatia	9	291 1.0×	131 1.1×	154 1.3×	38 0.6×	45 0.7×	22	441
Justin T. Kingsland United States	9	292 1.0×	39 0.3×	86 0.7×	78 1.3×	17 0.3×	17	393
Olivia M. Bullock United States	12	243 0.8×	29 0.2×	54 0.5×	92 1.5×	26 0.4×	18	439
Lotte Pummerer Germany	9	492 1.6×	211 1.7×	225 2.0×	100 1.6×	97 1.6×	21	615
Bruno Gabriel Salvador Casara Italy	9	240 0.8×	84 0.7×	70 0.6×	39 0.6×	37 0.6×	24	332
Anita Atwell Seate United States	14	393 1.3×	17 0.1×	37 0.3×	178 2.9×	41 0.7×	36	545
Fatih Uenal United Kingdom	8	278 0.9×	35 0.3×	44 0.4×	68 1.1×	50 0.8×	9	321
Trevor Tompson United States	8	494 1.6×	47 0.4×	33 0.3×	156 2.5×	63 1.0×	12	621
Mikey Biddlestone United Kingdom	12	482 1.6×	188 1.5×	103 0.9×	72 1.2×	79 1.3×	25	602
Rakoen Maertens United Kingdom	10	475 1.6×	53 0.4×	68 0.6×	165 2.7×	115 1.9×	16	543

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kevin Winter

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20 of 20 papers shown

Hornsey, Matthew J., et al.. (2025). Mapping, understanding and reducing belief in misinformation about electric vehicles. Nature Energy. 10(7). 869–879. 4 indexed citations

Winter, Kevin, Lotte Pummerer, Timo von Oertzen, Matthew J. Hornsey, & Kai Sassenberg. (2025). Conspiracy belief and opposition to wind farms: A longitudinal study. Journal of Environmental Psychology. 104. 102620–102620. 1 indexed citations

Winter, Kevin, Laura Henn, & Kai Sassenberg. (2025). Flexibility mindsets enhance pro-environmental behavioral intentions among those with a low pro-environmental default tendency. Journal of Environmental Psychology. 107. 102747–102747.

Pummerer, Lotte, Kevin Winter, Kai Sassenberg, & Helen Fischer. (2025). “Knowing what I don’t know” – belief in conspiracy theories relates to lower metacognitive sensitivity: a signal detection theoretic approach. Journal of Cognitive Psychology. 38(1). 65–77.

Pummerer, Lotte, et al.. (2025). Belief in a Norm‐Consistent Climate Policy Conspiracy Theory and Non‐Normative Collective Action. Journal of Applied Social Psychology. 55(5). 343–358. 2 indexed citations

Winter, Kevin, Matthew J. Hornsey, Lotte Pummerer, & Kai Sassenberg. (2024). Public agreement with misinformation about wind farms. Nature Communications. 15(1). 8888–8888. 14 indexed citations

Sassenberg, Kai & Kevin Winter. (2024). Intraindividual Conflicts Reduce the Polarization of Attitudes. Current Directions in Psychological Science. 33(3). 190–197. 5 indexed citations

Landmann, Helen, Kevin Winter, Laura Froehlich, et al.. (2024). Transfer between Science and Practice: Findings from the Network of Social Psychology on Forced Migration and Integration. 8(1). 187–200.

Pummerer, Lotte, et al.. (2024). Conspiracy beliefs and majority influence. The Journal of Social Psychology. 165(6). 825–840. 2 indexed citations

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Winter, Kevin, Lotte Pummerer, & Kai Sassenberg. (2023). Change by (almost) all means: The role of conspiracy mentality in predicting support for social change among the political left and right. European Journal of Social Psychology. 53(7). 1563–1575. 2 indexed citations

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Palmer, Carolyn G., Tena Alamirew, Yazidhi Bamutaze, et al.. (2023). The Adaptive Systemic Approach: Catalysing more just and sustainable outcomes from sustainability and natural resources development research. River Research and Applications. 40(9). 1732–1746. 3 indexed citations

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Winter, Kevin & Kai Epstude. (2022). Motivational consequences of counterfactual mindsets: Does counterfactual structure influence the use of conservative or risky tactics?. Motivation and Emotion. 47(1). 100–114. 5 indexed citations

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Pummerer, Lotte, Kevin Winter, & Kai Sassenberg. (2022). Addressing Covid-19 Vaccination Conspiracy Theories and Vaccination Intentions. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(2). 1–12. 14 indexed citations

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Winter, Kevin, Matthew J. Hornsey, Lotte Pummerer, & Kai Sassenberg. (2022). Anticipating and defusing the role of conspiracy beliefs in shaping opposition to wind farms. Nature Energy. 7(12). 1200–1207. 29 indexed citations

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Winter, Kevin, Annika Scholl, & Kai Sassenberg. (2022). Flexible minds make more moderate views: Subtractive counterfactuals mitigate strong views about immigrants’ trustworthiness. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations. 26(6). 1310–1328. 4 indexed citations

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Pummerer, Lotte, et al.. (2022). Think About It! Deliberation Reduces the Negative Relation Between Conspiracy Belief and Adherence to Prosocial Norms. Social Psychological and Personality Science. 14(8). 952–963. 11 indexed citations

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Winter, Kevin & Kai Sassenberg. (2021). Mitigating the Default? The Influence of Ingroup Diversity on Outgroup Trust. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 34(1). 19–19. 2 indexed citations

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Winter, Kevin, Lotte Pummerer, Matthew J. Hornsey, & Kai Sassenberg. (2021). Pro‐vaccination subjective norms moderate the relationship between conspiracy mentality and vaccination intentions. British Journal of Health Psychology. 27(2). 390–405. 52 indexed citations

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Winter, Kevin, et al.. (2021). Flexing the Extremes: Increasing Cognitive Flexibility With a Paradoxical Leading Questions Intervention. Social Cognition. 39(2). 225–242. 10 indexed citations

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Winter, Kevin, Annika Scholl, & Kai Sassenberg. (2020). A matter of flexibility: Changing outgroup attitudes through messages with negations.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 120(4). 956–976. 16 indexed citations

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