Stephen P. Nicholson

2.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
54 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Stephen P. Nicholson is a scholar working on Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science and Communication. According to data from OpenAlex, Stephen P. Nicholson has authored 54 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Political Science and International Relations, 21 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 12 papers in Communication. Recurrent topics in Stephen P. Nicholson's work include Electoral Systems and Political Participation (29 papers), Social and Intergroup Psychology (16 papers) and Social Media and Politics (12 papers). Stephen P. Nicholson is often cited by papers focused on Electoral Systems and Political Participation (29 papers), Social and Intergroup Psychology (16 papers) and Social Media and Politics (12 papers). Stephen P. Nicholson collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. Stephen P. Nicholson's co-authors include Gary M. Segura, Shaun Bowler, Thomas G. Hansford, Robert M. Howard, Kevin Arceneaux, Anna V. Song, Evan Heit, Nathan D. Woods, Adrian D. Pantoja and Haifeng Huang and has published in prestigious journals such as American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science and Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.

In The Last Decade

Stephen P. Nicholson

48 papers receiving 1.6k 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.

Polarizing Cues

2011 297 citations Stephen P. Nicholson American Journal of Political Science profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Stephen P. Nicholson United States	20	1.1k	905	516	215	212	54	1.7k
Franklin D. Gilliam United States	10	874 0.8×	1.1k 1.2×	415 0.8×	63 0.3×	88 0.4×	18	1.7k
Mirya R. Holman United States	27	1.1k 1.0×	900 1.0×	228 0.4×	65 0.3×	124 0.6×	79	2.2k
David L. Leal United States	19	732 0.7×	928 1.0×	254 0.5×	32 0.1×	81 0.4×	68	1.5k
John Barry Ryan United States	23	731 0.7×	1.2k 1.3×	607 1.2×	55 0.3×	64 0.3×	63	1.8k
Lauren M. McLaren United Kingdom	19	1.8k 1.6×	1.6k 1.8×	179 0.3×	52 0.2×	70 0.3×	37	2.8k
Jason Brennan United States	18	671 0.6×	428 0.5×	88 0.2×	72 0.3×	154 0.7×	79	1.2k
Melissa R. Michelson United States	21	766 0.7×	738 0.8×	472 0.9×	28 0.1×	44 0.2×	83	1.3k
Katherine Tate United States	15	958 0.9×	926 1.0×	214 0.4×	56 0.3×	62 0.3×	39	1.5k
Robert Klemmensen Denmark	18	633 0.6×	681 0.8×	171 0.3×	21 0.1×	97 0.5×	59	1.3k
Mark R. Joslyn United States	21	533 0.5×	951 1.1×	257 0.5×	29 0.1×	61 0.3×	53	1.5k

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Fulton, Sarah A., et al.. (2025). I’m Doing This for My Daughter: An Examination of the Daughter Effect in the 2016 and 2020 Presidential Elections. Journal of Women Politics & Policy. 46(2). 129–150.

Arceneaux, Kevin & Stephen P. Nicholson. (2023). Anchoring Political Preferences: The Psychological Foundations of Status Quo Bias and the Boundaries of Elite Manipulation. Political Behavior. 46(2). 751–775. 6 indexed citations

Richardson, Daniel, et al.. (2022). PrEP2U: delivering HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in partnership from a community setting. Sexually Transmitted Infections. 99(1). 70–70.

Nicholson, Stephen P., et al.. (2022). Inverting the Lens: White Privilege Denial in Evaluations of Politicians and Policy. Perspectives on Politics. 22(2). 540–558. 3 indexed citations

Huang, Haifeng, et al.. (2022). In Government We Trust: Implicit Political Trust and Regime Support in China. Perspectives on Politics. 21(4). 1357–1375. 18 indexed citations

Nicholson, Stephen P.. (2021). Voting the Agenda. Princeton University Press eBooks. 1 indexed citations

Hansford, Thomas G., et al.. (2017). The Paradoxical Effect of Speech-Suppressing Appeals to the First Amendment. The Journal of Politics. 80(1). 309–313.

Hansford, Thomas G., et al.. (2017). Snap Judgment: Implicit Perceptions of a (Political) Court. Political Behavior. 40(1). 127–147. 13 indexed citations

Nicholson, Stephen P., et al.. (2016). The Politics of Beauty: The Effects of Partisan Bias on Physical Attractiveness. Political Behavior. 38(4). 883–898. 90 indexed citations

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Heit, Evan & Stephen P. Nicholson. (2012). Knowledge and Political Categorization. Cognitive Science. 34(34). 1 indexed citations

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Nicholson, Stephen P.. (2011). Polarizing Cues. American Journal of Political Science. 56(1). 52–66. 297 indexed citations breakdown →

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Heit, Evan & Stephen P. Nicholson. (2010). The Opposite of Republican: Polarization and Political Categorization. Cognitive Science. 34(8). 1503–1516. 31 indexed citations

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Nicholson, Stephen P.. (2005). The Jeffords Switch and Public Support for Divided Government. British Journal of Political Science. 35(2). 343–356. 10 indexed citations

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Nicholson, Stephen P., Adrian D. Pantoja, & Gary M. Segura. (2005). Race Matters: Latino Racial Identities and Political Beliefs. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 11 indexed citations

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Bowler, Shaun, Stephen P. Nicholson, & Gary M. Segura. (2005). Earthquakes and Aftershocks: Race, Direct Democracy, and Partisan Change. American Journal of Political Science. 50(1). 146–159. 140 indexed citations

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Nicholson, Stephen P.. (2000). The Highways Agency Traffic Control Centre Project (Progress towards the selection of a preferred bidder). 2000. 70–74. 1 indexed citations

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Siann, Gerda, et al.. (1998). Talking about subject choice at secondary school and career aspirations: conversations with students of Chinese background. British Journal of Guidance and Counselling. 26(2). 195–207. 2 indexed citations

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Nicholson, Stephen P. & Ross A. Miller. (1997). Prior Beliefs and Voter Turnout in the 1986 and 1988 Congressional Elections. Political Research Quarterly. 50(1). 199–213. 12 indexed citations

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Lightbody, Pauline, Stephen P. Nicholson, Gerda Siann, & David Walsh. (1997). A respectable job: factors which influence young Asians' choice of career. British Journal of Guidance and Counselling. 25(1). 67–79. 1 indexed citations

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Nicholson, Stephen P.. (1971). How not to cheat children, the theory of loose parts. Landscape architecture. 62(1). 30–34. 125 indexed citations

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