Working papers
- Christopher D. Johnston, Martín Opertti, and Turgut Keskintürk. “Values and Political Preferences in Childhood.”
Books
- Bartels, Brandon L., and Christopher D. Johnston. 2020. Curbing the Court: Why the Public Constrains Judicial Independence. Cambridge University Press.
- Johnston, Christopher D., Howard G. Lavine, and Christopher M. Federico. 2017. Open versus Closed: Personality, Identity, and the Politics of Redistribution. Cambridge University Press.
- Lavine, Howard G., Christopher D. Johnston, and Marco R. Steenbergen. 2012. The Ambivalent Partisan: How Critical Loyalty Promotes Democracy. New York: Oxford University Press.
Published articles
- Ciuk, David, Christopher D. Johnston, and Jesse Lopez. 2025. “Competing Moral Minds? Estimating Moral Disagreement in American Politics.” Political Psychology.
- Opertti, Martín, and Christopher D. Johnston. 2025. “Linking personality and policy: The moderating roles of cues and frames.” Political Psychology.
- Trexler, Andrew, and Christopher D. Johnston. 2025. “An Ideology by Any Other Name.” Political Behavior 47: 385-409.
- Jenke, Libby, Christopher D. Johnston, and Gabriel J. Madson. 2025. “An Assessment of Citizens’ Capacity for Prospective Issue Voting using Incentivized Forecasting.” Quarterly Journal of Political Science 20(1): 1-31.
- Hjermitslev, Ida, and Christopher D. Johnston. 2023. “Mixed Evidence for a Relationship of Cognitive Fatigue to Political Engagement.” Electoral Studies 83: 102621.
- Hassell, Hans J.G., Christopher D. Johnston, Jessica Khan, and Edgar Cook. 2022. “The Nature and Impact of Emotional Content in Congressional Candidate Emails to Supporters.” Electoral Studies 79: 102501.
- Ollerenshaw, Trent, and Christopher D. Johnston. 2022. “The Conditional Relationship of Psychological Needs to Ideology: A Large-Scale Replication.” Public Opinion Quarterly 86 (2): 369-380.
- Johnston, Christopher D., and Gabriel J. Madson. 2022. “Negativity Bias, Personality, and Political Ideology.” Nature Human Behavior 6 (5): 666-676.
- Guay, Brian, and Christopher D. Johnston. 2022. “Ideological Asymmetries and the Determinants of Politically Motivated Reasoning.” American Journal of Political Science 66 (2): 285-301.
- Johnston, Christopher D., and Trent Ollerenshaw. 2020. “How Different Are Cultural and Economic Ideology?” Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences 34: 94-101.
- Johnston, Christopher D. 2018. “Authoritarianism, Affective Polarization, and Economic Ideology.” Advances in Political Psychology 39 (S1): 219-238.
- Johnston, Christopher D., Maxwell Mak, and Andrew H. Sidman. 2016. “On the Measurement of Judicial Ideology.” Justice System Journal 37 (2): 169-188.
- Johnston, Christopher D., and Andrew O. Ballard. 2016. “Economists and Public Opinion: Expert Consensus and Economic Policy Judgments.” Journal of Politics 78 (2): 443-456.
- Johnston, Christopher D., and Benjamin J. Newman. 2016. “Economic Inequality and U.S. Public Policy Mood across Space and Time.” American Politics Research 44 (1): 164-191.
- Johnston, Christopher D., Benjamin J. Newman, and Yamil Velez. 2015. “Ethnic Change, Personality, and Polarization over Immigration in the American Public.” Public Opinion Quarterly 79 (3): 662-686.
- Johnston, Christopher D., Howard Lavine, and Benjamin Woodson. 2015. “Emotion and Political Judgment: Expectancy Violation and Affective Intelligence.” Political Research Quarterly 68 (3): 474-492.
- Bartels, Brandon L., Christopher D. Johnston, and Alyx Mark. 2015. “Lawyers’ Perceptions of The U.S. Supreme Court: Is the Court a ‘Political’ Institution?” Law and Society Review 49 (3): 761-794.
- Newman, Benjamin J., Christopher D. Johnston, and Patrick Lown. 2015. “False Consciousness or Class Awareness? Local Income Inequality, Personal Economic Position, and Belief in American Meritocracy.” American Journal of Political Science 59 (2): 326-340.
- Johnston, Christopher D., and Julie Wronski. 2015. “Personality Dispositions and Political Preferences across Hard and Easy Issues.” Political Psychology 36 (1): 35-53.
- Johnston, Christopher D., D. Sunshine Hillygus, and Brandon L. Bartels. 2014. “Ideology, the Affordable Care Act Ruling, and Supreme Court Legitimacy.” Public Opinion Quarterly 78 (4): 963-973.
- Feldman, Stanley, and Christopher D. Johnston. 2014. “Understanding the Determinants of Political Ideology: Implications of Structural Complexity.” Political Psychology 35 (3): 337-358.
- Johnston, Christopher D. 2013. “Dispositional Sources of Economic Protectionism.” Public Opinion Quarterly 77 (2): 574-585.
- Bartels, Brandon L., and Christopher D. Johnston. 2013. “On the Ideological Foundations of Supreme Court Legitimacy in the Mass Public.” American Journal of Political Science 57 (1): 184-199.
- Newman, Benjamin J., Christopher D. Johnston, April Strickland, and Jack Citrin. 2012. “Immigration Crackdown in the American Workplace: Explaining Variation in E-Verify Policy Adoption across the U.S. States.” State Politics and Policy Quarterly 12 (2): 160-182.
- Bartels, Brandon L., and Christopher D. Johnston. 2012. “Political Justice? Perceptions of Politicization and Public Preferences toward the Supreme Court Appointment Process.” Public Opinion Quarterly 76 (1): 105-116.
- Johnston, Christopher D., and Brandon L. Bartels. 2010. “Sensationalism and Sobriety: Differential Media Exposure and Attitudes Toward American Courts.” Public Opinion Quarterly 74: 260-285.