Political Thinking:

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Introduction

• Political Thinking: How Social and Cognitive Factors Shape Stances Across the Life Course
  Bolivar Reyes-Jaquez and Tamar Kushnir

Articles

• Becoming Partisan: The Development of Children’s Social Preferences Based on Political Markers*
  Annie Schwartzstein and Hyesung G. Hwang
• What Predicts Girls’ and Boys’ Political Ambition? Evidence From the United States and China 
  Rachel A. Leshin, Reut Shachnai, Yuchen Tian, Minghui Wang, and Andrei Cimpian
• Reasoning About the Merits of Meritocracy 
  Shuai Shao and Gail D. Heyman
• Social and Cognitive Factors Shaping Conspiracy Theorizing Across the Life Course
  Matthew J. Hornsey, Kana Imuta, and Kinga Bierwiaczonek
• Political Participation and the Civic Voluntarism Model: How Do Resources, Psychological Engagement, and Recruitment Shape Willingness to Participate During Adolescence?
  Pascal Alscher, Elisabeth Graf, and Nele McElvany
• Who Should Have a Voice? Children’s Evaluations of Universalist Versus Exclusive Voting
  Hannah Hok, Gabriella Silva, Alex Shaw, and Fan Yang
• Hiding Discrimination in Plain Sight: The Development of Reasoning About Disparate Impact Policies
  Aarthi K. Popat, Jamie Amemiya, Gail D. Heyman, and Caren M. Walker
• Facts Over Partisanship: Evidence-Based Updating of Trust in Partisan Sources
  Giannis Lois, Elias Tsakas, and Arno Riedl
• Association of Violence Exposure and Openness to Violent Activism: Understanding the Role of Psychological and Social Factors
  B. Heidi Ellis, Samantha R. Awada, Enryka Christopher, Diana Miconi, and Cecile Rousseau
• Context Matters: Intergroup Contact and Positive Reciprocity Among Arab and Jewish Children
  Lena Kabha and Avi Benozio
• Children and Adults Think Truth-Seeking Should Prevail Over Partisanship
  Joshua Rottman, Zoe Favilla, Nithyasri Ramaswamy, Caitlin Geller, Raluca Rilla, Nina Kegelman, Skylynn Coble, Jonathan D. Lane, S. Emlen Metz, Paul L. Harris, and Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
• The Age of Misinformation: Older People Exhibit Greater Partisan Bias in Sharing and Evaluating (Mis)Information Accuracy 
  Guilherme A. Ramos and Leaf Van Boven
• Antecedents and Consequences of Preferences for Hierarchy in Early Childhood
  Ryan F. Lei, Brandon Kinsler, Sa-kiera Tiarra Jolynn Hudson, Ian Davis, and Alissa Vandenbark
• Zero-Sum Beliefs Across Age and Generations
  Veronica Vazquez-Olivieri, Tamar Kricheli-Katz, and Boaz Keysar
• The Emergence of Political Orientation: Authoritarian and Social Dominance Attitudes in Early Childhood
  Michal Reifen-Tagar, Ghadir Zreik, Andrei Cimpian, and Sharon Shenhav

* Each issue of JEP: General will honor one paper per issue as an “Editor’s Choice” article. The choice is based on the article’s potential impact on psychology research and/or practice.