Attitudes, immigration, political communication, quantitative methods, text-as-data

Research

My studies are freely available either as open access or preprints (see links below). Adhering to the idea of transparent and replicable research, I always upload the code of my published studies to the Open Science Framework. Feel free to use any material for secondary analyses, teaching, or other purposes. Please cite the source 😊 If you can’t access something, please let me know.

Doctoral dissertation

Peer-reviewed journal articles

  1. May, A. C. & Czymara, C. S. (2023). Careless Whisper: Political Elite Discourses Activate National Identities for Far-right Voting Preferences. Nations and Nationalism. 🔓 PDF
  2. Czymara, C. S. & Bauer, L. (2023): Discursive Shifts in the German Right-Wing Newspaper Junge Freiheit 1997-2019: A Computational Approach. German Politics. 🔓 PDF
  3. Nägel, C., Nivette A. & Czymara, C. S. (2023): Do Jihadist Terrorist Attacks Cause Changes in Institutional Trust? A Multi-Site Natural Experiment. European Journal of Political Research. 🔓 PDF
  4. Czymara, C. S. (2023): Real-World Developments Predict Immigration News in Right-Wing Media: Evidence from Germany. Mass Communication and Society. 🔓 PDF
  5. Schmidt-Catran, A. W. & Czymara, C. S. (2023): Political Elite Discourses Polarize Attitudes toward Immigration Along Ideological Lines. A comparative longitudinal analysis of Europe in the 21st century. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 49 (1): 85 - 109. 🔓 PDF
  6. Breznau, N. & 100+ co-authors (2022): Observing Many Researchers Using the Same Data and Hypothesis Reveals a Hidden Universe of Uncertainty. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119 (44): 1 - 8.
  7. Czymara, C. S., Dochow-Sondershaus, S, Drouhot, L. G., Şimşek, M. & Spörlein, C. (2023): Catalyst of hate? Ethnic insulting on YouTube in the aftermath of terror attacks in France, Germany and the United Kingdom 2014–2017. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 49 (2): 535 - 553. Special issue: Computational Approaches to Migration and Integration Research. 🔓 PDF
  8. Hoogeveen, S. & 100+ co-authors (2022): A many-analysts approach to the relation between religiosity and well-being. Religion, Brain and Behavior.
  9. Czymara, C. S. & Mitchell, J. (2023). All Cops are Trusted? How Context and Time Shape Immigrants’ Trust in the Police in Europe. Ethnic and Racial Studies 46 (1): 72 - 96. 🔓 PDF
  10. Langenkamp, A., Cano, T. & Czymara, C. S. (2022). My Home is my Castle? The Role of Living Arrangements on Experiencing the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence From Germany. Frontiers in Sociology 6: 1 - 14. 🔓 PDF
  11. Czymara, C. S. & van Klingeren, M. (2022): New perspective? Comparing Frame Occurrence in Online and Traditional News Media Reporting on Europe’s “Migration Crisis”. Communications: The European Journal of Communication Research 47 (1): 136 - 162. 🔓 PDF
  12. Czymara, C. S. & Eisentraut, M. (2020): ‘A threat to the Occident’? Comparing human values of Muslim immigrants, Christian and non-religious natives in Western Europe. Frontiers in Sociology 5: 1-15. 🔓 PDF
  13. Czymara, C. S., Langenkamp, A. & Cano, T. (2021): Cause for Concern: Gender Inequality in Experiencing the COVID-19 Lockdown in Germany. European Societies 23 (S1): 68 - 81. 🔓 PDF
  14. Schmidt-Catran, A. W. & Czymara, C. S. (2020): “Did you read about Berlin?” Terrorist attacks, online media reporting and support for refugees in Germany. Soziale Welt 71 (2–3): 305 – 337. 🔓 PDF
  15. Czymara, C. S. (2021): Attitudes toward Refugees in Contemporary Europe: A Longitudinal Perspective on Cross-national Differences. Social Forces 99 (3): 1306 – 1333. 🔓 PDF
  16. Czymara, C. S. (2020): Propagated Preferences? Political Elite Discourses and Europeans’ Openness toward Muslim Immigrants. International Migration Review 54 (4): 1212-1237. 🔓 PDF
  17. Czymara, C. S. & Dochow, S. (2018): Mass Media and Concerns about Immigration in Germany in the 21st Century: Individual-Level Evidence over 15 Years. European Sociological Review 34 (4): 381 – 401. 🔓 PDF
  18. Czymara, C. S. & Schmidt-Catran, A. W. (2017) : Refugees Unwelcome? Changes in the Public Acceptance of Immigrants and Refugees in Germany in the Course of Europe’s “Immigration Crisis”. European Sociological Review 33 (6): 735 – 751. 🔓 PDF
  19. Czymara, C. S. & Schmidt-Catran, A. W. (2016): Wer ist in Deutschland willkommen? Eine Vignettenanalyse zur Akzeptanz von Einwanderern (Who is welcome in Germany? A Vignette Study on the Acceptance of Immigrants). Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie 68 (2): 1 – 35. 🔓 PDF

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