Publications
Moral Appeals in Political Communication across Time, Space, Ideology, and Topics
Kristina B. Simonsen, Tobias Widmann. Perspectives on Politics (forthcoming, 2026).
Do Politicians Appeal to Discrete Emotions? The Effect of Wind Turbine Construction on Elite Discourse
Tobias Widmann. The Journal of Politics (2025).
When Do Political Parties Moralize? A Cross-National Study of Moral Language in Political Communication
Kristina B. Simonsen, Tobias Widmann. British Journal of Political Science (2024).
Setting the Tone: The Diffusion of Moral and Moral-Emotional Appeals across Political and Public Discourse
Tobias Widmann, Kristina B. Simonsen. Political Science Research & Methods (2024).
The Evolution of Global Territoriality: A Historical Analysis of Territorial and Functional World Alignments
Daniele Caramani, Siyana Gurova, Tobias Widmann. Comparative Political Studies (2024).
The effect of temperature on language complexity: Evidence from seven million parliamentary speeches
Risto Conte Keivabu, Tobias Widmann. iScience (2024).
Creating and Comparing Dictionary, Word Embedding, and Transformer-based Models to Measure Discrete Emotions in German Political Text
Tobias Widmann, Maximilian Wich. Political Analysis (2022).
Fear, Hope, and COVID-19. Emotional Elite Rhetoric and Its Impact on the Public During the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Tobias Widmann. Political Psychology (2022).
Does Radical-Right Success Make the Political Debate More Negative? Evidence from Emotional Rhetoric in German State Parliaments
Vicente Valentim, Tobias Widmann. Political Behavior (2021).
How Emotional Are Populists Really? Factors Explaining Emotional Appeals in the Communication of Political Parties
Tobias Widmann. Political Psychology (2021).