CV Traunmueller Google Scholar Profile SSRN Author Page Under Review Diehl, C. et al. Students’ motives for restricting academic freedom: Viewpoint discrimination trumps professional standards and pro-social concerns. (R&R) Lu, X. & Traunmüller, R. Improving Studies of Sensitive Topics Using Prior Evidence: A Unified Bayesian Framework for List Experiments. (R&R) Arnold, L. & Traunmüller, R. Religious Bridging and Bonding in Social Networks. New Evidence from a Cross-national Comparison of Eleven Democracies. (R&R) Traunmüller, R. Testing the ‘Campus Cancel Culture’ Hypothesis. Selected Recent Publications Helbling, M., Ivarsflaten, E. & Traunmüller, R. (2025). Zero-sum thinking and the cultural threat of Muslim religious rights. Comparative Political Studies (conditional accept). Munzert, S., Traunmüller, R., Barberà, P., Guess, A., & J.-H. Yang (2025). Citizen Preferences for Online Hate Speech Regulation. PNAS Nexus 4(2): pgaf032. Koos, C. & Traunmüller, R. (2024). The Gendered Costs of Stigma: How Experiences of Conflict-related Sexual Violence Affect Civic Engagement for Women and Men. American Journal of Political Science doi.org/10.1111/ajps.12863. Ivarsflaten, E., Helbling, M., Sniderman, P. M. & Traunmüller, R. (2024). Value Conflicts Revisited: Muslims, Gender Equality and Gestures of Respect. British Journal of Political Science doi:10.1017/S0007123423000637. Helbling, M., Maxwell, R. & Traunmüller, R. (2024). Numbers, Selectivity and Rights: The Conditional Nature of Immigration Policy Preferences. Comparative Political Studies 57(2): 254-286. Gonzalez, B. & Traunmüller, R. (2023). The Political Consequences of Wartime Sexual Violence: Evidence from a List Experiment. Journal of Peace Research https://doi.org/10.1177/00223433231183. Stoetzer, L., Leemann, L. & Traunmüller, R. Learning From Polls during Electoral Campaigns. Political Behavior doi.org/10.1007/s11109-022-09837-8 Stoetzer, L. et al. (2022). Affective partisan polarization and moral dilemmas during the COVID-19 pandemic. Political Science Research & Methods doi:10.1017/psrm.2022.13. Murr, A., Traunmüller, R. & Gill, J. (2022). Computing quantities of interest and their uncertainty using Bayesian simulation. Political Science Research & Methods doi.org/10.1017/psrm.2022.18. Helbling, M., Jäger, F. & Traunmüller, R. (2022). Muslim Bias or Fear of Fundamentalist Religion? A Survey Experiment in Five Western European Democracies. Research & Politics doi.org/10.1177/20531680221088491. Traunmüller, R. & Helbling, M. (2022). Backlash to Policy Decisions: How Citizens React to Immigrants’ Rights to Demonstrate. Political Science Research & Methods 10(2): 279 – 297. Leemann, L., Stoetzer, L. & Traunmüller, R. (2021). Eliciting Beliefs as Distributions in Online Surveys. Political Analysis 29(4): 541-553. Helbling, M. & Traunmüller, R. (2020). What is Islamophobia? Disentangling Citizens’ Feelings Toward Ethnicity, Religion, and Religiosity Using a Survey Experiment. British Journal of Political Science 50(3): 811-828. (Lead Article) Best Paper Award 2017 of the CES Immigration Research Network. Claassen, C. & Traunmüller, R. (2020). Improving and Validating Survey Estimates of Religious Demography Using Bayesian Multilevel Models with Poststratification. Sociological Methods & Research 49(3): 603–636. Traunmüller, R., Kijewski, S. & Freitag, M. (2019). The Silent Victims of Sexual Violence During War: Evidence from a List Experiment in Sri Lanka. Journal of Conflict Resolution 63(9): 2015-2042. Helbling, M. & Traunmüller, R. (2016). How State Support of Religion Shapes Attitudes Toward Muslim Immigrants. New Evidence from a Subnational Comparison. Comparative Political Studies 49(1): 391-424. [Online Appendix; Erratum Figure 3]. Best Article Award 2017 (‘Honorable Mention’) of the APSA section on Migration and Citizenship. Traunmüller, R., Murr, A. & Gill, J. (2015). Modeling Latent Information in Voting Data with Dirichlet Process Priors. Political Analysis 23(1): 1-20. (Lead Article)