Frank Mols

Frank Mols is a political psychologist at the School of Political Science and International Studies at The University of Queensland, Australia, where specialization centers on political leadership, decision-making, behavior change, party politics, campaign messaging, evidence-based policy, elections, and voter attitudes. Mols earned a PhD from the School of Political Sciences at the University of Exeter and has published extensively in leading international journals including the European Journal of Political Research, Political Psychology, West European Politics, Journal of Common Market Studies, Public Administration, and the Australian Journal of Public Administration. Mols' research draws heavily on social identity theory to examine topics such as populist appeals, anti-immigrant sentiment, economic inequality, EU attitudes, conspiracy beliefs, and the psychological mechanisms underlying political persuasion and governance. Recent work by Mols has explored how identity narratives shape EU support, how economic conditions interact with social identity to influence political attitudes, and how framing strategies affect persuasion in political contexts.