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• Lee Kun, Bernhard Ebbinghaus (2026): Converging or unequal retirement patterns? Late working lives, retirement trajectories, and pension income in Germany over three decades of cohorts, Social Forces, 105, 1, pp. 54–76.

• Brüggemann Michael, Christel W. van Eck, Shota Gelovani, Hendrik Meyer, Ashley Muddiman, Louisa Pröschel, Hartmut Wessler (2026): What kind of depolarization should we aim for? Making communication transformative, Political Communication, 43, 3, pp. 564-571.

• Symeonidou Nikoletta, Christine Emmer, Liliane Wulff, Beatrice G. Kuhlmann (2026): Context reinstatement effects in younger and older adults’ memory: A meta-analysis, Psychology and Aging, 41, 4, pp. 525-543.

• Hagemann Daniel C., Stefan Marschall (2026): Low Education – Low Impact? The Effects of Voting Advice Applications on an Underexposed Segment of Users, Politics and Governance, 14, Article 11087, pp. 1-20.

• Quinlan Stephen, Christian Schnaudt, Michael S. Lewis-Beck (2026): A Political History Forecast of Bloc Support in the 2025 German Federal Election, PS: Political Science & Politics, 59, 1, pp. 61 - 67.

• Palomo-Lario Carlos, Irena Kogan, Stefanie Heyne, Jana Kuhlemann (2026): It takes two to court: Partnership formation in the context of forced migration, Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, 102, April 2026,

• Heyne Stefanie, Irena Kogan (2026): Is it a match? The congruence of partnership preferences between Syrian and Afghan refugees and the German population, Journal of Family Studies, March, pp. 1-25.

• Kogan Irena, Jana Kuhlemann, Laura Schmitt (2026): Attractiveness for Status? The Link Between Physical Attractiveness and Male Refugees’ Romantic Relationships in Germany, Journal of Marriage and Family, 88, 5, pp. 1362-1378.

• Kogan Irena, Marlene Bauer (2026): Contexts of partnership formation in Germany: Male refugees from Syria and Afghanistan and children of immigrants compared, Journal of Family Research, 38, pp. 199-212.

• Bauer Marlene, Irena Kogan (2026): Partnerships in Transition, Marriages in Tradition: Partnership Forms and Endogamy Among Male Syrian and Afghan Refugees and the German Resident Population, KZfSS Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, 78, pp. 371-393.

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• Klamm Christopher, Simone Paolo Ponzetto, Ines Rehbein, Sarah Wagner (2026): Issue Ownership in Times of Crisis: Dynamics of Party Issue Ownership during the COVID-19 Pandemic, Party Politics, tba, tba, pp. 1-15.

• Jäger Felix (2026): Civil liberties under pressure? The determinants of citizens’ attitudes towards civil liberties policies, Mannheim, Universität Mannheim

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• Wohlmann Anna, Julian Bernauer (2026): AI Infrastructure for the Social Sciences - MZES Case Study, [ COMPTEXT Conference 2026, Birmingham, UK, ]

• Cenni Camilla (2026): The Who and Whom of Social Learning: How Personality Influences Human Social Learning Strategies, [ Cultural Evolution Society Conference, Rabat, Morocco, ]

• Cenni Camilla (2026): The Role of Personality in Human Social Learning Strategies, [ Culture Conference, Utrecht, NL, ]

• Kommol Alexandra, Alexandra Kommol (2026): Age Homophily and Contact between Native and Ukrainian Refugee Women: Experimental Evidence from Germany, [ 43. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie, Mainz, ]

• Kogan Irena, Jana Kuhlemann (2026): Interlinked Transitions: Partnership Formation and Labour Market Entry among Young Male Refugees in Germany, [ IAB Special Lectures, Nürnberg, ]

• Kogan Irena, Stefanie Heyne, Jana Kuhlemann (2026): Soziale Nähe, kulturelle Distanz und die Akzeptanz Migrant:innen und Geflüchteter in Deutschland, [ Landesforschungspreis Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart, ]

• Kogan Irena (2026): Partnerships in Transition, Marriages in Tradition? Reported partnership histories of recent male refugees from Syria and Afghanistan, and German resident population, [ ERCOMER seminar, Utrecht, ]

• Kogan Irena, Tamara Gutfleisch, Stefanie Heyne (2026): The role of mental and physical health in partnership formation of young male refugees in Germany, [ RC28 Spring Meeting, Sevilla, Spain, ]

• Kogan Irena, Jana Kuhlemann (2026): Partnership quality and stability among young refugees in Germany, [ European Population Conference, Bologna, ]

• Julia Broden, Simson Jan, Christoph Kern (2026): Conformal Predictions and the Many-Worlds of Fairness, [ ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT), Montreal, QC, Canada, ]