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Description: Populistic attitudes of voters are often one of the key factors deciding the outcome of elections and, therefore, which political representatives govern the country. The rise of populism in the last decades has fostered research on populist parties and attitudes (Fernández-Vázquez, 2022). However, most studies focus only on certain groups of predictors, such as psychological (Erisen et al., 2021; Pruysers, 2021) or socio-economic (Rico & Anduiza, 2019, Tsatsanis et al., 2018; Abadi et al., 2020). There are also a few studies emphasizing the role of affective factors (Rico et al., 2017; Abadi et al., 2020), social factors (Oliver & Rahn, 2016), and cognitive factors (Bruder et al., 2013). Based on the literature review and previous pilot studies, we propose a testable complex prediction model of populist attitudes.