Hot Politics Lab: Recent Episodes
Hot Politics Lab
The Hot Politics Lab is an interdisciplinary research group combining experiments, physiological measurement and automated text analysis to analyze the role of emotions, personality and language in politics. We analyze topics such as populism, persuasion and party strategies.
We currently host one virtual meeting each Friday where we speak to one or more experts from political psychology to discuss all things related to our Lab topics, and make them available via this podcast.
In this session of the Hot Politics Lab, Barbara Vis (University of Utrecht) gave talk titled "How Do Politicians Repsond to Different Types of Uncertain Phenomena? Introducing a Conceptual Map"
Each week the Hot Politics Lab invites a speaker to give a brief talk on a timely topic, followed by a Q&A. Our meetings are open to the public, and you can join each Friday at 3pm (CET) via Zoom by following this link https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/82942755100
In this graduate Friday session of the Hot Politics Lab, PhD candidate Emma Turkenburg (University Leuven) will give a talk titled "Affective responses to uncivil politicians". Afterwards PhD candidate
Daniel Thiele (University of Vienna) will give a talk titled ""Populist user comments, the pandemic and online publics. Insights from a computational text analysis in seven European countries".
In this session of the Hot Politics Lab, Gijs Schumacher (University of Amsterdam) gave a talk titled "Affective Representation".
Each week the Hot Politics Lab invites a speaker to give a brief talk on a timely topic, followed by a Q&A. Our meetings are open to the public, and you can join each Friday at 3pm (CET) via Zoom by following this link https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/82942755100
In this session of the Hot Politics Lab, Patrick Fournier (University of Montreal) gave a talk titled “Do Emotions Drive the Link Between Winning and Satisfaction with Democracy? Leveraging the Lion King, the Super Bowl, and the World Cup”.
Each week the Hot Politics Lab invites a speaker to give a brief talk on a timely topic, followed by a Q&A. Our meetings are open to the public, and you can join each Friday at 3pm (CET) via Zoom by following this link https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/82942755100
In this graduate Friday session of the Hot Politics Lab, research master student Delaney Peterson (University of Amsterdam) gave a talk titled “The moderating role of self-esteem on the relationship between personality and support for the populist radical right: A view from the Netherlands”. Afterwards research master student Carmen van Alebeek (University of Amsterdam) gave a presentation titled “Integrating Grievance-Based and Psychological Models of Populist Radical Right Support: Evidence From a German Panel Study”.
Each week the Hot Politics Lab invites a speaker to give a brief talk on a timely topic, followed by a Q&A. Our meetings are open to the public, and you can join each Friday at 3pm (CET) via Zoom by following this link https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/82942755100
In this graduate Friday session of the Hot Politics Lab, PhD candidate Tobias Rohrbach (Université de Fribourg) gave a talk titled “Disentangling Stereotype Incongruity in Candidate Evaluation”. Afterwards PhD candidate Maaike Homan (University of Amsterdam) gave a talk titled “Same Anger, Different Perception? Gender Bias in Emotion Perception of Politicians”.
Each week the Hot Politics Lab invites a speaker to give a brief talk on a timely topic, followed by a Q&A. Our meetings are open to the public, and you can join each Friday at 3pm (CET) via Zoom by following this link https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/96492065253
In this session of the Hot Politics Lab, Frank Gonzalez (University of Arizona) gave a talk titled “Inhibition or Ideology? The Neural Mechanisms of Racial Priming in Politics”.
Each week the Hot Politics Lab invites a speaker to give a brief talk on a timely topic, followed by a Q&A. Our meetings are open to the public, and you can join each Friday at 3pm (CET) via Zoom by following this link https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/96492065253
In this session of the Hot Politics Lab, Jochem Tolsma (Radboud University) gave a talk titled “Political Polarisation and Residential Segregation”.
Each week the Hot Politics Lab invites a speaker to give a brief talk on a timely topic, followed by a Q&A. Our meetings are open to the public, and you can join each Friday at 3pm (CET) via Zoom by following this link https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/96492065253
In this session of the Hot Politics Lab, Flavio Azevedo (University of Cambridge) gave a talk titled “Measuring Ideology: Current practices, its consequences, and recommendations”.
Each week the Hot Politics Lab invites a speaker to give a brief talk on a timely topic, followed by a Q&A. Our meetings are open to the public, and you can join each Friday at 3pm (CET) via Zoom by following this link https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/96492065253
In this session of the Hot Politics Lab, Tereza Capelos (University of Birmingham) gave a talk titled “Anger Issues: A Political Psychology Analysis of Ressentiment and Grievance Politic”.
Each week the Hot Politics Lab invites a speaker to give a brief talk on a timely topic, followed by a Q&A. Our meetings are open to the public, and you can join each Friday at 3pm (CET) via Zoom by following this link https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/96492065253
In this session of the Hot Politics Lab, Dominique Wirz (Université de Fribourg) gave a talk titled “A hostile media effect? Subjective and objective exposure to hate speech in Switzerland”.
Each week the Hot Politics Lab invites a speaker to give a brief talk on a timely topic, followed by a Q&A. Our meetings are open to the public, and you can join each Friday at 3pm (CET) via Zoom by following this link https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/96492065253
In this Graduate Friday session of the Hot Politics Lab, PhD candidate Luca Versteegen (Gothenburg University) gave a talk titled “Personality and Political Information Consumption: The Mediating Role of News Use Motives”.
Each week the Hot Politics Lab invites a speaker to give a brief talk on a timely topic, followed by a Q&A. Our meetings are open to the public, and you can join each Friday at 3pm (CET) via Zoom by following this link https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/96492065253
In this session of the Hot Politics Lab, Danna Young (Jacobs University Bremen) gave a talk titled “Oh Emotion You Wondrous Thing!”.
Each week the Hot Politics Lab invites a speaker to give a brief talk on a timely topic, followed by a Q&A. Our meetings are open to the public, and you can join each Friday at 3pm (CET) via Zoom by following this link https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/96492065253
In this session of the Hot Politics Lab, Danna Young (University of Delaware) gave a talk titled “Identity distillation and the cultivation of demand for misinformation in the U.S”.
Each week the Hot Politics Lab invites a speaker to give a brief talk on a timely topic, followed by a Q&A. Our meetings are open to the public, and you can join each Friday at 3pm (CET) via Zoom by following this link https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/96492065253
In this session of the Hot Politics Lab, Rune Slothuus (Aarhus University) gave a talk titled “What’s in a Cue? How Citizens Use Party Cues to Learn About Policy”.
Each week the Hot Politics Lab invites a speaker to give a brief talk on a timely topic, followed by a Q&A. Our meetings are open to the public, and you can join each Friday at 3pm (CET) via Zoom by following this link https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/96492065253
In this session of the Hot Politics Lab, Yphtach Lelkes (Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania) gave a talk titled “Is It Really That Easy? Reconsidering the Easy-Hard Distinction in American Politics”.
Each week the Hot Politics Lab invites a speaker to give a brief talk on a timely topic, followed by a Q&A. Our meetings are open to the public, and you can join each Friday at 3pm (CET) via Zoom by following this link https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/96492065253
In this session of the Hot Politics Lab, Matthijs Rooduijn (University of Amsterdam) gave a talk titled “Creating empathy during a theater play: experimenting with 7000 people”.
Each week the Hot Politics Lab invites a speaker to give a brief talk on a timely topic, followed by a Q&A. Our meetings are open to the public, and you can join each Friday at 3pm (CET) via Zoom by following this link https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/96492065253
In this Graduate Friday session of the Hot Politics Lab, PhD candidate Chiara Vialli (University of Bern) gave a talk titled “Personality and Political Information Consumption: The Mediating Role of News Use Motives”. Afterwards PhD candidate Maaike Homan (University of Amsterdam) gave a talk titled “Consequences of Emotional Politicians: A Conjoint Experiment”.
Each week the Hot Politics Lab invites a speaker to give a brief talk on a timely topic, followed by a Q&A. Our meetings are open to the public, and you can join each Friday at 3pm (CET) via Zoom by following this link https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/96492065253
In this session of the Hot Politics Lab, Amelie Godefroidt (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) gave a talk titled “How terrorism is changing us”.
Each week the Hot Politics Lab invites a speaker to give a brief talk on a timely topic, followed by a Q&A. Our meetings are open to the public, and you can join each Friday at 3pm (CET) via Zoom by following this link https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/96492065253
In this session of the Hot Politics Lab, Christel van Eck (University of Amsterdam) gave a talk titled “Conceptualizing ‘Online Climate Change Polarization”.
Each week the Hot Politics Lab invites a speaker to give a brief talk on a timely topic, followed by a Q&A. Our meetings are open to the public, and you can join each Friday at 3pm (CET) via Zoom by following this link https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/96492065253
In this session of the Hot Politics Lab, Israel Waismel-Manor (University of Haifa)gave a talk titled “From corruption to cyberspace: Expanding what we study and how we study it.”.
Each week the Hot Politics Lab invites a speaker to give a brief talk on a timely topic, followed by a Q&A. Our meetings are open to the public, and you can join each Friday at 3pm (CET) via Zoom by following this link https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/96492065253
In this session of the Hot Politics Lab, Nathalie Giger (University of Geneva) gave a talk titled “Perceptions of inequality and their links to ideology among political elites and citizens”. Each week the Hot Politics Lab invites a speaker to give a brief talk on a timely topic, followed by a Q&A. Our meetings are open to the public, and you can join each Friday at 3pm (CET) via Zoom by following this link https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/96492065253
In this session of the Hot Politics Lab, Marte Otten (University of Amsterdam) gave a talk titled “How (political) convictions can change basic cognition: A predictive processing approach”.
Each week the Hot Politics Lab invites a speaker to give a brief talk on a timely topic, followed by a Q&A. Our meetings are open to the public, and you can join each Friday at 3pm (CET) via Zoom by following this link https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/96492065253
In this session of the Hot Politics Lab, Frederic Hopp (University of Amsterdam) gave a talk titled “Morality in Media, Society, and the Brain”.
Each week the Hot Politics Lab invites a speaker to give a brief talk on a timely topic, followed by a Q&A. Our meetings are open to the public, and you can join each Friday at 3pm (CET) via Zoom by following this link https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/96492065253
In this session of the Hot Politics Lab, Leonie Huddy (Stony Brook University) gave a talk titled “Nationalism and Party Politics”.
Each week the Hot Politics Lab invites a speaker to give a brief talk on a timely topic, followed by a Q&A. Our meetings are open to the public, and you can join each Friday at 3pm (CET) via Zoom by following this link https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/96492065253
In this graduate Friday session of the Online Hot Politics Lab, Matthijs Gillissen (Radboud University) gave a talk titled “Empathic Concern and Party Lines: Empathy within a Multiparty System”. Afterwards PhD candidate Christian Pipal (University of Amsterdam) gave a talk titled “Do politicians change their rhetoric over time?”.
Each week the Hot Politics Lab invites a speaker to give a brief talk on a timely topic, followed by a Q&A. Our meetings are open to the public, and you can join each Friday at 3pm (CET) via Zoom by following this link https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/96492065253
In this session of the bi-annual Dutch Political Psychology Meetings, Yasin Koc (University of Groningen) gave a talk titled "Apology doesn’t kill the guilt!” Advantage group’s support for social change increases after apologizing to the disadvantaged group". Afterwards Jamie Settle (College of William & Mary) gave a talk titled "What Goes Without Saying: Navigating Political Discussion in America".
Each week the Hot Politics Lab invites a speaker to give a brief talk on a timely topic, followed by a Q&A. Our meetings are open to the public, and you can join each Friday at 3pm (CET) via Zoom by following this link https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/96492065253
In this session of the Hot Politics Lab, Hannah Nam (Stony Brook University) gave a talk titled “Genetic justification: Can narratives about genetic science impact racial attitudes and political preferences”.
Each week the Hot Politics Lab invites a speaker to give a brief talk on a timely topic, followed by a Q&A. Our meetings are open to the public, and you can join each Friday at 3pm (CET) via Zoom by following this link https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/96492065253
In this session of the Hot Politics Lab, Giselinde Kuipers (KU Leuven) gave a talk titled “Humor and Polarization: How humor can drive people apart, in politics and beyond”.
Each week the Hot Politics Lab invites a speaker to give a brief talk on a timely topic, followed by a Q&A. Our meetings are open to the public, and you can join each Friday at 3pm (CET) via Zoom by following this link https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/96492065253
In this session of the Hot Politics Lab, Alan Sanfey (Radboud University) gave a talk titled “Social motivations in choice: insights from decision neuroscience”.
Each week the Hot Politics Lab invites a speaker to give a brief talk on a timely topic, followed by a Q&A. Our meetings are open to the public, and you can join each Friday at 3pm (CET) via Zoom by following this link https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/96492065253
In this graduate Friday session of the Hot Politics Lab, PhD candidates Isabella Rebasso (University of Amsterdam) gave a talk titled "Are political sophisticates really more easily swayed by emotional appeals?". Afterwards PhD candidate Lennart Schürmann (University of Cologne) gave a talk titled “Do you need to be violent to be heard? Responsiveness and emotional reactions of Western European parties to political protests”.
Each week the Hot Politics Lab invites a speaker to give a brief talk on a timely topic, followed by a Q&A. Our meetings are open to the public, and you can join each Friday at 3pm (CET) via Zoom by following this link https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/96492065253
In this session of the Hot Politics Lab, Christopher Lucas (Washington University in St. Louis) gave a talk titled “More than Words: How Political Rhetoric Shapes Voters’ Affect and Evaluation”.
Each week the Hot Politics Lab invites a speaker to give a brief talk on a timely topic, followed by a Q&A. Our meetings are open to the public, and you can join each Friday at 3pm (CET) via Zoom by following this link https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/96492065253
In this session of the Hot Politics Lab, Hugo Mercier (CNRSA) gave a talk titled “Not born Yesterday: Why humans are less gullible than we think”.
Each week the Hot Politics Lab invites a speaker to give a brief talk on a timely topic, followed by a Q&A. Our meetings are open to the public, and you can join each Friday at 3pm (CET) via Zoom by following this link https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/96492065253
In this session of the Hot Politics Lab, Henk van der Kolk (University of Twente) gave a talk titled “Confusing Discontent: are Populism, Political Distrust, Efficacy and Cynicism really so much different?”.
Each week the Hot Politics Lab invites a speaker to give a brief talk on a timely topic, followed by a Q&A. Our meetings are open to the public, and you can join each Friday at 3pm (CET) via Zoom by following this link https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/96492065253
In this "Graduate Friday" session of the Online Hot Politics Lab, Dani Komáromy (University of Amsterdam) gave a talk titled "Designing a Greentervention – Can populist Appeals Spur Environmental Collective Action?".
Each week the Hot Politics Lab invites a guest speaker to give a brief talk on a timely topic, followed by a Q&A. Our meetings are open to the public, and you can join each Friday at 3pm (CET) via Zoom by following this link https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/96492065253
In this session of the Hot Politics Lab, Pere-Lluis Huguet Cabot (Sapienza University of Rome) and David Abadi (University ofAmsterdam) gave a talk titled “Computational approaches on modeling political rhetoric: basic emotions, media bias, metaphor, social identity and populist attitudes”.
Each week the Hot Politics Lab invites a speaker to give a brief talk on a timely topic, followed by a Q&A. Our meetings are open to the public, and you can join each Friday at 3pm (CET) via Zoom by following this link https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/96492065253
In this graduate student session of the Online Hot Politics Lab, we had three presentations by our lab interns and research master students:
- “Mirror neuron activity in response to in- vs out-party politicians: an EEG pilot study” – by Karlijn Hendriks (Neuroscience, VU)
- “Are we averse to ambitious leaders? ERP correlates in Ultimatum Game” – by Xinyao Zhang (Brain & Cognition, UvA)
- “Drawing distorted conclusions: EEG correlates of the ideological mind” – by Babke Weenk and Christian Ramelow (Brain & Cognition, UvA)
Each week the Hot Politics Lab invites a guest speaker to give a brief talk on a timely topic, followed by a Q&A.
Our meetings are open to the public, and you can join each Friday at 3pm (CET) via Zoom by following this link https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/96492065253
In this session of the Online Hot Politics Lab, Gijs Schumacher (University of Amsterdam) gave a talk titled “Doing psycho-physiological research in political science”.
Each week the Hot Politics Lab invites a guest speaker to give a brief talk on a timely topic, followed by a Q&A.
Our meetings are open to the public, and you can join each Friday at 3pm (CET) via Zoom by following this link https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/96492065253
In this session of the Online Hot Politics Lab, Bert Bakker (University of Amsterdam) gave a talk titled “Reassessing the relationship between personality and political preferences”.
Each week the Hot Politics Lab invites a guest speaker to give a brief talk on a timely topic, followed by a Q&A. Our meetings are open to the public, and you can join each Friday at 3pm (CET) via Zoom by following this link https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/96492065253
In this session of the Online Hot Politics Lab, Loes Aaldering (VU Amsterdam) gave a talk titled ‘Dark side of the Mood. Candidate Evaluation, Voter Perceptions, and the Driving Role of (Dark) Personality Traits”.
Each week the Hot Politics Lab invites a guest speaker to give a brief talk on a timely topic, followed by a Q&A. Our meetings are open to the public, and you can join each Friday at 3pm (CET) via Zoom by following this link https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/96492065253
In this “Graduate Friday” session of the Online Hot Politics Lab, PhD candidate Robin Tschötschel (University of Amsterdam) gave a talk titled “Controversies, Identity, and Emotions in Climate Change Communication”.
Each week the Hot Politics Lab invites a guest speaker to give a brief talk on a timely topic, followed by a Q&A. Our meetings are open to the public, and you can join each Friday at 3pm (CET) via Zoom by following this link https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/96492065253
In this session of the Online Hot Politics Lab, Cameron Brick (University of Amsterdam) gave a talk titled Four Europes: Climate change beliefs and attitudes predict behavior and policy preferences using a latent class analysis on 23 countries“
Each week the Hot Politics Lab invites a guest speaker to give a brief talk on a timely topic, followed by a Q&A. Our meetings are open to the public, and you can join each Friday at 3pm (CET) via Zoom by following this link https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/96492065253
In this “Graduate Friday” session of the Online Hot Politics Lab, PhD candidate Tobias Widmann (European University Institute) gave a talk titled “How Renewable Energy Divides Politics. The Impact of Wind Turbines on Moral-Emotional Language in Political Discoursee“. Aftwards PhD candidate Maaike Homan (University of Amsterdam) gave a talk titled “Same Anger, Different Perception? Gender Bias in Emotion Perception of Male and Female Politicians”.
Each week the Hot Politics Lab invites a guest speaker to give a brief talk on a timely topic, followed by a Q&A. Our meetings are open to the public, and you can join each Friday at 3pm (CET) via Zoom by following this link https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/96492065253
In this session of the Online Hot Politics Lab, Liz Connors (University of South Carolina) gave a talk titled “Partisan Social Pressure and Affective Polarization.“
Each week the Hot Politics Lab invites a guest speaker to give a brief talk on a timely topic, followed by a Q&A. Our meetings are open to the public, and you can join each Friday at 3pm (CET) via Zoom by following this link https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/96492065253
In this session of the Online Hot Politics Lab, Theresa Kuhn (University of Amsterdam) gave a talk titled “Viral Solidarity? EU Solidarity and Risk-Sharing in the COVID-19 Crisis.”
Each week the Hot Politics Lab invites a guest speaker to give a brief talk on a timely topic, followed by a Q&A. Our meetings are open to the public, and you can join each Friday at 3pm (CET) via Zoom by following this link https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/96492065253
In this session of the Online Hot Politics Lab, Diamantis Petropoulos-Petalas (University of Amsterdam) gave a talk titled “The believing brain: how cognitive neuroscience can inform us about decision-making in the political world”.
Each week the Hot Politics Lab invites a guest speaker to give a brief talk on a timely topic, followed by a Q&A. Our meetings are open to the public, and you can join each Friday at 3pm (CET) via Zoom by following this link https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/96492065253
In this "Graduate Friday" session of the Online Hot Politics Lab, PhD candidate Christian Pipal (University of Amsterdam) gave a talk titled "Emotional Rhetoric in Parliamentary Debates". Aftwards MA student Neil Fasching (University of Amsterdam) gave a talk titled "Viral Violence: The Effects of Police Violence Framing, Group Identity, and Militarization on Public Outrage and Perception of Police".
Each week the Hot Politics Lab invites a guest speaker to give a brief talk on a timely topic, followed by a Q&A. Our meetings are open to the public, and you can join each Friday at 3pm (CET) via Zoom by following this link https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/96492065253
In this session of the Online Hot Politics Lab, Lou Safra (Sciences Po Paris) gave a talk titled “What is the link between the parties’ populism and MPs’ looks and what does this tell us about political communication?”.
Each week the Hot Politics Lab invites a guest speaker to give a brief talk on a timely topic, followed by a Q&A. Our meetings are open to the public, and you can join each Friday at 3pm (CET) via Zoom by following this link https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/96492065253
In this session of the Online Hot Politics Lab, Ben Ruisch (University of Leiden) gave a talk titled “A Matter of Taste: Ideological Differences in Gustatory Sensitivity".
Each week the Hot Politics Lab invites a guest speaker to give a brief talk on a timely topic, followed by a Q&A. Our meetings are open to the public, and you can join each Friday at 3pm (CET) via Zoom by following this link https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/96492065253
In this session of the Online Hot Politics Lab, Gerben van Kleef (University of Amsterdam) gave a talk titled “No Guts, no glory? How risk-taking shapes dominance, prestige, and leadership endorsement".
Gerben van Kleef is a professor of social psychology at the University of Amsterdam. His primary research interests revolve around emotion, power, social norms, conflict, and social influence.
Each week the Hot Politics Lab invites a guest speaker to give a brief talk on a timely topic, followed by a Q&A. Our meetings are open to the public, and you can join each Friday at 3pm (CET) via Zoom by following this link https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/96492065253
In this session of the Online Hot Politics Lab, Michael Bruter (London School of Economics) gave a talk titled “The psychology of our behavior in the voting booth”.
Each week the Hot Politics Lab invites a guest speaker to give a brief talk on a timely topic, followed by a Q&A. Our meetings are open to the public, and you can join each Friday at 3pm (CET) via Zoom by following this link https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/96492065253
In this session of the Online Hot Politics Lab, Yanna Krupnikov (Department of Political Science, Stony Brook University) gave a talk titled “When and Why Affective Polarization Affects Politics”.
Each week the Hot Politics Lab invites a guest speaker to give a brief talk on a timely topic, followed by a Q&A. Our meetings are open to the public, and you can join each Friday at 3pm (CET) via Zoom by following this link https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/96492065253
In this session of the Online Hot Politics Lab, Constantine Boussalis (Trinity College Dublin) gave a talk titled “Multimodal Determinants of Voter Impression Formation of Female Political Candidates During Televised Debates”.
Constantine Boussalis holds a Ph.D. in Political Science (World and Comparative Politics) and a M.A. in International Studies from Claremont Graduate University as well as a B.A. in Political Science from California State University, Los Angeles. His research interests include environmental politics, political communication, political behavior, and computational social science. Before joining the Department of Political Science at Trinity College Dublin in 2014, Constantine served as Empirical Research Fellow at Harvard Law School from 2011.
Each week the Hot Politics Lab invites a guest speaker to give a brief talk on a timely topic, followed by a Q&A. Our meetings are open to the public, and you can join each Friday at 3pm (CET) via Zoom by following this link https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/96492065253
In this “Graduate Friday” session of the Online Hot Politics Lab, PhD candidate Linn Andrea Vik (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) gave a talk titled “Uncovering the Personality of the Unelected”. Afterwards PhD candidate Tristan Klingelhöfer (JHU, HU Berlin) gave a talk titled “Parties’ views of the voters and campaign strategy: Comparing German, Austrian, and Italian parties with respect to rationality and emotion”.
Each week the Hot Politics Lab invites a guest speaker to give a brief talk on a timely topic, followed by a Q&A. Our meetings are open to the public, and you can join each Friday at 3pm (CET) via Zoom by following this link https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/96492065253
In this session of the Online Hot Politics Lab, Leor Zmigrod (Department of Psychology & Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute, University of Cambridge) gave a talk titled “A Cognitive Science of the Ideological Mind”.
Dr Leor Zmigrod is a Junior Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge. Her research combines methods from experimental psychology, cognitive science, and neuroscience to investigate the psychology of ideological adherence and group identity formation. In particular, she is interested in investigating cognitive characteristics that might act as vulnerability factors for radicalization and ideologically-motivated behaviour.
Each week the Hot Politics Lab invites a guest speaker to give a brief talk on a timely topic, followed by a Q&A. Our meetings are open to the public, and you can join each Friday at 3pm (CET) via Zoom by following this link https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/96492065253
In this session of the Online Hot Politics Lab, Ursula Daxecker (University of Amsterdam) gave a talk titled “How Hostile Misinformation Shapes Beliefs and Attitudes: A Pre-Analysis Plan for a Survey Experiment in India.”, presenting ongoing joint work with Hanne Fjelde (Uppsala University & Peace Research Institute Oslo)
Ursula Daxecker is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam. Her research focuses on elections and conflict. From 2020-2025, she is working on the project Elections, Violence, and Parties funded by the European Research Council. Her research has previously been funded by the Dutch Science Foundation (NWO), the European Commission’s Marie Curie Actions, and the U.S. Department of Defense Minerva Research Initiative. She is the guest editor (with Kristine Höglund and Sarah Birch) of the 2020 Special Issue “Electoral Violence” in Journal of Peace Research.
Each week the Hot Politics Lab invites a guest speaker to give a brief talk on a timely topic, followed by a Q&A. Our meetings are open to the public, and you can join each Friday at 3pm (CET) via Zoom by following this link https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/96492065253
In this episode of the Online Hot Politics Lab, lab directors Gijs Schumacher and Bert Bakker sit down and have a look back at the the past year. They reflect on the challenges and opportunities of moving the lab online, our great guests, and the research taking place in the Hot Politics Lab. We hope you'll join again next year! Each week the Hot Politics Lab invites a guest speaker to give a brief talk on a timely topic, followed by a Q&A.
Our meetings are open to the public, and you can join each Friday at 3pm (CET) via Zoom by following this link https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/96492065253
In this “Graduate Friday” session of the Online Hot Politics Lab, PhD candidate Maaike Homan (University of Amsterdam) gave a talk titled “Do we mimic politicians? Examining voters’ response to emotional politicians”. Aftwards PhD candidate Can Zengin (Temple University) gave a talk titled “The Role of Self-Conscious Emotions in Affective Polarization”.
Each week the Hot Politics Lab invites a guest speaker to give a brief talk on a timely topic, followed by a Q&A. Our meetings are open to the public, and you can join each Friday at 3pm (CET) via Zoom by following this link https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/96492065253
In this session of the Online Hot Politics Lab, Patrick Stewart (University of Arkansas) gave a talk titled “Facing Farage: Using the Componential Processing Model of emotion to understand U.K. & U.S. citizen appraisal of immigration arguments”.
Each week the Hot Politics Lab invites a guest speaker to give a brief talk on a timely topic, followed by a Q&A. Our meetings are open to the public, and you can join each Friday at 3pm (CET) via Zoom by following this link https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/96492065253
In this session of the Online Hot Politics Lab, Mariken van der Velden (VU Amsterdam) gave a talk titled “Give a Little, Take a Little”: Political Parties’ Reputational Cost of Compromises.
Each week the Hot Politics Lab invites a guest speaker to give a brief talk on a timely topic, followed by a Q&A. Our meetings are open to the public, and you can join each Friday at 3pm (CET) via Zoom by following this link https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/96492065253
In this “Graduate Friday” session of the Online Hot Politics Lab, PhD candidate Tobias Rohrbach (University of Fribourg / University of Amsterdam) gave a talk titled “Meta-analysis of gender differences in mediated candidate evaluations: Preliminary results”. Aftwards PhD candidate Lala Muradova Huseynova (KU Leuven) gave a talk titled “COVID-19 Disinformation and Minipublics: Experimental Evidence from the US and Ireland”. We will also had a talk by BA student Dante Della Gatta (University of Amsterdam) titled “Same Anger, Different Perception? Gender Bias in Emotion Perception of Male and Female Politicians”
In this session of the Online Hot Politics Lab, Ursula Hess (Humboldt University Berlin) gave a talk titled “Facial mimicry in social contexts”.
Each week the Hot Politics Lab invites a guest speaker to give a brief talk on a timely topic, followed by a Q&A. Our meetings are open to the public, and you can join each Friday at 3pm (CET) via Zoom by following this link https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/96492065253
In this session of the Online Hot Politics Lab, Ashley Jardina (Duke University) gave a talk titled ““White identity politics”.
Each week the Hot Politics Lab invites a guest speaker to give a brief talk on a timely topic, followed by a Q&A. Our meetings are open to the public, and you can join each Friday at 3pm (CET) via Zoom by following this link https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/96492065253
In this session of the Online Hot Politics Lab, Jennifer Jerit (Darthmouth College) will give a talk titled “When do people correct misinformation”.
Each week the Hot Politics Lab invites a guest speaker to give a brief talk on a timely topic, followed by a Q&A. Our meetings are open to the public, and you can join each Friday at 3pm (CET) via Zoom by following this link https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/96492065253
In this “Graduate Friday” session of the Online Hot Politics Lab, PhD candidate Isabella Rebasso (University of Amsterdam) gave a talk titled “Testing the (in)congruence of physiological and self-reported responses to emotion frames. (Pre-Analysis Plan)”. Aftwards research master student Neil Fasching (University of Amsterdam) gave a talk titled “Childhood personality and ideology: evidence from 2 conceptual replications in the UK”.
In this session of the Online Hot Politics Lab, Robert Klemmensen(University of Southern Denmark) gave a talk titled “Elites - Are they different?”. Each week the Hot Politics Lab invites a guest speaker to give a brief talk on a timely topic, followed by a Q&A. Our meetings are open to the public, and you can join each Friday at 3pm (CET) via Zoom by following this link https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/96492065253
In this session of the Online Hot Politics Lab, Manos Tsakiris (Royal Holloway, University of London) gave a talk titled “Experimenting with the Visceral Dimension of Visual Politics”.
Each week the Hot Politics Lab invites a guest speaker to give a brief talk on a timely topic, followed by a Q&A. Our meetings are open to the public, and you can join each Friday at 3pm (CET) via Zoom by following this link https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/96492065253
In this session of the Online Hot Politics Lab, Lene Aarøe (Aarhus University) gave a talk titled "Evolutionary Psychology and Citizens’ Dissemination of Political News in Interpersonal Communication".
Each week the Hot Politics Lab invites a guest speaker to give a brief talk on a timely topic, followed by a Q&A. Our meetings are open to the public, and you can join each Friday at 3pm (CET) via Zoom by following this link https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/96492065253
In this "Graduate Friday" session of the Online Hot Politics Lab, PhD candidate Haylee Kelsall (University of Amsterdam) will gave a talk titled "Political information diversity and affective (de)polarisation". Aftwards PhD candidate Christian Pipal (University of Amsterdam) presented his pre-analysis plan on "Emotional appeals in parliamentary debates".
In this session of the Online Hot Politics Lab, Catherine E. de Vries (Bocconi University) gave a talk titled “Intergenerational Conflict and COVID-19”.
Each week the Hot Politics Lab invites a guest speaker to give a brief talk on a timely topic, followed by a Q&A. Our meetings are open to the public, and you can join each Friday at 3pm (CET) via Zoom by following this link https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/96492065253
In this session of the Online Hot Politics Lab, Steven W. Webster (Indiana University) presented his work on anger in politics. His book "American Rage: How Anger Shapes Our Politics" was published in August 2020 with Cambridge University Press.
Each week the Hot Politics Lab invites a guest speaker to give a brief talk on a timely topic, followed by a Q&A. Our meetings are open to the public, and you can join each Friday at 3pm (CET) via Zoom by following this link https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/96492065253
In this session of the Online Hot Politics Lab, Julian Aichholzer (University of Vienna) presented work on preferences for personality traits in politicians.
In this session of the Online Hot Politics Lab, PhD candidate Isabella Rebasso (UvA Political Science) presented her work on discrete emotional appeals in politics. Aftewards, PhD candidate Tobias Rohrbach (UoFribourg) gave a talk titled “Using think-aloud protocol analysis to explore the process of gendered candidate evaluations”.
In this session of the Online Hot Politics Lab, Chris Federico (U Minnesota) gave a talk titled “Collective Narcissism as a Basis for Nationalism”.
In this session of the Online Hot Politics Lab, Ryan Boyd (U Lancaster) gave a talk titled “Psychology and Verbal Behavior”.
Ryan Boyd is a computational social scientist at Lancaster University (previously Microsoft, University of Texas) interested in language, personality and motivations. He tries to understand how hidden patterns in our language reveal who we are and how we think. His work has appeared in various interdisciplinary journals such Science Advances, PNAS, Dreaming and the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
The Online Hot Politics Lab meets every Friday at 3pm (CET). Everybody is welcome to join via Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/839478901
In this session of the Online Hot Politics Lab, Agneta Fischer (UvA Social Psychology) gave a talk on "Fear and Populism".
he Online Hot Politics Lab meets every Friday at 3pm (CET). Everybody is welcome to join via Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/839478901
In this session of the Online Hot Politics Lab, Maaike Homan (UvA Political Science) presented preliminary results of a preregistered physiology experiment examining how people respond to politicians’ emotional displays, and Christian Pipal (UvA Political Science) introduced a new method to measure emotions in parliamentary speeches.
The Online Hot Politics Lab meets every Friday at 3pm (CET). Everybody is welcome to join via Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/839478901
In this session of the Online Hot Politics Lab, Gordon Pennycook (U Regina) presented his work on the predictors of covid attitudes and behaviors as well as work on correcting misinformation which is very relevant to understanding the corona-crisis. The Online Hot Politics Lab meets every Friday at 3pm (CET). Everybody is welcome to join via Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/839478901
In this session of the Online Hot Politics Lab, Melissa Baker (UC Merced, Political Science) presented a paper on political engagement and the susceptibility to anxiety. Afterwards, Ming Boyer (University of Vienna, Communication Science) presented a paper on the role of affective states in explaining motivated reasoning in response to political news. The Online Hot Politics Lab meets every Friday at 3pm (CET). Everybody is welcome to join via Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/839478901
In this session of the Online Hot Politics Lab, Chris Karpowitz (Brigham Young University, Political Science) and Joshua Gubler (Brigham Young University, Political Science) gave a talk about their work on mixed affective states.
In this session of the Online Hot Politics Lab, Shana Gadarian (Syracuse University, Political Science) gave a talk on anxiety and politics. She also talked about the geography of COVID-19 and individual health behavior. You can find some recent work on this here: https://tompepinsky.com/2020/03/29/th... .
The Online Hot Politics Lab meets every Friday at 3pm (CET). Everybody is welcome to join via Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/839478901
In this session of the Online Hot Politics Lab, Anne Marthe van der Bles (University of Groningen, Psychology) gave a talk about communicating uncertainty (see her recent PNAS paper: https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/03/17/1913678117) on trust and follow-up studies on COVID-19.
The Online Hot Politics Lab meets every Friday at 3pm (CET). Everybody is welcome to join via Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/839478901
In this session of the Online Hot Politics Lab, Julia van Weert gave a talk about insights from health communication regarding COVID-19. She is also a member of the national advisory board that the RIVM installed recently to help inform their policies.
The Online Hot Politics Lab meets every Friday at 3pm (CET). Everybody is welcome to join via Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/839478901
In our second online meeting (27.3.2020), Prof. Stuart Soroka (University of Michigan, discussed the persuasiveness of negative news and the potential for positive news.
The Online Hot Politics Lab meets every Friday at 3pm (CET). Everybody is welcome to join via Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/839478901
In out first online meeting (20.3.2020), Prof. Michael Bang Petersen (Aarhus University) discussed how democratic governments should mobilize their publics to defeat COVID-19. On March 9th he wrote an article that shaped the Danish government’s response to the virus. His key point: “#FlattenTheCurve via “optimistic anxiety.”!