🚨work🚨: I am hiring 2 PhD students for my NWO Funding VIDI project “Under Pressure”. The project studies causes and consequences of citizens' perceptions of societal threats. Deadline to apply is April 17. Details about the project and positions below. vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/2-PhD-…

Full house at ASCoR | @[email protected] for the #DutchPoliticalPsychologyMeeting co-organized with the #HotPoliticsLab. Great to see so much enthusiasm for this field in NL. First up, Daan Scheepers to talk about physiological responses to challenge and threat

🚨Preprint🚨: We replicate and extent the negativity bias argument of Stuart Soroka in pol comm. In a preregistered study in the Netherlands we find that negative news is arousing but also causes negative affect (corrugator & self-reports). Preprint here: osf.io/preprints/psya…

“Verrassend genoeg blijkt dat mensen zich minder bezorgd en bedreigd voelen bij immigratie dan bij andere onderwerpen” Bert Bakker, @GijsSchumacher en ik vergelijken op Stuk Rood Vlees wat Nederlanders van migratie, klimaatverandering en energie vinden. shorturl.at/DEV05

Leuk artikel van het NRC over het uiterlijk en non-verbale emoties van politici . Met een aantal stukjes uit mijn eigen onderzoek: nrc.nl/nieuws/2023/11…

#OpenAccess from @PLSjournal - Establishing the validity and robustness of facial electromyography measures for political science - cup.org/47Bmu09 - @GijsSchumacher, @maaikehoman, @isabella_reb, Neil Fasching, Bert Bakker & Matthijs Rooduijn #FirstView

Read about the award winning MA thesis of Linda Bomm showing men, compared to women, believe female sexual assault survivors less, blame women more, and judge them more negatively – especially if they identify strongly with their male gender. universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2024/0…

Do you struggle how to measure affective polarization when you have more than 2 parties? Jakob Kasper, @GijsSchumacher & I show in our new working paper that brief measures of affective polarization can have acceptable construct and predictive validity. All details ⬇️

Are you studying affective polarization in multiparty systems but don't have space for 8, 9, or 15 party-ratings? Jakob Kasper lead our paper validating brief affective polarization measures: measures are valid when you have ratings of 4-5 large and ideologically divers parties

Full house in the @HotPoliticsLab today for a workshop organized by @GijsSchumacher & Malte lüken where they introduce MEXACA - a tool to capture multimodal expressions of emotion. Read their preprint here: osf.io/56svb

To what extent does seeing the face of political leaders influence early brain activity? While the mere exposure - without any context - does not seem to induce divergent neural processing of partisan identity, it still enhances visual processing: osf.io/preprints/psya… 1/8

Sometimes it seems as if more and more politicians are making gains through angry behaviour 😡 Yet voters generally prefer a happy facial expression and positive tone!😃 Interesting findings by Maaike Homan, who defends her thesis on 8 May 👩‍🎓 👇 aissr.uva.nl/shared/uva/en/…

Hoe beïnvloeden de emoties van politici ons als stemmers? Zijn het vooral de boze of juist de blije emoties die ons overhalen? Lees hier op Sociale Vraagstukken de belangrijkste bevindingen van mijn proefschrift 👇 socialevraagstukken.nl/hoe-politici-k…

🚨Vacancy Alert!🚨 Exciting PhD position in an interdisciplinary Strategic Communication, Wageningen University and @WURLaw project on polarization and legal battles in the context of pesticide regulation 🥬👩‍⚖️the ⏳Deadline 14/10. See the link below for all info, DM me your questions & please spread the word! 🙏

Mooie nieuwe studie van @HotPoliticsLab collega @GijsSchumacher e.a.: een grootschalige replicatie van een studie naar de associatie tussen ideology en breinstructuur. Laat eens te meer het belang van preregistratie en replicatie zien.