Video & Audio Recordings
Here you can find the materials of our weekly lab meetings. Since our move online in March 2020, we’ve been recording these meetings. You can find video and audio-recodings below.
We did not record the pre-corona talks. Here we only have powerpoints.
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: https://zoom.us/j/839478901
| Date | Speaker | Topic | Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10/1 | Sander van Haperen (UvA) | “Emotions, Protest, Social Media” | 10/4 | Anne Marthe van der Bles (Groningen) | “The effects of communicating uncertainty on on facts, numbers and science” |
| 17/1 | Joël van der Weele (UvA) | “Self-Persuasion: Evidence from Field Experiments at Two International Debating Competitions” Paper | 17/4 | Shana Gadarian (Syracuse) | “Anxiety and Politics” |
| 24/1 | Disa Sauter (UvA) | “Emotions in the Voice” | 24/4 | Chris Karpowitz and Joshua Gubler (BYU) | “Mixed Affective States” |
| 31/1 | Emma van den Hoes (EUI) | “Who needs truth? Processing (mis)information” | 1/5 | Melissa Baker (Merced) | “Political engagement and the susceptibility to anxiety.” |
| Sanne van Oosten (UvA) | “Pre-analysis plan(s): An MP who looks like me?” | Ming Boyer (Vienna) | “The role of affective states in explaining motivated reasoning in response to political news. “ | ||
| 7/2 | Wouter van der Brug (UvA) | “Keeping up with the Joneses? Neighborhood effects on the vote” | 15/5 | Gordon Pennycook (Regina) | “On the psychology and misperceptions about COVID-19” |
| 14/2 | Martin Rosema (Twente) | “Measuring Partisan Identities” | 29/5 | Maaike Homan (UvA) | “Preliminary results: Facing Emotional Politicians” |
| 28/2 | Maaike Homan (UvA) | “Preanalysis plan: mimicking politicians” | Christian Pipal (UvA) | “Joint Sentiment Topic Models for Political Speech” | |
| Mickey Steijaert (VU) | “Political News Sharing Appraisals” | 5/6 | Agneta Fischer (UvA) | “Fear and Populism” | |
| 6/3 | Isabella Rebasso (UvA) | “Preanalysis plan: anger and anxiety in politics” | 12/6 | Ryan Boyd (Lancaster) | “Psychology and Verbal Behavior” |
| Eline de Rooij (Simon Fraser University) | “Gendered Voter Mobilization within Households” | 19/6 | Chris Federico (Minnesota) | “Collective Narcissism as a Basis for Nationalism” | |
| 20/3 | Michael Bang Petersen (Aarhus) | “Leadership During Covid-19” | 26/6 | Tobias Rohrbach (Fribourg/UvA) | “Thinking Aloud Protocols in Gendered Candidate Evaluations” |
| 27/3 | Stuart Soroka (Michigan) | “The Increasing Viability of Good News” | Isabella Rebasso (UvA) | “Discrete Emotional Appeals in Politics” | |
| 3/4 | Julia van Weert (UvA) | “Communication about Corona” |
| Date | Speaker | Topic | Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6/9 | Ming Boyer (Vienna) | Motivated Reasoning | 8/11 | Ruthie Pliskin (Leiden) | |
| Maaike Homan (UvA) | “Face Value: The Irresistible Influence of First Impressions, written by A. Todorov.” | Jos van Berkum (Utrecht) | “Emotion in discourse: Simulation, evaluation, and more?” | ||
| 13/9 | Bert Bakker (UvA) | “Pre-analysis plans and pre-registration” | 22/11 | Isabella Rebasso (UvA) | “Anger and Anxiety in Politics” |
| Gijs Schumacher (UvA) | “Why do politicians go emotional?” | Linda Bos (UvA) | ““The presence and effects of moral appeals in European political elite communication” | ||
| 20/9 | Mariken van der Velden (VU) | “How to write better code?” | 29/11 | Lena Masch (Dusseldorf) | “Emotional Expressions of Politicians| |
| 4/10 | Wahided Achbari (UvA) | “Trust Radius In An Experimental Design: To What Extent Are Those “Most People” Out-Groups? “ | Susann Kohout (UvA) | “Receiving Others’ Attention with Anger: Results of An Eye Tracking Study on the Effects of Emotions in User Comments on Attention and Recognition Memory” | |
| 11/10 | Andreu Casas (UvA) | “Automated Visual Clustering: A Technique for Image Corpus Exploration and Annotation Cost Reduction” | 6/12 | Philipp Mendoza, Nicolai Berk, Joao Areal Neto (UvA) | “APART – measuring affective polarization in parliamentary speeches” |
| Nicolai Berk (UvA) | “To lead or to follow? Mainstream parties’ strategies and radical right success in Germany” | Jan-Willem Duyvendak (UvA) | “The sociology of emotions” | ||
| 18/10 | Christian Pipal (UvA) | “Emotional rhetoric in legislative debate.” | 13/12 | Mariska Kret (Leiden) | “Emotional expressions in Homo and Pan” |
| Ebe-Manye Outtara (UvA) | “From norms, to traits, to trust? An experimental panel study into norms of political leaders’ traits and their relation to political trust” | Mike Medeiros (UvA) | “Gender, Personality, and Elected Office” | ||
| 1/11 | Amanda Friesen (IUPUI) | “Which Women When: Understanding the Role of Gender in Political Engagement” | 20/12 | Loes Aaldering (Vienna) | “Seeing the bigger picture. The consequences of (non)verbal gender stereotyping in politicians’ media coverage for media consumption and political attitudes.” |
| Gijs Schumacher (UvA) | “How to organize a workflow with multiple authors? Do’s and don’ts” | Gijs Schumacher (UvA) | Yikes! Are we disgusted by politicians” |
| Date | Speaker | Topic | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6/12 | Vin Arceneaux (Temple University) | On physiology and experiments in politics | |||
| 17/1 | Gijs Schumacher and Bert Bakker (UvA) | Yikes! Are we disgusted by politicians? | |||
| 31/1 | Sanne van Oosten (UvA) | Survey Experiment: An MP who looks like me | |||
| 8/3 | Kirsti Jylha (IFS) | Climate Change Denial and Personality | |||
| 15/3 | Lukas Otto (UvA) | Mobile experience sampling and political communication | |||
| 29/3 | Erik de Vries (Stavanger) | Sentiment analysis of news media | |||
| 26/4 | Alex Nai (UvA) | Resistance to Persuasion and Personality. | |||
| 10/5 | Eelco Harteveld (UvA) | Affective Polarization | |||
| 17/5 | Barbara Vis & Anthony Kevins (UU) | Blame avoidance | |||
| 7/6 | Imrat Verhoeven (UvA) | Emotions in politicians’ rhetoric on the earthquakes in Groningen | |||
| Rasmus Skytte (Aarhus) | The effects of uncivil elite rhetoric | ||||
| 14/6 | Susi Kohout (UvA) | emotions in user comments to facebook news posts | |||
| 21/6 | Mike Medeiros (UvA) | Elite Personality and decision-making |
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”.
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”.
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”.
In this session of the Hot Politics Lab, Alan Sanfey (Radboud University) gave a talk titled “Social motivations in choice: insights from decision neuroscience”.
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”.
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”.
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”.
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?”.
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?”.
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”.
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)
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”.
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”.
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”.
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”.
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“
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 Discourse“. 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”.
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.“
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.”
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”.
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”. Afterwards research master 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”.
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?”.
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”.
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”.
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”.
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”.
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”.
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”.
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”.
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)
In this special episode of the Hot Politics Lab Meetings, lab directors Gijs Schumacher and Bert Bakker sat down together and had 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!
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”.
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”.
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.
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 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”.
In this session of the Online Hot Politics Lab, Ashley Jardina (Duke University) gave a talk titled “White identity politics”.
In this session of the Online Hot Politics Lab, Jennifer Jerit (Darthmouth College) gave a talk titled “When do people correct misinformation”.
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?”.
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”.
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”.
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”.
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.
In this session of the Online Hot Politics Lab, Julian Aichholzer (University of Vienna) presented his 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.
In this session of the Online Hot Politics Lab, Agneta Fischer (UvA Social Psychology) gave a talk on “Fear and Populism”.
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.
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.
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.
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… .
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.
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.
In our second online meeting Stuart Soroka (University of Michigan) discussed the persuasiveness of negative news and the potential for positive news.
Michael Bang Peterson 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.”!
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