We study the role of emotion, rhetoric and personality in politics.
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.
Principal Investigators: Gijs Schumacher, Matthijs Rooduijn , and Bert Bakker
In a new paper published in Nature Human Behavior, lab members Bert Bakker and Gijs Schumacher, together with Claire Gothreau and Kevin Arceneaux, find no evidence that conservatives are more sensitive to threat compared to liberals. Bert Bakker talked to NPO Radio 1 about this research and the importance of repliation.
The program for the 9th Dutch Political Psychology Meeting on March 13th 2020 is now available. You can find the program and further information regarding the event here.
The 9th Dutch Political Psychology Meeting will be helt on Friday, March 13th from 10:00 – 17:00. You can find more information here.
The Hot Politics Lab is organizing a full-day conference-in-a-conference on the advances on emotions in politics at MPSA 2020 on April 18th 2020 in Chicago. Have a look at the exciting programme here!
Bert Bakker was awared a Marie Curie Global fellowship for his project: Politics isn’t hot. It is cool. This will be conducted in the Hot Politics Lab.
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