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
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.
Bert will be editing a special issue on “Personality and Politics” for Personality and Individual Differences together with Chris Dawes (NYU), Aron Weinschenck (University of Wisconsin-Green Bay) and Robert Klemmensen (University of Southern Denmark). Read the call for papers here.
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