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.

Bert and Vin Arceneaux (Temple University) will organize a working group on physiology and politics. During one day, a group of 20 scholars will meet to discuss the state of the art in physiology and politics. This will be followed by a round table discussion and a dinner. The program

Bert Bakker and Gijs Schumacher received funding to conduct a study that will be part of the Special Issue on “Disgust and Political Attitudes”. In their project, Bert and Gijs will study to what extent people experience physiological and self-reported disgust in response to politics. In the coming period they

posts May 7, 2018 Is politics hot? Do politicians evoke physiological responses? We will present the first findings from our OnderbuikNL project on May 8th at Spui25 (20.00-21.30). We will show which physiological responses people have to political ads they agree or disagree with. And whether left-wing and right-wing people have different physiological responses

posts March 28, 2018 The Hot Politics Lab members will present 6 papers at the Midwest Political Science Association Conference in Chicago (April 5-8). Nr. Citation 1 Experimental Evidence of Loss Aversion Among Swedish Politicians, Gijs Schumacher and Patrik Ohberg The paper shows that Swedish politicians desire more change in the party’s