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 recruiting a postdoc to complement our current team, focusing on studying emotions in politics. You can find more information and application details here. The closing date is October 9th 2020.
Please join us for our first Online Political Psychology Meeting, which will take place on Thursday November 12th from 15:00 – 17:00. Political psychology is a thriving discipline in the Netherlands and beyond. We organize the political psychology meetings to further consolidate this field of research in the region of the Netherlands. However, due
The paper “Hot Politics? Affective responses to political rhetoric” by Hot Politics Lab members Bert N. Bakker, Gijs Schumacher and Matthijs Rooduijn is now out at the American Political Science Review! Do politics make you sweat or frown? In this study, our colleagues measured the intensity (arousal) and direction (valence)
Starting Friday, September 4th, the weekly online meetings of the Hot Politics Lab will be held again virtually using Zoom. We put together an exciting programme for the fall semester 2020 and look forward to welcoming many of you! The meetings take place every Friday. The talks will be followed
We’ve put together an overview of all our lab meetings up do date, and you can find video and audio records of all our meetings from March 2020 onwards. Presentation slides are also available for some earlier talks. You can find our archive here: http://www.hotpolitics.eu/lab-meetings-archive/.
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