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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

2023 - Semester 2

2023 - Semester 1

2022 - Semester 2

2022 - Semester 1

2021 - Semester 2

2021 - Semester 1

2020 - Semester 2

2020 - Semester 1

2019 - Semester 2

2019 - Semester 1

2023 - Semester 2

Date	Speaker	Topic	Date	Speaker	Topic
03/02	Delaney Peterson (University of Amsterdam)	“The moderating role of self-esteem on the relationship between personality and support for the populist radical right: A view from the Netherlands”
03/02	Carmen van Alebeek (University of Amsterdam)	“Integrating Grievance-Based and Psychological Models of Populist Radical Right Support: Evidence From a German Panel Study”
10/02	Patrick Fournier (University of Montreal)	“Do Emotions Drive the Link Between Winning and Satisfaction with Democracy? Leveraging the Lion King, the Super Bowl, and the World Cup”
17/02	Gijs Schumacher (University of Amsterdam)	“Affective Representation”

2023 - Semester 1

Date	Speaker	Topic	Date	Speaker	Topic
03/02	Delaney Peterson (University of Amsterdam)	“The moderating role of self-esteem on the relationship between personality and support for the populist radical right: A view from the Netherlands”
03/02	Carmen van Alebeek (University of Amsterdam)	“Integrating Grievance-Based and Psychological Models of Populist Radical Right Support: Evidence From a German Panel Study”
10/02	Patrick Fournier (University of Montreal)	“Do Emotions Drive the Link Between Winning and Satisfaction with Democracy? Leveraging the Lion King, the Super Bowl, and the World Cup”
17/02	Gijs Schumacher (University of Amsterdam)	“Affective Representation”

2022 - Semester 2

Date	Speaker	Topic	Date	Speaker	Topic
16/09	Han van der Maas (University of Amsterdam)	“Cascading transitions in psycho-social systems”	4/11	Flavio Azevedo (University of Cambridge)	“Measuring Ideology: Current practices, its consequences, and recommendations”
30/09	Isabella Rebasso (University of Amsterdam)	Does confidence in political knowledge affect our emotions?”	11/11	Jochem Tolsma (Radboud University)	“Political Polarisation and Residential Segregation”
30/09	Sun Young Park (Harvard University)	Measuring Norms of (In)tolerance: How Partisan Animosity Spreads in Social Relations.”	18/11	Frank Gonzalez (University of Arizona)	“Inhibition or Ideology? The Neural Mechanisms of Racial Priming in Politics”
07/10	Dominique Wirz (Université de Fribourg)	“A hostile media effect? Subjective and objective exposure to hate speech in Switzerland”	25/11	Tobias Rohrbach (Université de Fribourg)	“Disentangling Stereotype Incongruity in Candidate Evaluation”
14/10	Tereza Capelos (University of Birmingham)	“Anger Issues: A Political Psychology Analysis of Ressentiment and Grievance Politic”	25/11	Maaike Homan (University of Amsterdam)	“Same Anger, Different Perception? Gender Bias in Emotion Perception of Politicians”

2022 - Semester 1

Date	Speaker	Topic	Date	Speaker	Topic
14/01	Marte Otten (University of Amsterdam)	“How (political) convictions can change basic cognition: A predictive processing approach”	04/03	Matthijs Rooduijn (University of Amsterdam)	“Creating empathy during a theater play: experimenting with 7000 people”
21/01	Nathalie Giger (University of Geneva)	“Perceptions of inequality and their links to ideology among political elites and citizens”	11/03	Yphtach Lelkes (University of Pennsylvania)	“Is It Really That Easy? Reconsidering the Easy-Hard Distinction in American Politics”
28/02	Israel Waismel-Manor (University of Haifa)	“From corruption to cyberspace: Expanding what we study and how we study it.”	01/04	Rune Sloterhuus (Aarhus University)	“What’s in a Cue? How Citizens Use Party Cues to Learn About Policy”
04/02	Christel van Eck (University of Amsterdam)	“Conceptualizing ‘Online Climate Change Polarization’”	20/05	Danna Young (University of Delaware)	“Identity distillation and the cultivation of demand for misinformation in the U.S.”
11/02	Amelie Godefroidt (NTNU)	“How terrorism is changing us”	03/06	Arvid Kappas (Jacobs University Bremen)	“Oh Emotion You Wondrous Thing!”
18/02	Chiara Vialli (University of Bern)	“Personality and Political Information Consumption: The Mediating Role of News Use Motives”	24/06	Luca Versteegen (Gothenburg University)	“We Love, They Hate: How Radical Right Voters Use Emotion Narratives to Consolidate Affective Polarization”
18/02	Maaike Homan (University of Amsterdam)	“Consequences of Emotional Politicians: A Conjoint Experiment”

2021 - Semester 2

Date	Speaker	Topic	Date	Speaker	Topic
17/09	Pere-Lluís Huguet Cabot (Sapienza University of Rome) and David Abadi (University ofAmsterdam)	“Computational approaches on modeling political rhetoric: basic emotions, media bias, metaphor, social identity and populist attitudes”	05/11	Giselinde Kuipers (KU Leuven)	“Humor and Polarization: How humor can drive people apart, in politics and beyond”
24/09	Dani Komáromy (University of Amsterdam)	“Designing a Greentervention – Can populist Appeals Spur Environmental Collective Action?”	12/11	Hannah Nam (Stoney Brook University)	“Genetic justification: Can narratives about genetic science impact racial attitudes and political preferences”
01/10	Henk van der Kolk (University of Twente	“Confusing Discontent: are Populism, Political Distrust, Efficacy and Cynicism really so much different?”	19/11	Yasin Koc (University of Groningen)	“Apology doesn’t kill the guilt!” Advantage group’s support for social change increases after apologizing to the disadvantaged group”
8/10	Hugo Mercier (CNRSA)	“Not born Yesterday: Why humans are less gullible than we think”	19/11	Jamie Settle (College of William & Mary)	“What Goes Without Saying: Navigating Political Discussion in America”
15/10	Christopher Lucas (Washington University in St. Louis)	“More than Words: How Political Rhetoric Shapes Voters’ Affect and Evaluation”	26/11	Matthijs Gillissen (Radboud University)	“Empathic Concern and Party Lines: Empathy within a Multiparty System”
22/10	Isabella Rebasso (University of Amsterdam)	“Are political sophisticates really more easily swayed by emotional appeals?”	26/11	Christian Pipal (University of Amsterdam)	“Do politicians change their rhetoric over time?”
22/10	Lennart Schürmann (University of Cologne)	“Do you need to be violent to be heard? Responsiveness and emotional reactions of Western European parties to political protests”	3/12	Leonie Huddy (Stoney Brook University)	“Nationalism and Party Politics”
29/10	Alan Sanfey (Radboud University)	“Social motivations in choice: insights from decision neuroscience”	10/12	Frederic Hopp (University of Amsterdam)	“Morality in Media, Society, and the Brain”

2021 - Semester 1

Date	Speaker	Topic	Date	Speaker	Topic
15/1	Ursula Daxecker (UvA)	“How Hostile Misinformation Shapes Beliefs and Attitudes: A Pre-Analysis Plan for a Survey Experiment in India.”	9/4	Diamantis Petropoulos-Petalas (University of Amsterdam)	“The believing brain: how cognitive neuroscience can inform us about decision-making in the political world”
22/1	Leor Zmigrod (University of Cambridge)	“A Cognitive Science of the Ideological Mind”	16/4	Theresa Kuhn (University of Amsterdam)	“Viral Solidarity? EU Solidarity and Risk-Sharing in the COVID-19 Crisis”
29/1	Linn Andrea Vik (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)	“Uncovering the Personality of the Unelected”	23/4	Liz Connors (University of South Carolina)	“Partisan Social Pressure and Affective Polarization.”
29/1	Tristan Klingelhöfer (JHU, HU Berlin)	“Parties’ views of the voters and campaign strategy: Comparing German, Austrian, and Italian parties with respect to rationality and emotion”	30/4	Tobias Widmann (European University Institute)	“How Renewable Energy Divides Politics. The Impact of Wind Turbines on Moral-Emotional Language in Political Discourse.”
5/2	Constantine Boussalis (Trinity College Dublin)	“Multimodal Determinants of Voter Impression Formation of Female Political Candidates During Televised Debates”	30/4	Maaike Homan (University of Amsterdam)	“Same Anger, Different Perception? Gender Bias in Emotion Perception of Male and Female Politicians.”
12/2	Yanna Krupnikov (Stony Brook University)	“When and Why Affective Polarization Affects Politics”	21/5	Cameron Brick (University of Amsterdam)	“Four Europes: Climate change beliefs and attitudes predict behavior and policy preferences using a latent class analysis on 23 countries”
19/2	Michael Bruter (London School of Economics)	“The psychology of our behavior in the voting booth”	28/5	Robin Tschötschel (University of Amsterdam)	“Controversies, Identity, and Emotions in Climate Change Communication”
12/3	Ben Ruisch (University of Leiden)	“A Matter of Taste: Ideological Differences in Gustatory Sensitivity”	4/6	Loes Aaldering (VU Amsterdam)	“Dark side of the Mood. Candidate Evaluation, Voter Perceptions, and the Driving Role of (Dark) Personality Traits”
19/3	Lou Safra (Science Po Paris)	“What is the link between the parties’ populism and MPs’ looks and what does this tell us about political communication?”	11/6	Bert Bakker (University of Amsterdam)	“Reassessing the relationship between personality and political preferences”
26/3	Christian Pipal (University of Amsterdam)	“Emotional Rhetoric in Parliamentary Debates	18/6	Gijs Schumacher (University of Amsterdam)	“Doing psycho-physiological research in political science”
26/3	Neil Fasching (University of Amsterdam)	“Viral Violence: The Effects of Police Violence Framing, Group Identity, and Militarization on Public Outrage and Perception of Police	25/6	Karlijn Hendriks (VU Amsterdam)	“Mirror neuron activity in response to in- vs out-party politicians: an EEG pilot study”
			25/6	Xinyao Zhang (University of Amsterdam)	“Are we averse to ambitious leaders? ERP correlates in Ultimatum Game”
			25/6	Babke Weenk and Christian Ramelow (University of Amsterdam)	“Drawing distorted conclusions: EEG correlates of the ideological mind”

2020 - Semester 2

Date	Speaker	Topic	Date	Speaker	Topic
4/9	Julian Aichholzer (University of Vienna)	“Preferences for personality traits in politicians”	6/11	Jennifer Jerit (Darthmouth College)	“When do people correct misinformation”
11/9	Steven W. Webster (Indiana University)	“American Rage: How Anger Shapes Our Politics”	13/11	Ashley Jardina (Duke University)	“White Identity Politics”
18/9	Catherine E. de Vries (Bocconi University)	“Intergenerational Conflict and COVID-19”	20/11	Ursula Hess (Humboldt University)	“Facial mimicry in social contexts”
25/9	Haylee Kelsall (University of Amsterdam)	“Political information diversity and affective (de)polarisation”	27/11	Tobias Rohrbach (University of Fribourg / University of Amsterdam)	“Meta-analysis of gender differences in mediated candidate evaluations: Preliminary results”
25/9	Christian Pipal (University of Amsterdam)	“Pre-Analysis Plan: Emotional Appeals in Parliamentary Debates”	27/11	Lala Muradova Huseynova (KU Leuven)	“COVID-19 Disinformation and Minipublics: Experimental Evidence from the US and Ireland”
2/10	Lene Aarøe (Aarhus University)	“Evolutionary Psychology and Citizens’ Dissemination of Political News in Interpersonal Communication”	27/11	Dante Della Gatta (University of Amsterdam)	“Same Anger, Different Perception? Gender Bias in Emotion Perception of Male and Female Politicians”
9/10	Manos Tsakiris (Royal Holloway, University of London)	“Experimenting with the Visceral Dimension of Visual Politics”	4/12	Mariken van der Velden (VU Amsterdam)	“Give a Little, Take a Little”: Political Parties’ Reputational Cost of Compromises.”
16/10	Robert Klemmensen (University of Southern Denmark)	“Elites – Are they different?”	11/12	Patrick Stewart (University of Arkansas)	“Facing Farage: Using the Componential Processing Model of emotion to understand U.K. & U.S. citizen appraisal of immigration arguments”
30/10	Isabella Rebasso (University of Amsterdam)	“Testing the (in)congruence of physiological and self-reported responses to emotion frames. (Pre-Analysis Plan)”	24/12	Gijs Schumacher and Bert Bakker (University of Amsterdam)	“End of Year Special”
30/10	Neil Fasching (University of Amsterdam)	“Childhood personality and ideology: evidence from 2 conceptual replications in the UK”

2020 - Semester 1

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”

2019 - Semester 2

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”

2019 - Semester 1

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

17.03.2023:
Barbara Vis

In this session of the Hot Politics Lab, Barbara Vis (University of Utrecht) gave a talk titled “How Do Politicians Respond to Different Types of Uncertain Phenomena? Introducing a Conceptual Map”. 

17.02.2023:
Emma Turkenburg & Daniel Thiele

In this session of the Hot Politics Lab,Emma Turkenburg  (University of Leuven) gave a talk titled “Affective Responses to Uncivil Politicians” and Daniel Thiele (University of Vienna) gave a talk titled “populist user comments, the pandemic, and online publics. Insights from a computational text analysis in seven European countries“.

17.02.2023:
Gijs Schumacher

In this session of the Hot Politics Lab, Gijs Schumacher (University of Amsterdam) gave a talk titled “Affective Representation”. 

10.02.2023:
Patrick Fournier

In this session of the Hot Politics Lab, Patrick Fournier (University of Montreal) gave a talk titled “Do Emotions Drive the Link Between Winning and Satisfaction with Democracy? Leveraging the Lion King, the Super Bowl, and the World Cup”.

03.02.2023:
Delaney Peterson and Carmen van Alebeek

In this graduate Friday session of the Hot Politics Lab, research master student Delaney Peterson (University of Amsterdam) gave a talk titled “The moderating role of self-esteem on the relationship between personality and support for the populist radical right: A view from the Netherlands”. Afterwards research master student Carmen van Alebeek (University of Amsterdam) gave a presentation titled “Integrating Grievance-Based and Psychological Models of Populist Radical Right Support: Evidence From a German Panel Study”.

25.11.2022:
Tobias Rohrbach and Maaike Homan

In this graduate Friday session of the Hot Politics Lab, PhD candidate Tobias Rohrbach (Université de Fribourg) gave a talk titled “Disentangling Stereotype Incongruity in Candidate Evaluation”. Afterwards PhD candidate Maaike Homan (University of Amsterdam) gave a talk titled “Same Anger, Different Perception? Gender Bias in Emotion Perception of Politicians”.

18.11.2022:
Frank Gonzalez

In this session of the Hot Politics Lab, Frank Gonzalez (University of Arizona) gave a talk titled “Inhibition or Ideology? The Neural Mechanisms of Racial Priming in Politics”. 

11.11.2022:
Jochem Tolsma

In this session of the Hot Politics Lab, Jochem Tolsma (Radboud University) gave a talk titled “Political Polarisation and Residential Segregation”. 

04.11.2022:
Flavio Azevedo

In this session of the Hot Politics Lab, Flavio Azevedo (University of Cambridge) gave a talk titled “Measuring Ideology: Current practices, its consequences, and recommendations”.  

14.10.2022:
Tereza Capelos

In this session of the Hot Politics Lab, Tereza Capelos (University of Birmingham) gave a talk titled “Anger Issues: A Political Psychology Analysis of Ressentiment and Grievance Politics”. 

07.10.2022:
Dominique Wirz

In this session of the Hot Politics Lab, Dominique Wirz (Université de Fribourg) gave a talk titled “A hostile media effect? Subjective and objective exposure to hate speech in Switzerland”.

24.06.2022:
Luca Versteegen

In this Graduate Friday session of the Hot Politics Lab, PhD candidate Luca Versteegen (Gothenburg University) gave a talk titled “Personality and Political Information Consumption: The Mediating Role of News Use Motives”.

03.06.2022:
Arvid Kappas

In this session of the Hot Politics Lab, Arvid Kappas (Jacobs University Bremen) will give a talk titled “Oh Emotion You Wondrous Thing!“.

20.05.2022:
Danna Young

In this session of the Hot Politics Lab, Danna Young (University of Delaware) gave a talk titled “Identity distillation and the cultivation of demand for misinformation in the U.S”.

01.04.2022:
Rune Slothuus

In this session of the Hot Politics Lab, Rune Slothuus (Aarhus University) gave a talk titled “What’s in a Cue? How Citizens Use Party Cues to Learn About Policy”.

11.03.2022:
Yphtach Lelkes

In this session of the Hot Politics Lab, Yphtach Lelkes (Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania) gave a talk titled “Is It Really That Easy? Reconsidering the Easy-Hard Distinction in American Politics”.

04.03.2022:
Matthijs Rooduijn

In this session of the Hot Politics Lab, Matthijs Rooduijn (University of Amsterdam) gave a talk titled “Creating empathy during a theater play: experimenting with 7000 people”.

18.02.2022:
Chiara Vialli and Maaike Homan

In this Graduate Friday session of the Hot Politics Lab, PhD candidate Chiara Vialli (University of Bern) gave a talk titled “Personality and Political Information Consumption: The Mediating Role of News Use Motives”. Afterwards PhD candidate Maaike Homan (University of Amsterdam) gave a talk titled “Consequences of Emotional Politicians: A Conjoint Experiment”.

11.02.2022:
Amelie Godefroidt

In this session of the Hot Politics Lab, Amelie Godefroidt (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) gave a talk titled “How terrorism is changing us”.

04.02.2022:
Christel van Eck

In this session of the Hot Politics Lab, Christel van Eck (University of Amsterdam) gave a talk titled “Conceptualizing ‘Online Climate Change Polarization”.

28.01.2022:
Israel Waismel-Manor

In this session of the Hot Politics Lab, Israel Waismel-Manor (University of Haifa) gave a talk titled “From corruption to cyberspace: Expanding what we study and how we study it.”

21.01.2022:
Nathalie Giger

In this session of the Hot Politics Lab, Nathalie Giger (University of Geneva) gave a talk titled “Perceptions of inequality and their links to ideology among political elites and citizens”. 

14.01.2022:
Marte Otten

In this session of the Hot Politics Lab, Marte Otten (University of Amsterdam) gave a talk titled “How (political) convictions can change basic cognition: A predictive processing approach”.

10.12.2021:
Frederic Hopp

In this session of the Hot Politics Lab, Frederic Hopp (University of Amsterdam) gave a talk titled “Morality in Media, Society, and the Brain”.

3.12.2021:
Leonie Huddy

In this session of the Hot Politics Lab, Leonie Huddy (Stony Brook University) gave a talk titled “Nationalism and Party Politics”.

26.11.2021:
Matthijs Gillissen and Christian Pipal

In this graduate Friday session of the Online Hot Politics Lab, Matthijs Gillissen (Radboud University) gave a talk titled “Empathic Concern and Party Lines: Empathy within a Multiparty System”. Afterwards PhD candidate Christian Pipal (University of Amsterdam) gave a talk titled “Do politicians change their rhetoric over time?”.

19.11.2021:
Yasin Koc and Jamie Settle

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”.

12.11.2021:
Hannah Nam

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”.

5.11.2021:
Giselinde Kuipers

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”.

29.10.2021:
Alan Sanfey

In this session of the Hot Politics Lab, Alan Sanfey (Radboud University) gave a talk titled “Social motivations in choice: insights from decision neuroscience”.

22.10.2021:
Isabella Rebasso and Lennart Schürmann

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”.

15.10.2021:
Christopher Lucas

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”.

8.10.2021
Hugo Mercier:

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”.

1.10.2021
Henk van der Kolk

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?”.

24.9.2021
Dani Komáromy:

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?”.

17.09.2021:
Pere-Lluís Huguet Cabot & David Abadi

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”.

25.06.2021:
Karlijn Hendriks, Xinyao Zhang, Babke Weenk and Christian Ramelow

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)

18.06.2021:
Gijs Schumacher

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”.

11.06.2021:
Bert Bakker

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”.

04.06.2021:
Loes Aaldering

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”.

28.05.2021:
Robin Tschötschel

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”.

21.05.2021:
Cameron Brick

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“

30.04.2021:
Tobias Widman and Maaike Homan

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”.

23.04.2021: Liz Connors

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.“

16.04.2021:
Theresa Kuhn

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.”

09.04.2021:
Diamantis Petropoulos-Petalas

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”.

27.03.2021:
Christian Pipal and Neil Fasching

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”.

19.03.2021:
Lou Safra

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?”.

12.03.2021:
Ben Ruisch

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”.  

05.03.2021:
Gerben van Kleef

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”.

19.02.2021:
Michael Bruter

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”.

12.02.2021:
Yanna Krupnikov

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”.  

05.02.2021:
Constantine Boussalis

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”.

29.01.2021:
Linn Andrea Vik and Tristan Klingelhöfer

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”.

22.01.2021:
Leor Zmigrod

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”.

15.01.2021:
Ursula Daxecker

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)

24.12.2020:
End of Year special -
Gijs Schumacher and Bert Bakker

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!

18.12.2020:
Maaike Homan and Can Zengin

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”.

11.12.2020:
Patrick Stewart

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”.

4.12.2020:
Mariken van der Velden

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.

27.11.2020: Tobias Rohrbach, Lala Muradova Huseynova and Dante Della Gatta

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”

20.11.2020:
Ursula Hess

In this session of the Online Hot Politics Lab, Ursula Hess (Humboldt University Berlin) gave a talk titled “Facial mimicry in social contexts”.

13.11.2020:
Ashley Jardina

In this session of the Online Hot Politics Lab, Ashley Jardina (Duke University) gave a talk titled “White identity politics”. 

6.11.2020:
Jennifer Jerit

In this session of the Online Hot Politics Lab, Jennifer Jerit (Darthmouth College) gave a talk titled “When do people correct misinformation”.

30.10.2020:
Isabella Rebasso and Neil Fasching

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”.

16.10.2020:
Robert Klemmensen

In this session of the Online Hot Politics Lab, Robert Klemmensen(University of Southern Denmark) gave a talk titled “Elites – Are they different?”.

09.10.2020:
Manos Tsakiris

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”.

2.10.2020:
Lene Aarøe

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”.

25.9.2020:
Haylee Kelsall and Christian Pipal

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”.

18.9.2020:
Catherine E. de Vries

In this session of the Online Hot Politics Lab, Catherine E. de Vries (Bocconi University) gave a talk titled “Intergenerational Conflict and COVID-19”.

11.9.2020:
Steven W. Webster

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.

4.9.2020:
Julian Aichholzer

In this session of the Online Hot Politics Lab, Julian Aichholzer (University of Vienna) presented his work on preferences for personality traits in politicians.

26.6.2020:
Tobias Rohrbach and Isabella Rebasso

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”.

19.6.2020:
Chris Federico

In this session of the Online Hot Politics Lab, Chris Federico (U Minnesota) gave a talk titled “Collective Narcissism as a Basis for Nationalism”.

12.6.2020:
Ryan Boyd

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.

5.6.2020:
Agneta Fischer

In this session of the Online Hot Politics Lab,  Agneta Fischer (UvA Social Psychology) gave a talk on “Fear and Populism”.  

29.5.2020:
Maaike Homan and Christian Pipal

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.

15.5.2020:
Gordon Pennycook

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.

1.5.2020:
Melissa Baker and Ming Boyer

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. 

24.4.2020:
Chris Karpowitz and Josh Gubler

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.

17.4.2020:
Shana Gadarian

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… . 

10.4.2020:
Anne Marthe van der Bles

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.

3.4.2020:
Julia van Weert

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.

27.3.2020:
Stuart Soroka

In our second online meeting  Stuart Soroka (University of Michigan) discussed the persuasiveness of negative news and the potential for positive news.

20.3.2020:
Michael Bang Petersen

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.”!