Hi everyone,
This Friday (January 29) from 15:00 till 16:00 it is "Graduate Friday" again. In this session of the Online Hot Politics Lab, PhD candidate Tristan Klingelhofer (HU Berlin) will give a talk titled "Parties' views of the voters and campaign strategy: Comparing German, Austrian, and Italian parties with respect to rationality and emotion". See attached the abstract of his talk. Afterwards PhD candidate Linn Andrea Vik (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) will give a talk titled "Uncovering the Personality of the Unelected".
The talks will be followed by a Q&A, and everybody is welcome to join via Zoom: https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/96492065253 at 3pm (CET).
If you missed any of the previous online hot politics lab meetings, or just want to watch them again, you can find all video and audio recordings of our last online meetings in our Online Hot Politics Lab Meetings archive here: http://www.hotpolitics.eu/lab-meetings-archive/<https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hotpol…>.
Have a great rest of the week and hope to see you all Friday!
Best,
Maaike Homan
PhD Candidate at the Political Science Department
Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research
University of Amsterdam
Room B10.01
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Hi everyone,
This Friday (January 22) from 15:00 till 16:00 we will have another exciting lab meeting. In this session of the Online Hot Politics Lab, Leor Zmigrod (University of Cambridge) will give a talk titled "A Cognitive Science of the Ideological Mind". The talk will be followed by a Q&A, and everybody is welcome to join via Zoom with this link: https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/96492065253<https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fuva-live.…> at 3pm (CET). Below a bio and abstract of Leor's talk.
TITLE: A Cognitive Science of the Ideological Mind
ABSTRACT: Since the birth of modern civilisation, humans have been creating stories that capture their theories about how the world works and how they should act within this complex world. These narratives both describe and prescribe human action, and exist in a kaleidoscope of forms - from religious doctrines to authoritarian nationalism to political manifestos. Why do these explosive ideologies seduce and captivate the human brain? New research illustrates that our ideologies may be tightly interconnected with our perceptual and cognitive architecture. Data-driven approaches highlight that ideological beliefs are amenable to careful cognitive and computational analysis, revealing the cocktail of cognitive traits that can make a mind more (or less) susceptible to ideological dogmatism.
BIO: Dr Leor Zmigrod is a Junior Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge. Her research combines methods from experimental psychology, cognitive science, and neuroscience to investigate the psychology of ideological adherence and group identity formation. In particular, she is interested in investigating cognitive characteristics that might act as vulnerability factors for radicalization and ideologically-motivated behaviour.
If you missed any of the previous online hot politics lab meetings, you can find all video and audio recordings of our last online meetings in our Online Hot Politics Lab Meetings archive here: http://www.hotpolitics.eu/lab-meetings-archive/<https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hotpol…>.
Have a great rest of the week and looking forward to seeing many of you Friday!
Best,
Maaike Homan
PhD Candidate at the Political Science Department
Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research
University of Amsterdam
Room B10.01
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Hi everyone,
I hope you all have a good start of the week! This Friday (15/01) we will have the first Online Hot Politics Lab meeting of 2021. In this session Ursula Daxecker (University of Amsterdam) will present the project: "How Hostile Misinformation Shapes Beliefs and Attitudes: A Pre-Analysis Plan for a Survey Experiment in India" (co-authored by Hanne Fjelde, Uppsala University & Peace Research Institute Oslo). Below a short bio of Ursula.
Ursula Daxecker is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam. Her research focuses on elections and conflict. From 2020-2025, she is working on the project Elections, Violence, and Parties funded by the European Research Council. Her research has previously been funded by the Dutch Science Foundation (NWO), the European Commission's Marie Curie Actions, and the U.S. Department of Defense Minerva Research Initiative. She is the guest editor (with Kristine Höglund and Sarah Birch) of the 2020 Special Issue "Electoral Violence" in Journal of Peace Research.
The meeting will start at 15:00 (3 pm CET) until 16:00. The talk will be followed by a Q&A, and everybody is welcome to join via Zoom: https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/96492065253<https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fuva-live.…>.
Hope to see you all Friday!
Best,
Maaike Homan
PhD Candidate at the Political Science Department
Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research
University of Amsterdam
Room B10.01
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Hi everyone,
Hope you had a good Christmas break! Happy new year to you all! We unfortunately will not have a lab meeting this Friday, since Yphtach Lelkes is unable to join. However, in the meantime you can listen to our 'end-of-the-year best-of #Hotpoliticslab podcast' made by Gijs Schumacher and Bert Bakker, in which they discuss some of the great talks in our lab in 2020. You can listen to the podcast here<http://www.hotpolitics.eu/uncategorized/end-of-year-podcast/>.
Next week (15 January) from 15:00 - 16:00, Ursula Daxecker (University of Amsterdam) will give a talk (title TBA). The talk will be followed by a Q&A, and everybody is welcome to join via Zoom: https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/96492065253.
Have a great start of the new academic year and hope to see you next week!
Best,
Maaike Homan
PhD Candidate at the Political Science Department
Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research
University of Amsterdam
Room B10.01
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