Hotpoliticslab October 2021

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Reddit dataset RoBERTa (populism and emotions) computational linguistics
by David Abadi 05 Jun '24

05 Jun '24

Dear colleagues, Herewith, I’d like to share some news with researchers interested in populism, emotions, framing, media bias and social identity. Last year, Agneta Fischer and I collaborated with colleagues from Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) at UvA (Pere-Lluís Huguet-Cabot, Verna Dankers, Ekaterina Shutova), and recently we published two papers in the field of computational linguistics (as listed below). For our latest paper, we developed a novel deep learning NLP model based on RoBERTa (Liu, 2019) to detect populist attitudes, media bias, emotions and social identity. In the near future, our dataset (consisting of 6861 annotated Reddit comments) will be made publicly available through GitHub for the research community to be used. Huguet Cabot, P. L. H., Abadi, D., Fischer, A., & Shutova, E. (2021, January). Us vs. Them: A Dataset of Populist Attitudes, News Bias and Emotions. arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.11956. https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.11956 Huguet Cabot, P. L., Dankers, V., Abadi, D., Fischer, A., & Shutova, E. (2020, November). The Pragmatics behind Politics: Modelling Metaphor, Framing and Emotion in Political Discourse. In Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: Findings (pp. 4479-4488). http://dx.doi.org/10.18653/v1/2020.findings-emnlp.402 Feel free to contact me with any questions. David (also on behalf of my co-authors) David Abadi (Ph.D.) Postdoctoral Researcher Social Psychology Program, University of Amsterdam Amsterdam Interdisciplinary Centre for Emotion (AICE)<https://aice.uva.nl/members/members.html#anker-david-abadi> DEMOS - Democratic Efficacy and the Varieties of Populism in Europe (H2020-EU.3.6.1.1., H2020-EU.3.6.1.2.)<https://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/219150/factsheet/en> Google Scholar<https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=_UlNbPAAAAAJ&view_op=list_w…>

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Hot Politics Lab 29/10
by Maaike Homan 25 Oct '21

25 Oct '21

Hi everyone, This Friday (October 29th) from 15:00 - 16:00 there will be another exciting Hot Politics Lab meeting. During this lab meeting, Alan Sanfey (Radboud University) will give a talk titled "Social motivations in choice: insights from decision neuroscience". See below the abstract. 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.…> or join the live session in the Common Room (REC-B9.22) at 3pm (CET). Abstract: Our lives consist of a constant stream of decisions and choices, from the mundane to the highly consequential. The standard approach to experimentally examining decision-making has been to examine fixed choices with clearly defined probabilities and outcomes, however it is an open question as to whether decision models describing these situations can be extended to choices that are made in more complex, social, contexts. This class of social decision-making offers a useful approach to examine other types of decisions, which may in fact better approximate many of our real-life choices. Here, we focus on several experiments where we use novel variants of decision tasks in conjunction with functional neuroimaging and computational modelling to observe how players decide in real, complex, contexts. In particular, these scenarios reveal motivations other than economic gain that appear to guide our decisions in a systematic fashion. I will also discuss how we can use these brain insights to build better models of human social norms, incorporating both psychological and neurobiological constructs. 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 Maaike Homan PhD Candidate at the Political Science Department Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research University of Amsterdam Room B10.01 [logo hot politics]

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Hot Politics Lab 22/10
by Maaike Homan 18 Oct '21

18 Oct '21

Hi everyone, This Friday (October 22nd) from 15:00 - 16:00 it will be "Graduate Friday" at the Hot Politics Lab. During this lab meeting, PhD candidate Isabella Rebasso (University of Amsterdam) will give a talk titled "Are political sophisticates really more easily swayed by emotional appeals? - Pre-Analysis Plan". Second, PhD candidate Lennart Schürmann (University of Cologne) will give a talk titled "Do you need to be violent to be heard? Responsiveness and emotional reactions of Western European parties to political protests". Both talks 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.…> or join the live session in the Common Room (REC-B9.22) 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 [logo hot politics]

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Hot Politics Lab 15/10
by Maaike Homan 12 Oct '21

12 Oct '21

Hi everyone, This Friday (October 15th) from 15:00 - 16:00 there will be another hybrid Hot Politics Lab meeting. In this session, Christopher Lucas (Washington University in St. Louis) will give a talk titled "More than Words: How Political Rhetoric Shapes Voters' Affect and Evaluation". 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.…> at 3pm (CET). Christopher Lucas is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Washington University in St. Louis. He studies methodology, political communication, and the media. His research is published in the American Political Science Review and the American Journal of Political Science, among other venues. Ongoing work, supported by the National Science Foundation, develops and applies computational models for the statistical analysis of speech audio. 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 [logo hot politics]

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Hot Politics Lab 8/10
by Maaike Homan 04 Oct '21

04 Oct '21

Hi everyone, This Friday (October 8th) from 15:00 - 16:00 there will be another exciting talk at the Hot Politics Lab meeting. In this session, Hugo Mercier (CNRS, Institute Jean Nicod, Paris) will give a talk titled "Not born Yesterday: Why humans are less gullible than we think". Below the abstract. 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.…> at 3pm (CET). Abstract: It is often thought that humans are gullible, easily manipulated by demagogues, advertisers, and politicians. I will argue that the opposite is true: humans are equipped with a set of psychological mechanisms that allow them to properly evaluate communicated information, and to reject information that is false or harmful. I will rely on experimental psychology data, as well as studies showing the failures of mass persuasion, from Nazi propaganda to American presidential campaigns. I will also offer explanations for the success of some misconceptions-from pizzagate to flat earth-that are not based on credulity. 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 [logo hot politics]

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