Hotpoliticslab March 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 26/3
by Maaike Homan 22 Mar '21

22 Mar '21

Hi everyone, This Friday (March 26) is the last Friday of the month, which means it's Graduate Friday at the Online Hot Politics Lab! In this session Neil Fasching (University of Amsterdam) will talk about "Viral Violence: The Effects of Police Violence Framing, Group Identity, and Militarization on Public Outrage and Perception of Police". See the abstract of the project below. Afterwards, Christian Pipal (University of Amsterdam) will present "Emotional Rhetoric in Parliamentary Debates". The 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.…> at 3pm (CET). Abstract (Neil Fasching): As the recent protests and demonstrations in response to police brutality make clear, the framing of police conduct can have a profound impact on the behavior and attitudes of the public. However, the specific extent of this impact has yet to be investigated. Using a large experiment (N = 3,927) fielded in the United States, I investigate the degree to which the framing of police violence affects the public's outrage and perception of the police. Further, I extent this literature by building on intergroup conflict theory and by replicating recent work into the effect of police militarization (Mummolo, 2018). And finally, I test how police violence, group identity, and militarization interact in influencing the public's anger and outrage as well as attitudes towards the police. The results indicate that police violence has a large positive effect on moral outrage and a small negative effect on police perception. Group identity did influence the degree to which individuals were outraged, at least for one of the two issues, while no three-way interactions were found. Exploratory analyses show that moral outrage differed by political parties with Republicans being less outraged than Democrats. In all, the results highlight that while people have profound emotional responses to police violence - such as being angered and outraged - the framing of police violence seems to have a minimal effect on the public's perception of the police. 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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Online Hot Politics Lab 19/3
by Maaike Homan 15 Mar '21

15 Mar '21

Hi everyone, This Friday (March 19) from 15:00 - 16:00 it's time for another exciting lab meeting. In this session of the Online Hot Politics Lab, Lou Safra (Sciences Po Paris) will give a talk titled "What is the link between the parties' populism and MPs' looks and what does this tell us about political communication?". 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). 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 12/3
by Maaike Homan 08 Mar '21

08 Mar '21

Hi everyone, This Friday (March 12) from 15:00 - 16:00 we will have another lab meeting. In this session of the Online Hot Politics Lab, Ben Ruisch (Department of Psychology, University of Leiden) will give a talk titled "A Matter of Taste: Ideological Differences in Gustatory Sensitivity". The talk will be followed by a Q&A, and everbody 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). 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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Online Hot Politics Lab 5/3
by Maaike Homan 02 Mar '21

02 Mar '21

Hi everyone, This Friday (March 5) from 15:00 - 16:00 we will have another lab meeting. In this session of the Online Hot Politics Lab, Gerben van Kleef (Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam) will give a talk titled "Preferences for Risk Takers as Leaders". The talk will be followed by a Q&A, and everbody 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 [logo hot politics]

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