Hotpoliticslab May 2021

hotpoliticslab@list.uva.nl

1 participants
5 discussions

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…>

1 1

Hot Politics Lab 4/5 & Pol Psych Meeting 3/5
by Maaike Homan 31 May '21

31 May '21

Hi all, Hope you had a great weekend! This Friday (May 4) from 15:00 - 16:00 there will be another exciting lab meeting. In this session of the Online Hot Politics Lab, Loes Aaldering (VU Amsterdam) will give a talk titled "'Dark side of the Mood. Candidate Evaluation, Voter Perceptions, and the Driving Role of (Dark) Personality Traits". This is a project co-authored by Allesandro Nai, Frederico Ferreira da Silva, Diego Garzia and Katjana Gattermann. 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). Furthermore, this Thursday (May 3) from 15:00 - 16:30 the third online Dutch Political Psychology will take place via zoom. Everyone is welcome to join (no registration needed). See the program of the meeting and the details below. Have a great rest of the week! 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] Dear Political Psychology enthusiasts, Please join us for our third Online Dutch Political Psychology Meeting, which will take place on Thursday June 3rd from 15:00 - 16:30. Political psychology is a thriving discipline in the Netherlands and beyond. Despite the current circumstances, we want to give political psychology enthusiasts the opportunity to connect, share ideas and provide feedback on each other's work. We therefore organize this third Online Political Psychology meeting. In this meeting we will have two excellent speakers: Honorata Mazepus and Ben Ruisch. See the details and program of the meeting below. Details: Online meeting: This is another online meeting. Note that we stick to the online format for this meeting regardless of the exact nature of the corona measures on June 3rd. We do hope that we can meet you in person later this year. Zoom: https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/81521726247<https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fuva-live.…> Program: 15:00-15:30 Honorata Mazepus (Leiden University, Institute of Security and Global Affairs): "Keeping the powerful in check: from small communities to large states" 15:30-15:45 Break 15:45-16:15 Ben Ruisch (Leiden University, Department of Psychology). "How the (Perceived) Ideological Trajectory of Society Drives Support for Anti-Democratic Behavior" 16:15-16:30 Announcements 16:30-17:00 Online Drinks in Gather Town (see manual attached for those not familiar with Gather Town) Link: https://gather.town/i/DY1ZoaXG<https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgather.to…>. Password: PolPsych Hope to see you June 3rd! Best, Maaike Homan Bert Bakker Jojanneke van der Toorn Ruthie Pliskin

1 0

Online Hot Politics Lab 28/5
by Maaike Homan 25 May '21

25 May '21

Hi everyone, This Friday (May 28) from 15:00 - 16:00 it is "Graduate Friday" again in the Online Hot Politics Lab. In this lab meeting, PhD candidate Robin Tschötschel (University of Amsterdam) will give a talk titled "Controversies, Identity, and Emotions in Climate Change Communication". See below the abstract and bio. 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). Robin Tschötschel: "Controversies, Identity, and Emotions in Climate Change Communication" Abstract: Arguably a topic of heated debate across the globe, the public conversation about climate change differs remarkably between the United States and Germany - media cover different controversies and in how they report on the actors involved. After a (very) brief summary of these pas findings from my PhD project, I will zoom in on a recent survey experiment in Germany (N=1172), testing the effects of 'consensus messages' informing people about the de-facto scientific consensus on climate change. While the experiment shows good evidence against practically relevant effects, other findings about the psychological determinants of intended behaviour change and policy support are replicated in the German context. Lastly, I will discuss some potential explanations for these findings and their implications. Bio: Robin Tschötschel is PhD candidate at the Amsterdam School of Communication Research, focusing on the political dimensions of climate change communication. Drawing theoretical conclusions from the empirical work conducted over the past years, he currently gives it the working title "Climate change communication in the midst of a political Gestaltshift". He holds a MSc in Social Science Research (University of Amsterdam) and a bachelor's degree in Economics (University of Vienna). 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! Maaike Homan PhD Candidate at the Political Science Department Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research University of Amsterdam Room B10.01 [logo hot politics]

1 0

Interesting talk
by Maaike Homan 18 May '21

18 May '21

Hi everyone, See below an invitation of a talk by Kai Ruggeri organized by Cameron Brick, that might be of interest to some of you: The Amsterdam Behavioral Insights Lab in the UvA Social Psychology group is welcoming an exciting outside speaker this Thursday at 3:30pm. I met Dr Ruggeri at Cambridge, where he was an assistant professor and doing all sorts of ambitious multi-site studies relating to public policy. He's now at Columbia. It's taken some months to convince him to give us a talk, and schedule it, and we finally nailed it down. This particular data required him getting various permissions from the partners to share, and I think it will be a treat. Hope you can join if this is of interest. Best wishes, Cameron Thurs 20 May at 3:30pm uva-live.zoom.us/my/brickc<http://uva-live.zoom.us/my/brickc> Unstandard deviation: The untapped value of positive deviance for reducing inequalities Kai Ruggeri, Assistant Professor, Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health, Department of Health Policy and Management Behavioral science is increasingly used in public policy to understand and address various manifestations of inequalities. Yet evidence from effective population-level interventions is limited. One framework, known as positive deviance, emphasizes individuals from disadvantaged circumstances who have significantly better outcomes than are typical for their group. Studying their behaviors and outcomes helps to understand what might explain their overall success. It can also help to incorporate those insights in such a way that would facilitate others from these circumstances to experience positive outcomes. Because positive deviance has been markedly understudied, we present a framework for doing so specifically within behavioral science for public policies aimed at reducing inequalities. Using examples from real-world and experimental insights on choices and outcomes of positive deviants, we encourage further study of their choices and trajectories over time to produce valuable insights. We propose that leveraging those findings would inform public policy by introducing interventions that are more ecologically sound and population relevant, and consequently have a better chance at benefiting those who start off under adverse circumstances. 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]

1 0

Hot Politics Lab 21/5
by Maaike Homan 18 May '21

18 May '21

Hi everyone, After a small break, we are back again with another lab meeting this Friday (May 21) from 15:00 - 16:00. In this session of the Online Hot Politics Lab, Cameron Brick (University of Amsterdam) will give a talk titled " Four Europes: Climate change beliefs and attitudes predict behavior and policy preferences using a latent class analysis on 23 countries." 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]

1 0

2024

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

Hotpoliticslab May 2021