Hotpoliticslab November 2022

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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 02/12
by Maaike Homan 28 Nov '22

28 Nov '22

Hi everyone, This Friday (02/12) from 15:00 - 16:00 there will be another Hot Politics Lab meeting. In this session of the Hot Politics Lab, Christin Scholz (University of Amsterdam) will give a talk titled "Neural Mechanisms of Polarization and Information Spread". 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). Furthermore, next Friday (09/12) from 13:30 - 16:30 is the Dutch Political Psychology Meeting. Everyone is welcome to join in person at the University of Amsterdam (Roeterseiland campus). See the program and all the details below. If you plan to attend, please let us know by filling in the following form: https://uva.fra1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8i9AIGV4q6ZO4BM<https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fuva.fra1.…> Dutch Political Psychology Meeting Program: 13:30-14:15 Borja Martinovic (University of Utrecht, Department of Interdisciplinary Social Science): "Collective psychological ownership as a new angle for understanding intergroup relations" 14:15-14:30 Coffee break 14:30-15:15 Linet Durmuşoğlu (University of Amsterdam, Department of Political Science). "Intergenerational Transmission and Political Socialization in the Dutch Multiparty Setting" 15:15-15:30 Coffee break 15:30-16:15 Ming Boyer (University of Vienna, Department of Government) "Citizen meanings of voting: What we (don't) know about voting and why it matters" 16:15-16:30 Announcements + off to CREA café for drinks! Location: We will host the event at the University of Amsterdam, in room C10.20. This room is in the C building at the Roeterseiland campus. Here<https://www.uva.nl/binaries/content/assets/faculteiten/faculteit-der-maatsc…> is a map with all the buildings of the campus. If you have any trouble finding the room you can email m.d.homan(a)uva.nl<mailto:m.d.homan@uva.nl>. Have a great rest of the week and hope to see you 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 25/11
by Maaike Homan 22 Nov '22

22 Nov '22

Hi everyone, This Friday (25/11) from 15:00 - 16:00 it is Graduate Friday in the Hot Politics Lab. In this session, PhD candidate Tobias Rohrbach (Université de Fribourg) will give a talk titled "Disentangling Stereotype Incongruity in Candidate Evaluation", see the abstract below. Afterwards PhD candidate Maaike Homan (University of Amsterdam) will give a talk titled "Same Anger, Different Perception? Gender Bias in Emotion Perception of Politicians". 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 "Disentangling Stereotype Incongruity in Candidate Evaluation": Academia and political campaigners conventionally cast gender stereotypes as an electoral liability for women in politics. Incongruent stereotype expectations place women in a double-bind where they either fail the social demands of political leadership or they breach gender norms related to femininity-with potential backlash due to stereotype violation in both cases. Two decades of research offer conflicting conclusions regarding the role of stereotype incongruity in candidate evaluations and its electoral consequences for women in politics. This paper theoretically revisits and empirically tests core assumptions of stereotype incongruity as a driver of gender biases in political communication. In a series of five online survey experiments, this study examines incongruity in trait evaluation (studies 1 and 2), trait inferences (studies 3 and 4), and trait perceptions (study 5). The results show that voters reward (or punish) candidates of both gender groups similarly for displaying stereotypically desirable (or undesirable) traits. Voters infer and perceive incongruity in candidate traits for women and men politicians only in few but notable cases. The findings have important implications for the understanding of persistent biases that women face in electoral politics. You can check out the remaining program of this semester on our website<https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hotpol…>. You can also watch any of the previous online hot politics lab meetings via the labs 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 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 18/11
by Maaike Homan 16 Nov '22

16 Nov '22

Hi everyone, This Friday (18/11) from 15:00 – 16:00 there will be another Hot Politics Lab meeting. In this session of the Hot Politics Lab, Frank Gonzalez (University of Arizona) will give a talk titled “Inhibition or Ideology? The Neural Mechanisms of Racial Priming in Politics”. 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). You can check out the remaining program of this semester on our website<https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hotpol…>. You can also watch any of the previous online hot politics lab meetings via the labs 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 Friday! Best, Maaike Maaike Homan PhD Candidate at the Political Science Department Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research University of Amsterdam Room B10.01 [image001.png]

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Book talk, polarization & democratic transitions
by Maaike Homan 10 Nov '22

10 Nov '22

Dear all, There is a book launch on the 21st of November that might be of interest to some of you. See the details below. 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] ** Please join us for this month's ACCS Book Talk: After Repression: How Polarization Derails Democratic Transition <https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpress.pri…> Elizabeth Nugent (WZB, Princeton University) Drawing on original interviews and a wealth of new historical data, Elizabeth Nugent documents polarization among the opposition in Tunisia and Egypt prior to the Arab Spring, tracing how different kinds of repression influenced the bonds between opposition groups. She demonstrates how widespread repression created shared political identities and decreased polarization-such as in Tunisia-while targeted repression like that carried out against the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt led opposition groups to build distinct identities that increased polarization among them. This helps explain why elites in Tunisia were able to compromise, cooperate, and continue on the path to democratic consolidation while deeply polarized elites in Egypt contributed to the rapid reentrenchment of authoritarianism. 21 November 2022 15:30-17:00 REC A2.04 Followed by a reception at CREA Dr. Nugent would also be happy to meet with PhDs for coffee before her talk; please contact abbey.steele(a)uva.nl<mailto:abbey.steele@uva.nl> if you would like to join. [cid:39149AC1-9C11-4BA5-8876-925054AAC19E] Abbey Steele, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Political Science University of Amsterdam abbey.steele(a)uva.nl<mailto:abbey.steele@uva.nl> Book: Democracy and Displacement in Colombia's Civil War<https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazo…>, Cornell University Press 2017

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Hot Politics Lab 11/11
by Maaike Homan 07 Nov '22

07 Nov '22

Hi everyone, This Friday (11/11) from 15:00 - 16:00 there will be another Hot Politics Lab meeting. In this session of the Hot Politics Lab, Jochem Tolsma (Radboud University) will give a talk titled "Political Polarisation and Residential Segregation". 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). You can check out the remaining program of this semester on our website<https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hotpol…>. You can also watch any of the previous online hot politics lab meetings via the labs 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 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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