Hotpoliticslab December 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 -> end of the year message & 12(!) PhD students in our new Marie Curie Training Network
by Bert Bakker 21 Dec '22

21 Dec '22

Dear Hot Politics Lab followers, First of all, we would like to thank you for your interests in our Lab in the past year. Christmas is approach and we are taking a break. We will return with a new series of talks on January 27 when Bernd Schlipphak (University of Münster) kicks the new year off. In the mean-time feel free to check out the talks you might have missed in the past period: http://www.hotpolitics.eu/lab-meetings-archive/ Moreover, we would like to raise awareness of a new Hot Politics Lab project that we (Gijs and Bert) are running with colleagues at four other universities. We are looking for a total of 12 PhD students in this Marie Curie Training Network. Three will be embedded directly with us in the Hot Politics Lab. Below you can find more information and we would really appreciate it if you would be willing to share this vacancy to any talented student(s) who might be a good candidate for one of our PhD positions. The deadline for applications is January 30. For now we wish you a well-deserved Christmas break. All the best, on behalf of the Hot Politics Lab, Gijs Schumacher & Bert Bakker The Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Politics of Adolescence and Democracy' (IP-PAD) is recruiting 12 fully funded PhD students We represent a new Marie Curie Doctoral Network that brings together political science and communication, psychology and neuroscience to study the development of the political self in adolescence. 'Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Politics of Adolescence and Democracy' (IP-PAD, https://www.ippad.eu/<https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ippad…> ) is a partnership between the University of Amsterdam (Netherlands), University of Vienna (Austria), Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences (Greece), Jagiellonian University (Poland) and Royal Holloway, University of London (UK). We have twelve PhD studentships across these five countries available to begin between September and October 2023. We just opened now the call for applications (https://vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/12-PhD-Positions-Politics-of-Adolescence-a… ) As we are an interdisciplinary network, we are looking for MSc/MA students who want to do a PhD and have a background in the fields of Psychology, Political Science, Communication Science, Neuroscience, Sociology and related disciplines with an interest in Political Psychology, Cognitive Science, Survey Methodology, Experimental Psychology, Social Psychology, Cognitive or Developmental Psychology and Neuroscience. Interested applicants can find more information here : https://www.ippad.eu/phd<https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ippad…> where we describe who we are, what we are looking for, what we offer and how to apply! And interested students can apply here: https://vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/12-PhD-Positions-Politics-of-Adolescence-a… We would be grateful if you could inform your students of these opportunities. Feel free to share this add widely. Thank you for your attention, On behalf of IP-PAD , Manos Tsakiris & Bert Bakker

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Political Psychology Meeting Friday 09/12
by Maaike Homan 07 Dec '22

07 Dec '22

Hi everyone, Here a small reminder that our next Dutch Political Psychology Meeting will take place this Friday December 9th from 13:30 - 16:30. Everyone is welcome to join in person at the University of Amsterdam (Roeterseiland campus). See the program and all the details below. Note that the meeting is only in person and cannot be attended online. Registration: In case you are planning on attending and if you haven't done yet already, please fill in this form: https://uva.fra1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8i9AIGV4q6ZO4BM<https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fuva.fra1.…> 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>. 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! Looking forward to seeing you Friday! Best, Maaike Homan Bert Bakker Jojanneke van der Toorn Ruthie Pliskin 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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