Hotpoliticslab December 2023

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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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[HotPoliticsLab] upcoming lab meeting
by Céline Laffineur 11 Dec '23

11 Dec '23

Dear Hot Politics Lab followers, We end the year of 2023 with a talk by Pascal Boyer (Washington University in St. Louis) this Friday (December 15th) from 15:00 – 16:00. The talk will be titled "Political Psychology and Human Nature: A Fragmented Description ". The talk will be followed by a Q&A, and everybody is welcome to join in the Common Room (REC-B9.22) or online. Those who want to join online can use this link<https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_N2UyYWI0NmItOTQ2OC00…>. In the meantime, you can watch any of the previous Hot Politics Lab meetings via the youtube<https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCg8cj8FXhcj9sSCwLEme6ZQ> channel. Hope to see many of you this Friday! Kind regards, Céline Laffineur PhD Candidate Amsterdam School of Communication Research (University of Amsterdam) IP-PAD MSCA Doctoral Network member politics & adolescence | ippad<https://www.ippad.eu/> [logo hot politics]

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invitation: Hot Politics Lab ANTHROPOL workshop, Friday 15 December 2023
by Honorata Mazepus 06 Dec '23

06 Dec '23

Dear Hot Politics Lab friends, I am very happy to invite you to a workshop organized as part of my NWO XS project called ‘ANTHROPOL: What do anthropological records tell us about democratic checks and balances? A pilot study of hunter-gatherer politics’. It is embedded within the Hot Politics Lab and will take place on Friday, 15 December 10:00-16:00 in the REC Common Room B9.22. Please let me know by the end of the week if you would like to join the workshop by emailing h.mazepus(a)uva.nl<mailto:h.mazepus@uva.nl> (we will order lunch). This interdisciplinary workshop will focus on the discussion of the early results of the project based on the coding of ethnographic records of hunter-gatherer societies. Guests with expertise in different disciplines will join us to reflect on several main themes: - Can anthropological records help us study the evolved psychologies? - What are anthropological records good for? What would be the best next steps to build on this type of analyses of hunter gatherers? - How to test hypotheses about the human political mind in contemporary political information environment? - What is missing in current explanations of democratic/authoritarian preferences of citizens and explanations of democratic backsliding? - How could we take the research agenda studying human minds and preferences for empowering and constraining political authorities further? The schedule for the workshop: 10:00-10:30 Walk in, coffee/tea 10:30-12:00 Session 1 * Introduction of the project and early results (project team: Honorata Mazepus, Natália Kubalová, and Henriett Pálházy) * Kristen Syme (Leiden University) * Pascal Boyer (Washington University in St. Louis) 12:00-13:00 Lunch 13:00-14:30 Session 2 * Alexander Bor (Central European University) * Magnus Feldmann (University of Bristol) * Closing discussion 14:30-15:00 Coffee break 15:00-16:00 Hot Politics Lab talk by Pascal Boyer (cognitive anthropologist and evolutionary psychologist, the author of Minds Make Societies and Religion Explained; see http://www.pascalboyer.net/) All the best, Honorata --- Dr. Honorata Mazepus University of Amsterdam | Department of Political Science Research group: Challenges to Democratic Representation Co-director Hot Politics Lab<https://www.hotpolitics.eu/> [cid:image001.png@01DA282C.CFD55E30] Recent publications: Mazepus, H., Osmundsen, M., Petersen, M.B., Toshkov, D., & Dimitrova, A. (2023). Information battleground: Conflict perceptions motivate the belief in and sharing of misinformation about the adversary. Plos one, 18(3), e0282308.https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0282308 Mazepus, H. & Toshkov, D. (2022) Standing up for Democracy? Explaining Citizens’ Support for Democratic Checks and Balances, Comparative Political Studies 55(8): 1271-1297 https://doi.org/10.1177/00104140211060285 Rimkutė, D., & Mazepus, H. (2023). A widening authority–legitimacy gap in EU regulatory governance? An experimental study of the European Medicines Agency’s legitimacy in health security regulation. Journal of European Public Policy, 1-25. https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/bj4vn

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upcoming lab meeting
by Céline Laffineur 04 Dec '23

04 Dec '23

Dear Hot Politics Lab followers, This Friday (December 7th) there will be a Hot Politics Lab meeting from 15:00 – 16:00. During this session Stefanie Reher (University of Strathclyde) will give a talk titled "Framing Disability: Voter Evaluations of Candidate Self-Presentations in Election Campaigns." The talk will be followed by a Q&A, and everybody is welcome to join in the Common Room (REC-B9.22) or online. Those who want to join online can use this link<https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_N2UyYWI0NmItOTQ2OC00…>. In the meantime, you can watch any of the previous Hot Politics Lab meetings via our youtube<https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCg8cj8FXhcj9sSCwLEme6ZQ> channel. Hope to see many of you this Friday! Céline Laffineur PhD Candidate Amsterdam School of Communication Research (University of Amsterdam) IP-PAD MSCA Doctoral Network member politics & adolescence | ippad<https://www.ippad.eu/> [logo hot politics]

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