Hi everyone,
Happy new year to you all!
New year, new exciting talks at the Hot Politics Lab, starting this Friday (14th of January) from 15:00 till 16:00. In this session of the Hot Politics Lab, Marte Otten (Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam) will give a talk titled "How (political) convictions can change basic cognition: A predictive processing approach". 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.…>.
Here an overview of the upcoming talks this month:
* January 21: Natalie Giger (University of Geneva) about "Perceptions of inequality and their links to ideology among political elites and citizens".
* January 28: Israel Waismel-Manor (University of Haifa) about "From corruption to cyberspace: Expanding what we study and how we study it."
* February 4: Christel van Eck (University of Amsterdam) about "Conceptualizing 'Online Climate Change Polarization'"
* February 18: Maaike Homan (University of Amsterdam) about "Consequences of Emotional Politicians: A Conjoint Experiment" & Chiara Vialli (University of Bern) about "Personality and Political Information Consumption: The Mediating Role of News Use Motives"
See the full program of the upcoming semester here<http://www.hotpolitics.eu/events/list/>. There are still spots for PhD students for the Graduate Friday, let us know if you are interested.
Have a great rest of the week and hope to see you all Friday!
Best,
Maaike
Maaike Homan
PhD Candidate at the Political Science Department
Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research
University of Amsterdam
Room B10.01
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Hi everyone,
This Friday (December 10) from 15:00 - 16:00 will be the last Hot Politics Lab meeting of 2021. In this session of the Online Hot Politics Lab, Frederic Hopp (ASCoR, University of Amsterdam) will give a talk titled "Dissociable moral brain networks modulate the processing of political messages". 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).
We already have an exciting program of speakers lined up for the next semester. See a couple of examples below. The full program can be found at the Hot Politics website<http://www.hotpolitics.eu/events/list/>.
* 28 January - Israel Waismel Manor (University of Haifa):
>From corruption to cyberspace: Expanding what we study and how we study it
* 4 February - Christel van Eck (ASCoR, UvA):
Conceptualizing 'Online Climate Change Polarization'
* 18 February - Chiara Vialli (University of Bern):
Personality and Political Information Consumption: The Mediating Role of News Use Motives
* 4 March - Matthijs Rooduijn (UvA):
Creating empathy during a theater play: experimenting with 7000 people
Furthermore, for those interested (or know students that might be interested), Stony Brook University is offering a one-year Political Science MA with a focus on Political Psychology. The program includes small courses taught by full-time faculty focus on the psychology of public opinion, attitude change, persuasion, mobilization, and political behavior. More information can be found here: https://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/MApoliticalscience/index.php.
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
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Hi everyone,
This Friday (December 3) from 15:00 - 16:00, there will be another exciting lab meeting. In this session, Leonie Huddy (Stony Brook University) will give a talk titled "Nationalism and Party 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).
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
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Hi everyone,
This Friday (November 26th) from 15:00 - 16:00 it's Graduate Friday at the Online Hot Politics Lab. In this session, PhD candidate Christian Pipal (University of Amsterdam) will present a pre-analysis plan titled "Do politicians change their rhetoric over time?". Afterwards Matthijs Gillissen (Radboud University) will give a talk titled "Empathic Concern and Party Lines: Empathy within a Multiparty System".
The talks will be followed by a Q&A, and everybody is welcome to join via Zoom: https://uvalive.zoom.us/j/96492065253 or join the live session in the Common Room (REC-B9.22) 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!
Maaike Homan
PhD Candidate at the Political Science Department
Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research
University of Amsterdam
Room B10.01
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Hi everyone,
This afternoon from 14:00 - 16:00 there will be a special meeting at the Hot Politics Lab. Instead of our regular lab meeting, we are hosting the Dutch Political Psychology meeting. Unfortunately the zoom link I sent around doesn't work, so here is the correct one for this afternoon's Political Psychology Meeting:
The correct zoom link: https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/96492065253<https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fuva-live.…>
Zoom attendants will also have the opportunity to ask questions. See below the program.
Program:
14:00-14:45 Yasin Koc (University of Groningen, Department of Social Psychology)
"Apology doesn't kill the guilt!" Advantage group's support for social change increases after apologizing to the disadvantaged group"
14:45-15:00 Coffee break
15:00-15:45 Jamie Settle (College of William & Mary, Department of Government).
"What Goes Without Saying: Navigating Political Discussion in America"
15:45-16:00 Announcements
Looking forward to seeing you online this afternoon!
Best,
Maaike Homan
PhD Candidate at the Political Science Department
Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research
University of Amsterdam
Room B10.01
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Hi everyone,
This Friday (November 19th) there will be a special meeting at the Hot Politics Lab. Instead of our regular lab meeting, we are hosting the Dutch Political Psychology meeting. During this session, Yasin Koc (University of Groningen, Department of Social Psychology) and Jamie Settle (College of William & Mary, Department of Government) will both give a talk, see the program below. Note that the meeting starts 1 hour earlier: from 14:00 till 16:00. Everyone is welcome to join, by using this link: https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/81521726247<https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fuva-live.…>. Zoom attendants will also have the opportunity to ask questions.
Program:
14:00-13:45 Yasin Koc (University of Groningen, Department of Social Psychology)
"Apology doesn't kill the guilt!" Advantage group's support for social change increases after apologizing to the disadvantaged group"
14:45-15:00 Coffee break
15:00-15:45 Jamie Settle (College of William & Mary, Department of Government).
"What Goes Without Saying: Navigating Political Discussion in America"
15:45-16:00 Announcements
Anyone who wants to stay on after the meeting for informal conversation is welcome to. Looking forward to virtually seeing you online on the 19th!
Best (also on behalf of Jojanneke van der Toorn, Bert Bakker, and Ruthie Pliskin),
Maaike Homan
PhD Candidate at the Political Science Department
Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research
University of Amsterdam
Room B10.01
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Hi everyone,
This Friday (November 12) from 15:00 - 16:00, there will be another exciting lab meeting. In this session, Hannah Nam (Stony Brook University) will give a talk titled "Genetic justification: Can narratives about genetic science impact racial attitudes and political preferences".
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).
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
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