Hi everyone,
This Friday (November 5th) from 15:00 - 16:00 there will be another exciting Hot Politics Lab meeting. During this lab meeting, Giselinde Kuipers (KU Leuven) will give a talk titled "Humor and Polarization: How humor can drive people apart, in politics and beyond". See below a short bio of Giselinde. 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).
Giselinde Kuipers is research professor at KU Leuven in Belgium. Giselinde Kuipers (PhD, U of Amsterdam, 2001) is a cultural sociologist who studies the social shaping of cultural standards, and the consequences of such standards for such standards for social inequalities, identities and interactions. She has published extensively on humor, beauty, popular culture, cultural globalization, media, memes, translation, cycling, fashion, journalism and various other cultural forms, and is the author of Good Humor, Bad Taste: A Sociology of the Joke (second revised edition 2015). She was the editor-in-chief of the HUMOR: International Journal of Humor Research and is the editor of the forthcoming De Gruyter Handbook of Humor Research (2022). She is also the co-curator of an international online exhibit on Humor in the European public sphere, which will be launched in the fall of 2021.
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
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 (October 29th) from 15:00 - 16:00 there will be another exciting Hot Politics Lab meeting. During this lab meeting, Alan Sanfey (Radboud University) will give a talk titled "Social motivations in choice: insights from decision neuroscience". See below the abstract. 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:
Our lives consist of a constant stream of decisions and choices, from the mundane to the highly consequential. The standard approach to experimentally examining decision-making has been to examine fixed choices with clearly defined probabilities and outcomes, however it is an open question as to whether decision models describing these situations can be extended to choices that are made in more complex, social, contexts. This class of social decision-making offers a useful approach to examine other types of decisions, which may in fact better approximate many of our real-life choices. Here, we focus on several experiments where we use novel variants of decision tasks in conjunction with functional neuroimaging and computational modelling to observe how players decide in real, complex, contexts. In particular, these scenarios reveal motivations other than economic gain that appear to guide our decisions in a systematic fashion. I will also discuss how we can use these brain insights to build better models of human social norms, incorporating both psychological and neurobiological constructs.
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
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 (October 22nd) from 15:00 - 16:00 it will be "Graduate Friday" at the Hot Politics Lab. During this lab meeting, PhD candidate Isabella Rebasso (University of Amsterdam) will give a talk titled "Are political sophisticates really more easily swayed by emotional appeals? - Pre-Analysis Plan". Second, PhD candidate Lennart Schürmann (University of Cologne) will give a talk titled "Do you need to be violent to be heard? Responsiveness and emotional reactions of Western European parties to political protests". Both talks 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 (October 15th) from 15:00 - 16:00 there will be another hybrid Hot Politics Lab meeting. In this session, Christopher Lucas (Washington University in St. Louis) will give a talk titled "More than Words: How Political Rhetoric Shapes Voters' Affect and Evaluation". 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).
Christopher Lucas is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Washington University in St. Louis. He studies methodology, political communication, and the media. His research is published in the American Political Science Review and the American Journal of Political Science, among other venues. Ongoing work, supported by the National Science Foundation, develops and applies computational models for the statistical analysis of speech audio.
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 (October 8th) from 15:00 - 16:00 there will be another exciting talk at the Hot Politics Lab meeting. In this session, Hugo Mercier (CNRS, Institute Jean Nicod, Paris) will give a talk titled "Not born Yesterday: Why humans are less gullible than we think". Below the abstract. 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).
Abstract:
It is often thought that humans are gullible, easily manipulated by demagogues, advertisers, and politicians. I will argue that the opposite is true: humans are equipped with a set of psychological mechanisms that allow them to properly evaluate communicated information, and to reject information that is false or harmful. I will rely on experimental psychology data, as well as studies showing the failures of mass persuasion, from Nazi propaganda to American presidential campaigns. I will also offer explanations for the success of some misconceptions-from pizzagate to flat earth-that are not based on credulity.
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 (1st of October) we have another lab meeting from 15:00 till 16:00. In this session of the Online Hot Politics Lab, Henk van der Kolk (University of Twente) will give a talk titled "Confusing Discontent: are Populism, Political Distrust, Efficacy and Cynicism really so much different?". The talk 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).
Also, check out the exciting program of this semester on the website<https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hotpol…>. And if you missed any of the meetings, 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…>.
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
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Hi everyone,
This Friday (24/9) from 15:00 – 16:00 it is “Graduate Friday”. In this session of the Online Hot Politics Lab, Paul Stroet (University of Amsterdam) will give a talk titled “Predicting Personality Scores from Parliamentary Speeches”. After that, Dani Komáromy (University of Amsterdam) will talk about “Designing a Greentervention - Can populist Appeals Spur Environmental Collective Action?”. The two talks 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).
Also, check out the exciting program of this semester on the 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<http://www.hotpolitics.eu/lab-meetings-archive/>.
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,
Hopefully you enjoyed the summer! The Hot Politics lab meetings are back again! Our first session will be this Friday (17/9) from 15:00 - 16:00. In this session of the Online Hot Politics Lab, Pere-Lluis Huguet Cabot (Sapienza University of Rome) and David Abadi (University of Amsterdam) will give a talk titled "Computational approaches on modeling political rhetoric: basic emotions, media bias, metaphor, social identity and populist attitudes". The talk 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). Below some information about the speakers.
Pere-Lluis Huguet Cabot<https://littlepea13.github.io/> is a PhD candidate at the Computer Engineering Department (Sapienza NLP group), Sapienza University of Rome, where he is supervised by Roberto Navigli. He is an MSc-graduate of the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC), University of Amsterdam. His research interests encompass deep learning, knowledge graphs, natural language processing (NLP), multilingual NLP models and multi-task learning (MTL).
David Abadi<https://aice.uva.nl/members/members.html#David-Abadi> is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Amsterdam Interdisciplinary Centre for Emotion (AICE), Department of Social Psychology, University of Amsterdam. His research interests across (computational) social science encompass social identity, affective science (basic emotions and appraisal theory), conspiracy beliefs, threat (terror management theory), political psychology (extremism and populism) as well as perspective-taking and empathy in online-communication.
Also, check out the exciting program of this semester on the website<http://www.hotpolitics.eu/events/list/>. Below an overview of the upcoming talks of the coming weeks:
* 24/9: Paul Stroet (graduate student) talking about "Predicting Personality Scores from Parliamentary Speeches"
* 1/10: Henk van der Kolk (University of Twente) about "Confusing Discontent: are Populism, Political Distrust, Efficacy and Cynicism really so much different?"
* 8/10: Hugo Mercier (CNRS) about "Not born Yesterday: Why humans are less gullible than we think"
* 15/10: Christopher Lucas (Washington University) talking about "More than Words: How Political Rhetoric Shapes Voters' Affect and Evaluation"
Looking forward to "seeing" you all again!
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 (June 25) from 14:30 - 16:00 we will have a very special meeting since we will have 4 students from the masters Brain & Cognition (UvA) and Neuroscience (VU) present their projects with the Hot Politics lab. The students have been designing and conducting an EEG pilot study this last semester, see more information below. Note this meeting start 30 min earlier, so at 2.30 pm (CET). The talks 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.…>.
This meeting is already the last meeting of this semester! In the meantime, you can obviously enjoy our rich archive with talks by people like: Yanna Krupnikov (Stonybrook, link<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcKp7E7oiPY>), Ursula Hess (Humboldt University, link<https://youtu.be/8mbXCXo6cvM>), Constantine Boussalis (Trinity College Dublin, link<https://youtu.be/CDxaFMS35jI>), Leor Zmigrod (University of Cambridge, link<https://youtu.be/GSUik0fO26M>), Michael Bruter (London School of Economics, link<https://youtu.be/M0bOxxTnWjU>) and Gerben van Kleef (University of Amsterdam, link<https://youtu.be/SuXVN2suwPE>). Check out the complete archive here<http://www.hotpolitics.eu/lab-meetings-archive/>.
Measuring Neural Responses to Politics with EEG:
In this project, we investigate emotional and cognitive biases drive political information-processing and decision-making. We are interested in the neural manifestations (using EEG measurement) of such biases among individuals with different political preferences and background. Examining this will give us more understanding of how people process politically-related information and make relevant decisions. The project consists of three separate studies, which will each be presented this Friday at the Hot Politics lab meeting:
1. "Mirror neuron activity in response to in- vs out-party politicians: an EEG pilot study" - by Karlijn Hendriks (Neuroscience, VU)
2. "Are we averse to ambitious leaders? ERP correlates in Ultimatum Game" - by Xinyao Zhang (Brain & Cognition, UvA)
3. "Drawing distorted conclusions: EEG correlates of the ideological mind" - by Babke Weenk and Christian Ramelow (Brain & Cognition, UvA)
Post-doctoral Fellow Opportunity in Political Science:
For those interested, the Centre for the Politics of Feelings , a partnership between the School of Advanced Study, University of London and Royal Holloway, University of London, is hiring a Post-doctoral Fellow with background in quantitative Political Science. The Fellow will have the opportunity to develop an innovative and interdisciplinary research project that in the field of emotions and politics. See the application here: Post-doctoral Fellow in Political Science (politics-of-feelings.com)<https://www.politics-of-feelings.com/post/post-doctoral-fellow-in-political…>.
Looking forward to "seeing" 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 (June 18) from 15:00 - 16:00 there will be another exciting lab meeting. In this session of the Online Hot Politics Lab, Gijs Schumacher (University of Amsterdam) will give a talk titled "Doing psychophysiology research in political science". This is joint work with Bert Bakker, Matthijs Rooduijn, Maaike Homan, Neil Fasching. See the abstract of his talk below.
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).
Abstract:
Facial electromyography (fEMG) is a type of a psychophysiological measurement that can register immediate positive and negative affective responses to experimental treatments. There is a clear benefit in registering affective responses while participants undergo a treatment, and at the same time fEMG can tap into the unconscious aspects of affective responses. As such, they offer clear benefits to the more popular survey questions that are used to measure affective responses to stimuli. However, fEMG is rarely used in political science because of formidable difficulties in processing, analyzing and interpreting this data. This paper addresses these issues by pooling 5 independent data collections, with in total 585 participants, 98 unique treatments and approximately 400,000 seconds of unique fEMG responses. We propose a scheme of how to process data, which addresses the heterogeneity of fEMG responses. We offer a way of analyzing fEMG data, that is particularly beneficial for the political science context in which we are unlikely to find large effects. By processing large amounts of treatment characteristics and respondent characteristics we also offer a range of benchmarks of useful comparison categories and guidance for new treatment design. Additionally, these analyses offer new perspectives on how "hot" politics is and for whom specifically.
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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