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Online Hot Politics Lab 11/6
by Maaike Homan 08 Jun '21

08 Jun '21

Hi everyone, This Friday (June 11) from 15:00 - 16:00 there will be another exciting lab meeting. In this session of the Online Hot Politics Lab, Bert Bakker (University of Amsterdam) will give a talk titled "Reassessing the relationship between personality and political preferences". 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: Research on personality and political preferences generally assumes unidirectional causal influence of the former on the latter. However, there are reasons to believe that citizens might adopt what they perceive as politically congruent psychological attributes, or at least be motivated to view themselves as having these attributes. We test this hypothesis in a series of studies. Results of preregistered panel analyses in three countries suggest reciprocal causal influences between self-reported personality traits and political preferences. In two two-wave survey experiments, a subtle political prime at the beginning of a survey resulted in self-reported personality traits that were more aligned with political preferences gauged in a previous assessment. We discuss how concurrent assessment within the context of a political survey might overestimate the causal influence of personality traits on political preferences, and how political polarization might be exacerbated by political opponents adopting different personality characteristics or self-perceptions thereof. 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 [logo hot politics]

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Hot Politics Lab 4/5 & Pol Psych Meeting 3/5
by Maaike Homan 31 May '21

31 May '21

Hi all, Hope you had a great weekend! This Friday (May 4) from 15:00 - 16:00 there will be another exciting lab meeting. In this session of the Online Hot Politics Lab, Loes Aaldering (VU Amsterdam) will give a talk titled "'Dark side of the Mood. Candidate Evaluation, Voter Perceptions, and the Driving Role of (Dark) Personality Traits". This is a project co-authored by Allesandro Nai, Frederico Ferreira da Silva, Diego Garzia and Katjana Gattermann. 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). Furthermore, this Thursday (May 3) from 15:00 - 16:30 the third online Dutch Political Psychology will take place via zoom. Everyone is welcome to join (no registration needed). See the program of the meeting and the details below. Have a great rest of the week! Best, Maaike Homan PhD Candidate at the Political Science Department Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research University of Amsterdam Room B10.01 [logo hot politics] Dear Political Psychology enthusiasts, Please join us for our third Online Dutch Political Psychology Meeting, which will take place on Thursday June 3rd from 15:00 - 16:30. Political psychology is a thriving discipline in the Netherlands and beyond. Despite the current circumstances, we want to give political psychology enthusiasts the opportunity to connect, share ideas and provide feedback on each other's work. We therefore organize this third Online Political Psychology meeting. In this meeting we will have two excellent speakers: Honorata Mazepus and Ben Ruisch. See the details and program of the meeting below. Details: Online meeting: This is another online meeting. Note that we stick to the online format for this meeting regardless of the exact nature of the corona measures on June 3rd. We do hope that we can meet you in person later this year. Zoom: https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/81521726247<https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fuva-live.…> Program: 15:00-15:30 Honorata Mazepus (Leiden University, Institute of Security and Global Affairs): "Keeping the powerful in check: from small communities to large states" 15:30-15:45 Break 15:45-16:15 Ben Ruisch (Leiden University, Department of Psychology). "How the (Perceived) Ideological Trajectory of Society Drives Support for Anti-Democratic Behavior" 16:15-16:30 Announcements 16:30-17:00 Online Drinks in Gather Town (see manual attached for those not familiar with Gather Town) Link: https://gather.town/i/DY1ZoaXG<https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgather.to…>. Password: PolPsych Hope to see you June 3rd! Best, Maaike Homan Bert Bakker Jojanneke van der Toorn Ruthie Pliskin

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Online Hot Politics Lab 28/5
by Maaike Homan 25 May '21

25 May '21

Hi everyone, This Friday (May 28) from 15:00 - 16:00 it is "Graduate Friday" again in the Online Hot Politics Lab. In this lab meeting, PhD candidate Robin Tschötschel (University of Amsterdam) will give a talk titled "Controversies, Identity, and Emotions in Climate Change Communication". See below the abstract and bio. The talks 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). Robin Tschötschel: "Controversies, Identity, and Emotions in Climate Change Communication" Abstract: Arguably a topic of heated debate across the globe, the public conversation about climate change differs remarkably between the United States and Germany - media cover different controversies and in how they report on the actors involved. After a (very) brief summary of these pas findings from my PhD project, I will zoom in on a recent survey experiment in Germany (N=1172), testing the effects of 'consensus messages' informing people about the de-facto scientific consensus on climate change. While the experiment shows good evidence against practically relevant effects, other findings about the psychological determinants of intended behaviour change and policy support are replicated in the German context. Lastly, I will discuss some potential explanations for these findings and their implications. Bio: Robin Tschötschel is PhD candidate at the Amsterdam School of Communication Research, focusing on the political dimensions of climate change communication. Drawing theoretical conclusions from the empirical work conducted over the past years, he currently gives it the working title "Climate change communication in the midst of a political Gestaltshift". He holds a MSc in Social Science Research (University of Amsterdam) and a bachelor's degree in Economics (University of Vienna). 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 [logo hot politics]

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Interesting talk
by Maaike Homan 18 May '21

18 May '21

Hi everyone, See below an invitation of a talk by Kai Ruggeri organized by Cameron Brick, that might be of interest to some of you: The Amsterdam Behavioral Insights Lab in the UvA Social Psychology group is welcoming an exciting outside speaker this Thursday at 3:30pm. I met Dr Ruggeri at Cambridge, where he was an assistant professor and doing all sorts of ambitious multi-site studies relating to public policy. He's now at Columbia. It's taken some months to convince him to give us a talk, and schedule it, and we finally nailed it down. This particular data required him getting various permissions from the partners to share, and I think it will be a treat. Hope you can join if this is of interest. Best wishes, Cameron Thurs 20 May at 3:30pm uva-live.zoom.us/my/brickc<http://uva-live.zoom.us/my/brickc> Unstandard deviation: The untapped value of positive deviance for reducing inequalities Kai Ruggeri, Assistant Professor, Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health, Department of Health Policy and Management Behavioral science is increasingly used in public policy to understand and address various manifestations of inequalities. Yet evidence from effective population-level interventions is limited. One framework, known as positive deviance, emphasizes individuals from disadvantaged circumstances who have significantly better outcomes than are typical for their group. Studying their behaviors and outcomes helps to understand what might explain their overall success. It can also help to incorporate those insights in such a way that would facilitate others from these circumstances to experience positive outcomes. Because positive deviance has been markedly understudied, we present a framework for doing so specifically within behavioral science for public policies aimed at reducing inequalities. Using examples from real-world and experimental insights on choices and outcomes of positive deviants, we encourage further study of their choices and trajectories over time to produce valuable insights. We propose that leveraging those findings would inform public policy by introducing interventions that are more ecologically sound and population relevant, and consequently have a better chance at benefiting those who start off under adverse circumstances. Best, 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 21/5
by Maaike Homan 18 May '21

18 May '21

Hi everyone, After a small break, we are back again with another lab meeting this Friday (May 21) from 15:00 - 16:00. In this session of the Online Hot Politics Lab, Cameron Brick (University of Amsterdam) will give a talk titled " Four Europes: Climate change beliefs and attitudes predict behavior and policy preferences using a latent class analysis on 23 countries." 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). 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 [logo hot politics]

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Hot Politics Lab 30/4
by Maaike Homan 28 Apr '21

28 Apr '21

Hi everyone, This Friday (April 30) from 15:00 - 16:00 it is "Graduate Friday" in the Online Hot Politics Lab. In this meeting, PhD candidate Tobias Widmann (European University Institute) will give a talk titled "How Renewable Energy Divides Politics. The Impact of Wind Turbines on Moral-Emotional Language in Political Discourse". 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 Male and Female 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.…> at 3pm (CET). Abstract for "How Renewable Energy Divides Politics. The Impact of Wind Turbines on Moral-Emotional Language in Political Discoursee" (Tobias Widmann): Climate change became an increasingly polarized issue over recent years. Research has shown that elite cues and, in particular, the emotional framing of the climate change debate matter for the shaping of public opinion. Yet, we still have limited knowledge about factors influencing emotional political discourse. In this study, I investigate how local exposure to climate-mitigation policies impacts the political debate. To do so, I combine information on wind turbines with parliamentary speeches from Germany. Using novel machine learning classifiers, I measure discrete emotional appeals in parliamentary speeches. Relying on generalized difference-in-difference models, I will investigate how individual politicians change their moral-emotional rhetoric after wind turbines have been constructed in their electoral district. 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 [logo hot politics]

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Hot Politics Lab 23/4
by Maaike Homan 20 Apr '21

20 Apr '21

Hi everyone, This Friday (April 23) from 15:00 - 16:00 we will have another lab meeting. In this session of the Online Hot Politics Lab, Liz Connors (University of South Carolina) will give a talk titled "Partisan Social Pressure and Affective Polarization." See the abstract of her 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). Partisan Social Pressure and Affective Polarization American politics today is affectively polarized-partisans report disliking and distrusting out-partisans while liking and trusting in-partisans. I examine if this climate could encourage partisans to report higher levels of affective polarization. I test this with two survey experiments (one with a convenience sample and one with a nationally representative sample from NORC's AmeriSpeak panel) and a set of analyses of 2008 American National Election Studies (ANES) data. My findings demonstrate that there is partisan social pressure to report affective polarization and that this could inflate survey responses, suggesting implications for the measurement of polarization, greater nuance in our understanding of polarization, and the potential for a "snowball effect" of political climates-where a climate of polarization could beget more polarization. Future work is needed for a broader understanding of how social context shapes expressions of partisanship. 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 [logo hot politics]

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Hot Politics Lab 16/4
by Maaike Homan 12 Apr '21

12 Apr '21

Hi everyone, This Friday (April 16) from 15:00 - 16:00 there will be another Online Hot Politics Lab meeting. In this session, Theresa Kuhn (University of Amsterdam) will present "Viral Solidarity? EU Solidarity and Risk-Sharing in the COVID-19 Crisis". See paper attached. 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). 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…>. 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 [logo hot politics]

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FW: UNPOP Vacancy and Contact
by Maaike Homan 08 Apr '21

08 Apr '21

Hi everyone, See below a vacancy for a postdoc position that might be of interest to some of you. 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] From: Cristiano Gianolla <cgianolla(a)ces.uc.pt<mailto:cgianolla@ces.uc.pt>> Sent: woensdag 7 april 2021 20:11 To: Gijs Schumacher <G.Schumacher(a)uva.nl<mailto:G.Schumacher@uva.nl>>; Matthijs Rooduijn <m.rooduijn(a)uva.nl<mailto:m.rooduijn@uva.nl>>; Bert Bakker <B.N.Bakker(a)uva.nl<mailto:B.N.Bakker@uva.nl>> Subject: UNPOP Vacancy and Contact Dear Bert, Matthijs and Gijs, I recently started to coordinate the project UNPOP<https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fces.uc.pt…> - UNpacking POPulism: Comparing the formation of emotion narratives and their effects on political behaviour at the Centre for Social studies of the University of Coimbra (Portugal). We have opened a research position for a post-doc researcher with experience and interest in populism and emotions, more information here<https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Feuraxess.…>. I would be grateful if you could circulate the call to potential candidates. I also hope that we will be able to share information about our research and initiatives in the near future and look forward to receiving any information that you think may be interesting to share with us. Cordially, Cristiano Cristiano Gianolla Researcher | Centre for Social Studies | University of Coimbra Investigador | Centro de Estudos Sociais | Universidade de Coimbra CES.uc.pt/en/ces/pessoas/investigadoras-es/cristiano-gianolla<https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fces.uc.pt%…> ORCID.org/0000-0002-2809-0453<https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Forcid.org%…> CIENCIAVITAE.pt/1013-878C-6EF9<https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcienciavi…> coimbra.ACADEMIA.edu/CristianoGianolla<https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcoimbra.a…>

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Hot Politics Lab 9/4
by Maaike Homan 07 Apr '21

07 Apr '21

Hi everyone, Hope you all had a great Easter break! We are back again with another online Hot Politics lab meeting this Friday (April 9) from 15:00 - 16:00. In this meeting, our new Hot Politics lab's postdoc Diamantis Petropoulos-Petalas will give a talk titled: "The believing brain: how cognitive neuroscience can inform us about decision-making in the political world". 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). 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…>. 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 [logo hot politics]

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