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Next Hot Politcs Lab Meeting
by Homan, Maaike 17 Dec '19

17 Dec '19

Hi everyone, This Friday will be the last Hot Politics lab meeting of 2019. We have two presenters. Loes Aaldering will present her veni proposal: "Seeing the bigger picture. The consequences of (non)verbal gender stereotyping in politicians' media coverage for media consumption and political attitudes". See attached her proposal, especially section 2a, 4a and 4b are relevant. Furthermore, Gijs Schumacher will present "Yikes! Are we disgusted by politicians?". We meet Friday from 15:00-17:00 in the Common Room (B9.22). Hope to see you 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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Next Hot Politics Lab meeting
by Homan, Maaike 10 Dec '19

10 Dec '19

Hi everyone, This week we have again two presentations. Mariska Kret (University of Leiden) will talk about "Emotional expressions in Homo and Pan". Furthermore, Mike Medeiros will present "Gender, Personality, and Elected Office". We meet Friday from 15:00-17:00 in the Common Room (B9.22). Hope to see you all there! 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]

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This Friday's Hot Politics Lab meeting
by Homan, Maaike 03 Dec '19

03 Dec '19

Hi everyone, I'm excited to announce the set of speakers of this Friday's lab meeting! First: "APART - measuring affective polarization in parliamentary speeches" a presentation by Philipp Mendoza, Nico Berk, and João Areal Neto. Second, Jan-Willem Duyvendak will present "The sociology of emotions". We meet Friday from 15:00 - 17:00 in the Common Room (B9.22). Hope to see you all there! 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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This Friday's Hot Politics Lab Meeting
by Homan, Maaike 27 Nov '19

27 Nov '19

Hi everyone, For this Friday's lab meeting we have again two great speakers! Visiting scholar Lena Masch (from Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf) will present: "Talk Less - Smile More? the Role of Candidates' Physical Attractiveness and Facial Expressions in Elections". Furthermore, Susi Kohout (PhD candidate, ASCoR) will talk about: "Receiving Others' Attention with Anger: Results of An Eye Tracking Study on the Effects of Emotions in User Comments on Attention and Recognition Memory". She might send around her paper later this week. We will meet this Friday from 15:00 - 17:00 in the Common room on the 9th floor (B9.22). Look forward to seeing you there! 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]

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Next Hot Politics Lab Meeting
by Homan, Maaike 22 Nov '19

22 Nov '19

Hi everyone, This Friday we will have a lab meeting again! With two presentations: Isabella Rebasso will present “Do participants recognize appraisal dimensions in text? A discussion of pre-test results of experimental stimuli manipulating the appraisal of political issues.” And furthermore Linda Bos (ASCoR) will talk about “The presence and effects of moral appeals in European political elite communication”. See attached an extended abstract of her research project. Furthermore, me, Bert and Gijs are conducting an experiment in the lab and looking for Dutch participants. So would be great if those of you who are teaching or working with some Dutch students could share the following: Wij zoeken proefpersonen! We zijn bezig met een experiment waarin we onderzoeken hoe mensen hun mening vormen. Doen we dit compleet rationeel? Of komen er ook veel onderbuikgevoelens bij kijken? Het is een fysiologisch experiment (er worden een aantal electroden op je gezicht en hand geplakt) van 45 minuten, voor 1 ppu of €7,50! Via deze link kun je je opgeven: https://www.lab.uva.nl/lab/onderzoek/overzicht (klik op “Hoe vorm jij je mening?”) Thanks! See you 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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Next Hot Politics Lab meeting
by Homan, Maaike 05 Nov '19

05 Nov '19

Hi everyone, This week we have two external speakers giving a presentation. First, social and political psychologist Ruthie Pliskin (Leiden University) will give a talk (topic still a surprise). Second, Cognitive neuroscientist Jos van Berkum (University of Utrecht) will give a talk titled "Emotion in discourse: Simulation evaluation, and more?". Below the abstract of his talk + two references that you could read before the presentation (if interested). As usual, we will meet at 15:00 in the Common Room (B9.22). 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] Emotion in discourse: Simulation, evaluation, and more? Language is a powerful combinatorial code for reference. However, that code is used to 'get things done' in the world, and, therefore, often used to talk about emotion -- our own as well as that of others. This presents a highly interesting puzzle. On the one hand, embodied language processing research suggests that when reading a word like "frustrated", or "Mark is frustrated", people use their emotion systems to simulate lexical and referential meaning (e.g., to imagine Mark's emotion). On the other hand, though, readers usually have their own evaluative feelings about what is being referred to, e.g., whether a particular situation is fair (cf. "the bully is frustrated"). How does the secondary, derived use of our emotion systems to simulate conceptual and/or referential linguistic meaning combine with the primary, natural use of our emotion systems in evaluating what people tell us? Do both occur simultaneously? To explore this, we have used EMG-recordings over the frowning muscle, as readers process fictional narratives. Our first results fit the simultaneity idea: readers frown more to "Mark is frustrated" than "Mark is happy" when Mark is a morally good person, but not when Mark is bad. However, important theoretical alternatives are still on the table. For example, reduced identification with bad protagonists might lead to weaker language-driven simulation and/or weaker emotional mimicry (contagion). In the talk, I will not only discuss empirical studies, but will also use (an EMG-customized version of) the Affective Language Comprehension model to illustrate the complexity that we are facing in this type of work. 't Hart, B., et al. (2019). Tracking affective language comprehension: Simulating and evaluating character affect in morally loaded narratives. Frontiers in Psychology, 10. 't Hart, B., et al. (2018). Emotion in Stories: Facial EMG Evidence for Both Mental Simulation and Moral Evaluation. Frontiers in Psychology, 9.

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H2020 DEMOS project (report on populism in The Netherlands)
by David Abadi 30 Oct '19

30 Oct '19

Dear colleagues @ HotPoliticsLab, Within the framework of our H2020 DEMOS project, we are urgently seeking a student (Dutch native speaker) for writing up a report on populism in the Netherlands based on previously coded data (collected Facebook posts etc.). Our preference would be a social-scientist with an interest in Dutch populism. Our budget for this task amounts to 200 EUR. If you know any potential candidate, please contact me asap and I’ll provide further details. Best, David David Abadi (Ph.D.) Social Psychology Program, University of Amsterdam Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR) 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 <https://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/219150/factsheet/en> https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498557009/Negotiating-Group-Identities-in-Multi… <https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498557009/Negotiating-Group-Identities-in-Multi…>

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Next Hot Politics Lab Meeting
by Homan, Maaike 29 Oct '19

29 Oct '19

Hi everyone, This week we will have a lab meeting again! We will have two great presentations. First we will have a presentation by Amanda Friesen (visiting scholar from IUPUI). She will present a project co-authored by Mariken van der Velden, titled "Taking risks or playing safe: Gender and party effects in politicians' certainty and risk rhetoric, Ireland & UK 1988-2015." Second, Gijs Schumacher will present "How to organize a workflow with multiple authors? Furthermore, we are looking for some people interested in helping us during data collection at a film festival in Nijmegen next week. We are conducting one of our physiology experiments and it would be great to have a little bit more help with recruiting participants, informing them about the experimental procedure, helping with the experiments and other small tasks. We are going 7,8,9,10th of November from 13:00 till 21:00 (on Sunday till 19:00), any help is welcome. Of course we will pay you for all the hours and expenses. Let me know if you're interested or know anyone who might be interested! See you Friday! 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]

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Next Hot Politics Lab Meeting
by Homan, Maaike 14 Oct '19

14 Oct '19

Hi everyone, This Friday we will again have to exciting presentations! First, Christian Pipal will present a draft of his 8 month paper on emotional rhetoric in legislative debate. Second, Ebe-Manye Ouattara will present: "From norms, to traits, to trust? An experimental panel study into norms of political leaders' traits and their relation to political trust". Attached you find a draft of the paper and below some comments from Ebe regarding the feedback he would like to receive on his paper. This Friday our lab meeting will be in the Common Room on the 9th floor, from 15:00 till 17:00. Hope to see you all there! Best, Maaike Homan PhD Candidate at the Political Science Department Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research University of Amsterdam Room B10.01 [cid:b287e3c2-153e-403e-bc44-a94a63273a9d] --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear hot politics lab members, The paper attached still has quite a long way to go before it is completed so feedback at this stage is most welcome. In particular, I’d like to point out that: * We plan on rewriting the norms section to better convey why we believe norms play an important in evaluations. * Pointers toward any sources or psychological literature on norm-based evaluations is much appreciated. * We also have a number of robustness checks to perform (see next steps section at the end) but we are open to conduct additional robustness checks that we haven’t thought about. * Any thoughts on how to make sense of these preliminary findings in light of our research puzzle and question is also welcome (e.g. does it contradict the model of norm-based evaluation or have we overlooked something?) Thanks in advance. Ebe Ebe-Manye Ouattara Ph.D. Candidate Department of Political Science, Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR), University of Amsterdam Nieuwe Achtergracht 166 , 1018 WV Amsterdam Room B8.22 Tel: +31687335494

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Re: [Hotpoliticslab] Meeting in room B3.11
by Homan, Maaike 08 Oct '19

08 Oct '19

Hi everyone, Just a follow up on the last email. I forgot to include the location of this Friday's lab meeting. This time we are not meeting in the Common Room, but in room REC B3.11 from 15:00 till 17:00. 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: Homan, Maaike [mailto:m.d.homan@uva.nl] Sent: dinsdag 8 oktober 2019 16:49 To: hotpoliticslab(a)list.uva.nl Subject: [Hotpoliticslab] This Friday's Hot Politcs Lab Meeting Dear lab members, This Friday we will have two exciting presentations! Andreu Casas (ASCOR) will present "Automated Visual Clustering: A Technique for Image Corpus Exploration and Annotation Cost Reduction". See attached a preliminary draft of the paper he will present. The second presentation is by Nico Berk, titled: "To lead or to follow? Mainstream parties' strategies and radical right success in Germany". See below some more information from Nico regarding his presentation. See you 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] _________________________ Dear all, I am happy to get the opportunity to present a project I have been working on as part of the 'Big Data' course this Friday in the lab. The idea was to construct a measure of the attention parties devote to immigration, based on parties' press releases, using automated content analysis. The project went a bit further and I tried to estimate the effect mainstream parties' emphasis of immigration has on the radical right vote share (and vice versa), as well as the connection with public attention to the issue. As the starting point was entirely empirical, especially theory and analysis are still work in progress and the further direction of the project is somewhat unclear - hence I am looking forward to your comments! If you are curious, you can find a short summary (and all the code files) in this folder<https://github.com/samunico/ImEm> on my GitHub. If you are very curious, there is a very brief introduction<https://github.com/samunico/ImEm/blob/master/00_Introduction_and_analytical…> and a notebook for the analysis<https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/samunico/ImEm/blob/master/07_TimeSeries…> online. You can obviously access all the code files, but remember to click the links in the description, not the files directly, as some won't display correctly otherwise. Looking forward to see you Friday! Best, Nico _____________________

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