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MEXCA Release
by Gijs Schumacher 30 Jan '24

30 Jan '24

Dear all, I am happy to announce the first release of MEXCA (v1.0.0). Developed together with the eScience Center, MEXCA is a tool for Multimodal Emotional eXpression Capture (with the final A for Amsterdam). You can feed MEXCA a video of for example an election debate. MEXCA identifies who speaks and who is shown in the video. Moreover it binds together state-of-the-art open-source tools to extract facial expressions, vocal characteristics and language tone from the video. Indeed, its strength is the combination of different existing pipelines. This dramatically reduces the time, costs and complexity of multimodal emotional analyses. You can try out MEXCA here: https://github.com/mexca/mexca. You can read our preprint on MEXCA here: https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/56svb We are also organizing a short workshop on February 14 (from 9:00 - 13:00 CET). In this workshop we will explain the tool and would like to discuss follow-up steps with participants. Also, we will ask several people who work on emotional expression in politics to present their work. The location is REC B9.22 (the Common Room). You can participate online too. Please send me an email if you want to participate in the workshop. Also feel free to forward this invitation to people you think may be interested. We would love to hear what you think. Kind regards, Dr. Gijs Schumacher Associate Professor Political Science University of Amsterdam Co-Director Hot Politics Lab<http://hotpolitics.eu/> Co-Director Challenges to Democratic Representation<https://aissr.uva.nl/content/research-groups/challenges-to-democratic-repre…> Web: gijsschumacher.nl<http://gijsschumacher.nl/> Twitter: @gijsschumacher [logo hot politics]

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next lab meeting
by Céline Laffineur 29 Jan '24

29 Jan '24

Dear Hot Politics Lab followers, This Friday (February 2nd) marks the start of our Graduate Friday series. As per usual, the Hot Politics Lab meeting will be held from 15:00 – 16:00. · Nikki Dekker will hold a talk on “Youth Unveiled: The Dynamics of Attitude Polarization on Democratic and Social Issues” · Dan Komaromy will talk about “Radical Activation: Competitive Norms and the Rise of the Populist Radical Right” 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 Researcher 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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upcoming labmeeting
by Céline Laffineur 22 Jan '24

22 Jan '24

Dear Hot Politics Lab followers, This Friday (January 26th) there will be a Hot Politics Lab meeting from 15:00 – 16:00. During this session, Evelyne Crone (Erasmus University) will give a talk titled "Self and others in adolescence: Insights from brain imaging ". 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…>. Hope to see many of you this Friday! Kind regards, Céline Laffineur PhD Researcher 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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upcoming labmeeting
by Céline Laffineur 15 Jan '24

15 Jan '24

Dear Hot Politics Lab followers, This Friday (January 19th) there will be a Hot Politics Lab meeting from 15:00 – 16:00. During this session, Lysanne te Brinke (Erasmus University) will give a talk titled "Adolescents’ needs to contribute to society: opportunities, challenges, and future directions". 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 Researcher 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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Hot Politics Lab New Year's Reception
by Linda Bomm 10 Jan '24

10 Jan '24

Dear Hot Politics Lab followers, As some of you may know, we are hosting a new year's reception for the Hot Politics Lab this Friday, 12.01., at 16:30, in the common room of Political Science (REC-B9.22, the same location as the HPL meeting). We invite you to join us in welcoming the new year and the exciting research that lies ahead. We will be offering (non-)alcoholic drinks and vegetarian and vegan bites - whether you prefer to toast to the new year with sparkling wine or adhere to your "Dry January" or "Veganuary" plans, we have something for everyone. 🙂 We are happy to consider any additional dietary restrictions you indicate to us. If you have not already accepted an invitation to the reception, please let us know whether you would like to attend by replying to this email by Thursday, 11.01. Hope to see you on Friday at the HPL meeting and the reception! All the best, Linda Linda Bomm PhD Candidate Amsterdam School of Communication Research (University of Amsterdam) [logo hot politics]

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postdoc position
by Gijs Schumacher 09 Jan '24

09 Jan '24

Dear Hot Politics Lab Followers & Friends, Please note that - as part of a larger project - we are recruiting a postdoc. Here's the link to the vacancy: https://vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/Post-doc-Position-on-Emotions-in-Climate-C… Among other things you will get to work with our new software MEXCA. Kind regards, Dr. Gijs Schumacher Associate Professor Political Science University of Amsterdam Co-Director Hot Politics Lab<hotpolitics.eu> Co-Director Challenges to Democratic Representation<https://aissr.uva.nl/content/research-groups/challenges-to-democratic-repre…> Web: gijsschumacher.nl Twitter: @gijsschumacher [logo hot politics]

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upcoming labmeeting
by Céline Laffineur 08 Jan '24

08 Jan '24

Dear Hot Politics Lab followers, This Friday (January 12th) there will be a Hot Politics Lab meeting from 15:00 – 16:00. During this session, Josh Pasek (University of Michigan) will give a talk titled “Information & Identity: How individuals adopt biased political attitudes". 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] Céline Laffineur PhD Researcher 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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[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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