Hi everyone,

This Friday (May 1^st) from 15:00 – 16:00 we will have another exciting online lab meeting! In this session of the Online Hot Politics Lab, Ming Boyer (University of Vienna, Communication Science) will present a paper on the role of affective states in explaining motivated reasoning in response to political news (see attachment). Afterwards, Melissa Baker (UC Merced, Political Science) will present a paper on political engagement and the susceptibility to anxiety.

The talk will be followed by a Q&A, and everybody is welcome to join via Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/839478901 at 3pm (CET). This is the same link we use every Friday.

Below an update of the program of the coming weeks:  

• May 8^th – Stephen Reicher: In this session of the Online Hot Politics Lab, Stephen Reicher (University of St. Andrews) will be our guest speaker (topic to be announced).  
• May 15^th – Gordon Pennycook: In this session of the Online Hot Politics Lab, Gordon Pennycook (U Regina) will present work on the predictors of covid attitudes and behaviors as well as the work on correcting misinformation is very relevant to understand the corona-crisis. Please note that this session is scheduled from 4pm - 5pm!

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 four online meetings in our Online Hot Politics Lab Meetings archive here.  

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