Dear Hot Politics Lab followers,

This Friday (November 10^th) there will be a Hot Politics Lab meeting from 15:00 – 16:00. During this session, Vin Arceneaux (Sciences Po) will give a talk titled "Is political ignorance bliss? The social and political effects of Facebook".

The talks will be followed by a Q&A, and everybody is welcome to join in the Common Room (REC-B9.22) or online. For those who want to join online, note that we switched to Teams, so we will now use this link.

You can find the full program of this semester on our website. In the meantime, you can watch any of the previous online Hot Politics Lab meetings via the archive; the spotify channel or the youtube channel.

General announcements:

• Bert & Gijs are associate editors at Journal of Experimental Political Science and would like to point you to the following call:

Call for Papers

Special Issue on Validating Experimental Manipulations

Journal of Experimental Political Science

Submissions Due December 10, 2023

The strength of experiments lies in their ability to demonstrate a causal effect. Yet, for an experiment to live up to that promise, the treatment must carefully manipulate only the independent variable. To encourage further research in this area, we are calling for papers that validate experimental manipulations of constructs that are important to political science.

Proposals are required to come in the format of a Registered Report. More details on the format can be found here, but authors should submit a manuscript and study design prior to data collection.

Reviewers will evaluate and comment on the quality of the design and the likely benefits of such a study being carried out. If accepted in principle, authors will be invited to pre-register their design, conduct the experiment, and submit the full manuscript for a final review. The final review will focus on whether authors faithfully carried out the experiment, rather than the substantive results. This format is particularly apt for validating experimental manipulations as reviewer feedback will be aimed at improving the quality of the design rather than evaluating the results.

Submissions are due by December 10, 2023.

Questions? Contact us at jeps@apsanet.org

• Two PhD positions on emotions https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/160716
• Conference: Emotional Dynamics of (In)security and Politics https://www.uni-saarland.de/lehrstuhl/wenzelburger/forschung/emotional-dynamics.html

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