Hi everyone,

This Friday (December 10) from 15:00 – 16:00 will be the last Hot Politics Lab meeting of 2021. In this session of the Online Hot Politics Lab, Frederic Hopp (ASCoR, University of Amsterdam) will give a talk titled "Dissociable moral brain networks modulate the processing of political messages".  The talk will be followed by a Q&A, and everybody is welcome to join via Zoom: https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/96492065253  or join the live session in the Common Room (REC-B9.22) at 3pm (CET).

We already have an exciting program of speakers lined up for the next semester. See a couple of examples below. The full program can be found at the Hot Politics website.

• 28 January - Israel Waismel Manor (University of Haifa):
  From corruption to cyberspace: Expanding what we study and how we study it
• 4 February - Christel van Eck (ASCoR, UvA):
  Conceptualizing ‘Online Climate Change Polarization’
• 18 February - Chiara Vialli (University of Bern):
  Personality and Political Information Consumption: The Mediating Role of News Use Motives
• 4 March – Matthijs Rooduijn (UvA):
  Creating empathy during a theater play: experimenting with 7000 people

Furthermore, for those interested (or know students that might be interested), Stony Brook University is offering a one-year Political Science MA with a focus on Political Psychology. The program includes small courses taught by full-time faculty focus on the psychology of public opinion, attitude change, persuasion, mobilization, and political behavior. More information can be found here: https://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/MApoliticalscience/index.php.

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