Hi everyone,

Hope you are all safe and healthy!

This week we will have another interesting online lab meeting. This Friday (April 10th) from 15:00 - 16:00 Anne Marthe van der Bles (University of Groningen, Psychology) will give a talk about communicating uncertainty (see her recent PNAS paper: https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/03/17/1913678117) on trust and follow-up studies on COVID-19.

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.

We can already announce the speakers lined up for the next few weeks:

* April 17th - Shana Gardarian: In this session of the Online Hot Politics Lab, Shana Gadarian (Syracuse University, Political Science) will give a talk on anxiety and politics. She will also talk about the geography of COVID-19 and individual health behavior. You can find some recent work on this here: https://tompepinsky.com/2020/03/29/the-geography-of-covid-19-and-individual-... * April 24th - Chris Karpowitz and Josh Gubler (at 4pm): In this session of the Online Hot Politics Lab, Chris Karpowitz (Brigham Young University, Political Science) and Joshua Gubler (Brigham Young University, Political Science) will give a talk about their work on mixed affective states. Please note that this session is scheduled from 4pm - 5pm! * May 1st - Ming Boyer and Melissa Baker: 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. Afterwards, Melissa Baker (UC Merced, Political Science) will present a paper on political engagement and the susceptibility to anxiety.

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 three meetings (with Michael Bang Petersen, Stuart Soroka, and Julia van Weert respectively) in our Online Hot Politics Lab Meetings archive: http://www.hotpolitics.eu/online-lab-meetings-videos/.

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 [logo hot politics]