Hi everyone,

This Friday (March 26) is the last Friday of the month, which means it's Graduate Friday at the Online Hot Politics Lab! In this session Neil Fasching (University of Amsterdam) will talk about "Viral Violence: The Effects of Police Violence Framing, Group Identity, and Militarization on Public Outrage and Perception of Police". See the abstract of the project below. Afterwards, Christian Pipal (University of Amsterdam) will present "Emotional Rhetoric in Parliamentary Debates".

The talks will be followed by a Q&A, and everybody is welcome to join via Zoom: https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/96492065253https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fuva-live.zoom.us%2Fj%2F96492065253&data=04%7C01%7Cm.d.homan%40uva.nl%7Caf3b7cd6bfb946b0ecfc08d8e216ebe7%7Ca0f1cacd618c4403b94576fb3d6874e5%7C1%7C0%7C637507935376379494%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=NpIzkfAXivSkXbilFDmOdD0FgG4xScVIudb2Wkf7gbs%3D&reserved=0 at 3pm (CET).

Abstract (Neil Fasching): As the recent protests and demonstrations in response to police brutality make clear, the framing of police conduct can have a profound impact on the behavior and attitudes of the public. However, the specific extent of this impact has yet to be investigated. Using a large experiment (N = 3,927) fielded in the United States, I investigate the degree to which the framing of police violence affects the public's outrage and perception of the police. Further, I extent this literature by building on intergroup conflict theory and by replicating recent work into the effect of police militarization (Mummolo, 2018). And finally, I test how police violence, group identity, and militarization interact in influencing the public's anger and outrage as well as attitudes towards the police. The results indicate that police violence has a large positive effect on moral outrage and a small negative effect on police perception. Group identity did influence the degree to which individuals were outraged, at least for one of the two issues, while no three-way interactions were found. Exploratory analyses show that moral outrage differed by political parties with Republicans being less outraged than Democrats. In all, the results highlight that while people have profound emotional responses to police violence - such as being angered and outraged - the framing of police violence seems to have a minimal effect on the public's perception of the police.

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 online meetings in our Online Hot Politics Lab Meetings archive here: http://www.hotpolitics.eu/lab-meetings-archive/https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hotpolitics.eu%2Flab-meetings-archive%2F&data=04%7C01%7Cm.d.homan%40uva.nl%7Caf3b7cd6bfb946b0ecfc08d8e216ebe7%7Ca0f1cacd618c4403b94576fb3d6874e5%7C1%7C0%7C637507935376389490%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=a2IBv7JcGSgD%2BWHXhFb87wxWJWh7TkV1xebgtrEiouk%3D&reserved=0.

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 [logo hot politics]