Hot Politics Lab

In this session of the Online Hot Politics Lab, Michael Bruter (London School of Economics) gave a talk titled “The psychology of our behavior in the voting booth”.  

Each week the Hot Politics Lab invites a guest speaker to give a brief talk on a timely topic, followed by a Q&A. Our meetings are open to the public, and you can join each Friday at 3pm (CET) via Zoom by following this link https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/96492065253​

In this session of the Online Hot Politics Lab, Yanna Krupnikov (Department of Political Science, Stony Brook University) gave a talk titled “When and Why Affective Polarization Affects Politics”.  

Each week the Hot Politics Lab invites a guest speaker to give a brief talk on a timely topic, followed by a Q&A. Our meetings are open to the public, and you can join each Friday at 3pm (CET) via Zoom by following this link https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/96492065253

In this session of the Online Hot Politics Lab, Constantine Boussalis (Trinity College Dublin) gave a talk titled “Multimodal Determinants of Voter Impression Formation of Female Political Candidates During Televised Debates”.  

Constantine Boussalis holds a Ph.D. in Political Science (World and Comparative Politics) and a M.A. in International Studies from Claremont Graduate University as well as a B.A. in Political Science from California State University, Los Angeles. His research interests include environmental politics, political communication, political behavior, and computational social science. Before joining the Department of Political Science at Trinity College Dublin in 2014, Constantine served as Empirical Research Fellow at Harvard Law School from 2011.

Each week the Hot Politics Lab invites a guest speaker to give a brief talk on a timely topic, followed by a Q&A. Our meetings are open to the public, and you can join each Friday at 3pm (CET) via Zoom by following this link https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/96492065253

In this “Graduate Friday” session of the Online Hot Politics Lab, PhD candidate Linn Andrea Vik (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) gave a talk titled “Uncovering the Personality of the Unelected”. Afterwards PhD candidate Tristan Klingelhöfer (JHU, HU Berlin) gave a talk titled “Parties’ views of the voters and campaign strategy: Comparing German, Austrian, and Italian parties with respect to rationality and emotion”.   

Each week the Hot Politics Lab invites a guest speaker to give a brief talk on a timely topic, followed by a Q&A. Our meetings are open to the public, and you can join each Friday at 3pm (CET) via Zoom by following this link https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/96492065253

In this session of the Online Hot Politics Lab, Leor Zmigrod (Department of Psychology & Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute, University of Cambridge) gave a talk titled “A Cognitive Science of the Ideological Mind”.  

Dr Leor Zmigrod is a Junior Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge. Her research combines methods from experimental psychology, cognitive science, and neuroscience to investigate the psychology of ideological adherence and group identity formation. In particular, she is interested in investigating cognitive characteristics that might act as vulnerability factors for radicalization and ideologically-motivated behaviour.  

Each week the Hot Politics Lab invites a guest speaker to give a brief talk on a timely topic, followed by a Q&A. Our meetings are open to the public, and you can join each Friday at 3pm (CET) via Zoom by following this link https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/96492065253

In this session of the Online Hot Politics Lab, Ursula Daxecker (University of Amsterdam) gave a talk titled “How Hostile Misinformation Shapes Beliefs and Attitudes: A Pre-Analysis Plan for a Survey Experiment in India.”, presenting ongoing joint work with Hanne Fjelde (Uppsala University & Peace Research Institute Oslo)  

Ursula Daxecker is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam. Her research focuses on elections and conflict. From 2020-2025, she is working on the project Elections, Violence, and Parties funded by the European Research Council. Her research has previously been funded by the Dutch Science Foundation (NWO), the European Commission’s Marie Curie Actions, and the U.S. Department of Defense Minerva Research Initiative. She is the guest editor (with Kristine Höglund and Sarah Birch) of the 2020 Special Issue “Electoral Violence” in Journal of Peace Research.  

Each week the Hot Politics Lab invites a guest speaker to give a brief talk on a timely topic, followed by a Q&A. Our meetings are open to the public, and you can join each Friday at 3pm (CET) via Zoom by following this link https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/96492065253

In this episode of the Online Hot Politics Lab, lab directors Gijs Schumacher and Bert Bakker sit down and have a look back at the the past year. They reflect on the challenges and opportunities of moving the lab online, our great guests, and the research taking place in the Hot Politics Lab. We hope you'll join again next year!  Each week the Hot Politics Lab invites a guest speaker to give a brief talk on a timely topic, followed by a Q&A. 

Our meetings are open to the public, and you can join each Friday at 3pm (CET) via Zoom by following this link https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/96492065253

In this “Graduate Friday” session of the Online Hot Politics Lab, PhD candidate Maaike Homan (University of Amsterdam) gave  a talk titled “Do we mimic politicians? Examining voters’ response to emotional politicians”. Aftwards PhD candidate Can Zengin (Temple University) gave a talk titled “The Role of Self-Conscious Emotions in Affective Polarization”.  

Each week the Hot Politics Lab invites a guest speaker to give a brief talk on a timely topic, followed by a Q&A. Our meetings are open to the public, and you can join each Friday at 3pm (CET) via Zoom by following this link https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/96492065253

In this session of the Online Hot Politics Lab, Patrick Stewart (University of Arkansas) gave a talk titled “Facing Farage: Using the Componential Processing Model of emotion to understand U.K. & U.S. citizen appraisal of immigration arguments”.

Each week the Hot Politics Lab invites a guest speaker to give a brief talk on a timely topic, followed by a Q&A. Our meetings are open to the public, and you can join each Friday at 3pm (CET) via Zoom by following this link https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/96492065253

In this session of the Online Hot Politics Lab, Mariken van der Velden (VU Amsterdam) gave a talk titled “Give a Little, Take a Little”: Political Parties’ Reputational Cost of Compromises.  

Each week the Hot Politics Lab invites a guest speaker to give a brief talk on a timely topic, followed by a Q&A. Our meetings are open to the public, and you can join each Friday at 3pm (CET) via Zoom by following this link https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/96492065253