Hot Politics Lab

In this session of the Online Hot Politics Lab, Steven W. Webster (Indiana University) presented his work on anger in politics. His book "American Rage: How Anger Shapes Our Politics" was published in August 2020 with Cambridge University Press.  

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, Julian Aichholzer (University of Vienna) presented work on preferences for personality traits in politicians.

In this session of the Online Hot Politics Lab, PhD candidate Isabella Rebasso (UvA Political Science) presented her work on discrete emotional appeals in politics. Aftewards, PhD candidate Tobias Rohrbach (UoFribourg) gave a talk titled “Using think-aloud protocol analysis to explore the process of gendered candidate evaluations”.

In this session of the Online Hot Politics Lab, Chris Federico (U Minnesota) gave a talk titled “Collective Narcissism as a Basis for Nationalism”. 

In this session of the Online Hot Politics Lab, Ryan Boyd (U Lancaster) gave a talk titled “Psychology and Verbal Behavior”.  

Ryan Boyd is a computational social scientist at Lancaster University (previously Microsoft, University of Texas) interested in language, personality and motivations. He tries to understand how hidden patterns in our language reveal who we are and how we think. His work has appeared in various interdisciplinary journals such Science Advances, PNAS, Dreaming and the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.  

The Online Hot Politics Lab meets every Friday at 3pm (CET). Everybody is welcome to join via Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/839478901

In this session of the Online Hot Politics Lab,  Agneta Fischer (UvA Social Psychology) gave a talk on "Fear and Populism".  

he Online Hot Politics Lab meets every Friday at 3pm (CET). Everybody is welcome to join via Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/839478901

In this session of the Online Hot Politics Lab,  Maaike Homan (UvA Political Science) presented preliminary results of a preregistered physiology experiment examining how people respond to politicians’ emotional displays, and Christian Pipal (UvA Political Science) introduced a new method to measure emotions in parliamentary speeches.  

The Online Hot Politics Lab meets every Friday at 3pm (CET). Everybody is welcome to join via Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/839478901

In this session of the Online Hot Politics Lab,  Gordon Pennycook (U Regina) presented his work on the predictors of covid attitudes and behaviors as well as work on correcting misinformation which is very relevant to understanding the corona-crisis.  The Online Hot Politics Lab meets every Friday at 3pm (CET). Everybody is welcome to join via Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/839478901

In this session of the Online Hot Politics Lab, Melissa Baker (UC Merced, Political Science) presented a paper  on political engagement and the susceptibility to anxiety. Afterwards, Ming Boyer (University of Vienna, Communication Science) presented a paper on the role of affective states in explaining motivated reasoning in response to political news.   The Online Hot Politics Lab meets every Friday at 3pm (CET). Everybody is welcome to join via Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/839478901

In this session of the Online Hot Politics Lab, Chris Karpowitz (Brigham Young University, Political Science) and Joshua Gubler (Brigham Young University, Political Science)  gave a talk about their work on mixed affective states.