If politics is a party game then why is loneliness on the rise? And what does the loneliness epidemic mean for political attitudes? Langenkamp et al. find a connection between loneliness and heightened perception of threats & conflict in society. Read open-access for more: doi.org/10.1111/pops...

Are you a policymaker, teacher, practitioner, academic in political science, psychology, education or related field? We’re inviting experts to complete a short survey on youth political participation: tinyurl.com/ywnseae3 For every completion, we’ll donate €1.20 to UNICEF. Please share!

This Friday (20.03) we’re hosting another Graduate Friday at the #HotPoliticsLab! Daniel Komáromy will present his work on radical right support, and Anvita Pant give a talk on the personalities of local politicians. 📍 Location: REC-B9.22 💻 Or join us online 👉 teams.microsoft.com/dl/launcher/...

🚀 Launching our CampAIgn Tracker for the Dutch municipal elections! We monitor AI-generated content across 4 platforms in 30 municipalities. PVV leads AI use again. And 90% of posts without any label. Can you spot the AI? Try our "AI of Niet?" game! gr26.campaigntracker.nl

🎓 This Friday (13.11), the #HotPoliticsLab returns! Alberto López Ortega will present his research on citizen backlash to foreign LGBTQ+ advocacy. 📍 Location: Common Room (REC-B9.22) 💻 Or join us online 👉 teams.microsoft.com/dl/launcher/... We hope to see many of you on Friday!

So, my defense ceremony is coming up (Apr 9th, 10AM), and my brilliant paranymphs have created a website for the occasion! Couldn’t have asked for a better team! Thank you, @favstats.eu, @delaneypeterson.bsky.social, Roeland Dubèl, @cvargiu.bsky.social, @ernesto-deleon.com RSVP at: lnkd.in/eAjhYvZV

Do negative encounters with immigrants activate personality effects in PRR support? @cvalebeek.bsky.social, Daniel Komáromy, @delaneypeterson.bsky.social & @mrooduijn.bsky.social find it's not generally the case but initial exposure & out-group framing may matter: buff.ly/D5C50zO (OPEN ACCESS)

Super happy to see this paper with @isabellareb.bsky.social and @mrooduijn.bsky.social out.

Good morning ☀️ Ready for some sporty activity this morning? Join @delaneypeterson.bsky.social for a yoga session 🧘🏻‍♀️ in Room 6 at 8:15 or join @nielsmede.bsky.social for a morning run 🏃🏻 at the Hotel Papendal entrance at 7:45.

Politics Doesn’t Define How Most People See Themselves I’ve written a blog post just published by The Inquisitive Mind. Link: www.in-mind.org/blog/post/po... Very brief summary in the thread.

🎓 This Friday (06.02), Nanke Verloo will be our guest at the #HotPoliticsLab, presenting her work on studying emotions via ethnography and dramaturgy. 📍 Location: Common Room (REC-B9.22) 💻 Or join us online 👉 teams.microsoft.com/dl/launcher/... We hope to see many of you on Friday!

Do negative encounters with immigrants activate personality effects in PRR support? @cvalebeek.bsky.social, Daniel Komáromy, @delaneypeterson.bsky.social & @mrooduijn.bsky.social find it's not generally the case but initial exposure & out-group framing may matter: buff.ly/D5C50zO (OPEN ACCESS)

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

How can stable personality traits explain less stable PRR voting? Daniel Komaromy, @delaneypeterson.bsky.social, @mrooduijn.bsky.social and I test whether negative contact with immigrants 'activates' these traits. Mostly, it doesn't. But: initial exposure and out-group definition may matter.

👀 If you want a sneak peek of what I’ve been working on over the past four years, you can find a summary of my dissertation in the latest volume of @plc-journal.bsky.social, together with an insightful review by @emilievh.bsky.social. ➡️ plc-journal.eu/article/view...

Turning Politics Inside-Out: NEUROPOL Workshop! 🧠🗳️ Amsterdam, January 23rd We're discussing the core challenge of Political Neuroscience: How do we bridge the gap between detailed cognitive mechanisms (high internal validity) and real-world political behavior (high ecological validity)?

New paper out w/ @tomwgvdmeer.bsky.social & @hakhverdian.bsky.social in @epsrjournal.bsky.social. We show that political trust dynamics matter for electoral behavior. While stable and variable distrusters behave similarly, declining trust boosts both abstention and anti-establishment voting. 🧵

Excited to share a new preprint with @bnbakker.bsky.social, @ylelkes.bsky.social & @gijsschumacher.bsky.social! doi.org/10.31234/osf... Affective polarization research focuses almost exclusively on valence, despite affect having at least two core dimensions. We show that emotional arousal matters!

New in 'The Handbook of Loneliness': 📊 This chapter examines how loneliness shapes political attitudes and participation, distinguishing it from social embeddedness while highlighting their interconnected pathways. bit.ly/4p9ejBI #BookSky #ReserachPublishing @langenkamp.bsky.social

Looking forward to reading this comprehensive resource on loneliness, with chapters on attachment, the physiological effects of loneliness and loneliness and political behaviour, among others! link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

I wrote a short piece on capitalism and the states-system for @phenomenalworld.bsky.social www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bet...

🎓 This Friday (21.11), we are delighted to welcome Corinna Oschatz to the #HotPoliticsLab. She will present her work on the relationship between candidates' moral foundations and their campaign rhetoric. 📍 Location: Common Room (REC-B9.22) 💻 Or join us online 👉 teams.microsoft.com/dl/launcher/...

🎓 This Friday (14.11): another Graduate Friday at the #HotPoliticsLab! Mathies Jaeger Andresen and Anna Wickenkamp will present their work on political social status and trust, and populist communication. 📍 Location: REC-C3.06 💻 Or join us online 👉 teams.microsoft.com/dl/launcher/...

How do adolescents form their political views, and are they really so different from adults? Next Friday (Nov 7), the IP-PAD Doctoral Network and @hotpoliticslab.bsky.social host a conference in Amsterdam on adolescents and politics (attached program). DM or email [email protected] to join.

🎓 This Friday (31.10): another Graduate Friday at the #HotPoliticsLab! Gustavo Couto de Jesus and Hannes Bey will present their work on party cue processing, and origins of the political trust crisis. 📍 Location: Common Room (REC-B9.22) 💻 Or join us online 👉 teams.microsoft.com/dl/launcher/...

My first publication :) in Social Media + Society with @fhopp.bsky.social, Michael Hameleers & @lindabos.bsky.social: “Moral Foundations of Populist Communication.” We found populists lean more on Care/Authority plus they shift moral tone across platforms more than mainstreamers. shorturl.at/ip9i4

🎓 This Friday (17.10): another Graduate Friday at the #HotPoliticsLab! We’re excited to hear Linda Bomm and Daniel Komáromy present their work on societal threats and support for the radical right. 📍 Location: Common Room (REC-B9.22) 💻 Or join us online 👉 teams.microsoft.com/dl/launcher/...

🚀🎉 Thrilled to share that the first paper of my PhD dissertation is now published in Political Studies Review: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Does social media help women politicians overcome barriers in visibility - or does it just replicate old hierarchies? A short 🧵

🚨 New publication out @jeppjournal.bsky.social w/ Katrin Praprotnik @luanarusso.bsky.social @markuswagner.bsky.social We show that coalition signals from the mainstream right to the radical right shift, rather than reduce, existing political divisions. Open-access article: doi.org/10.1080/1350...

- Posted two new preprints (with @bnbakker.bsky.social @delaneypeterson.bsky.social & Maaike Homan) On politics and mental health: osf.io/preprints/ps... On politicians’ emotional appeals and voting: osf.io/preprints/ps...

New pre-print! Is there a need for domain-specificity when studying mental health (MH) and politics? In our study in the Netherlands, we find political mental health (PMH) is distinct from MH & has unique political correlates, from polarization to ideological extremism. doi.org/10.31234/osf...

🎓 Upcoming Friday (26.09), we are delighted to host Professor Atsushi Tago to the #HotPoliticsLab! He will give a talk on disgust and the perceived costs of war. 📍 Location: Common Room (REC-B9.22) 💻 Or join us online 👉 teams.microsoft.com/dl/launcher/... See you Friday!

🎓 This Friday (19.09), we are honored to welcome professor @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social to the #HotPoliticsLab! She will present her work on Facebook user reactions to party campaigning. 📍 Location: Common Room (REC-B9.22) 💻 Or join us online 👉 teams.microsoft.com/dl/launcher/...

This Friday (12.09), we kick off the academic year at the #HotPoliticsLab with our very own (and recently appointed!) professor Gijs Schumacher! He will present his work on emotions and political behavior. Join us in the Common Room (REC-B9.22) or online via teams.microsoft.com/dl/launcher/...

✨ New Academic Year, New Speaker Series! ✨ We hope you all had a wonderful summer break. We’re thrilled to announce the #HotPoliticsLab Speaker Series lineup for the first semester of the 25/26 academic year. We look forward to welcoming you back for another year of thought-provoking discussions!

📣 OA Publication alert! 📣 "Says who? The role of party cues in explaning the positive and negative consequences of political moral appeals in Europe" In Party Politics #thread journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

"Misschien is een beetje frictie en emotie soms juist nodig om de democratie levendig en relevant te houden." Heel mooie blog over polarisatie en democratie door @turkenburgemma.bsky.social en @lisajanssen.bsky.social. stukroodvlees.nl/polarisatie-...

1/4 My first dissertation paper is now out with @bnbakker.bsky.social & @gijsschumacher.bsky.social! Do our brains quickly encode partisan bias when simply viewing politicians’ faces? The paper: doi.org/10.1080/1747... Journalistic article by Psypost: www.psypost.org/early-brain-...

Heel trots op @ellenlnt.bsky.social @tobiaskleineidam.bsky.social, Henrik Pröpper, Anna Wickenkamp en Annamijn Beijeman die onder hoge druk mooi verkiezingsonderzoek voorbereiden @ascor.bsky.social.

Here is my (a little bit belated) mandatory #IPSA2025 post! I will present tomorrow on disability representation and emotion! See you there ✨

From our new issue: On Political Misogyny by SUZANNE DOVI www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Our new book THE PSYCHOLOGY OF ATTACK POLITICS is out next month! 🔥📚 We offer a new look at negativity effects, via perceptions & evaluations🤔😱👿🤣 You can pre-order it with a nice 20% discount on the cover price (for paperbacks this makes it £32 or so) Check out discount code & link in the flyer 👇

Are we good at describing our feelings about politics? In our new preprint @mrooduijn.bsky.social @isabellareb.bsky.social we show this is not the case: osf.io/preprints/os... [1/6]

Delighted that my first book was awarded the 2025 Francesco Guicciardini Prize for Best Book in Historical International Relations! Many thanks to the prize committee and to my friends and colleagues in the Historical IR section at ISA!

If you are interested in extracting moral values from text corpora, check out our latest resource, the extended Morality as Cooperation Dictionary (eMACD). Led by the brilliant @musamalik.bsky.social, we show that eMACD surpasses the (predictive) validity of previous moral foundations dictionaries 📕

Do people accurately judge the public opinion climate during crises? Using 2 yrs of data, our study dives into perceptions of public opinion on COVID‑19 measures, why those views often missed the mark, and what can help correct them! Now in @polcommjournal.bsky.social 🧵👇 doi.org/10.1080/1058...

🚨 “We just need to recognize that we’re all citizens of this country.” –– Politicians + citizens often stress a shared national identity when trying to bridge racial, partisan, or other group divides. @stysyropoulos.bsky.social & I show why such “shared” identities are doomed to fail. 🧵1/9

Barry Blitt’s cover for this week’s issue, “The First Hundred Days.” #NewYorkerCovers nyer.cm/ysrCZ47

Pundits are - in vain - looking to economics and politics when trying to explain Trump's behavior. But, in reality, the central place to look if we want to understand Trump and his policies is this: The psychology of dominance. 🧵(1/5)

🚨 New open-access publication out in the European Journal of Political Research! @markuskollberg.bsky.social and I examine how coalition government performance shapes affective polarization between coalition partners—and find that it matters. 🧵 1/6 ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....