Olaf Borghi
@olafborghi.com
Researching the political mind and how political beliefs develop 🧠 Doctoral candidate in the MSCA Network ippad.eu & Centre for the Politics of Feelings - @rhulpsychology.bsky.social 👥 Previously research assistant @univie.ac.at 🐕
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Olaf Borghi
@olafborghi.com
· Oct 10
Facing a dark future: Young people’s future anxiety and political attitudes in the UK and Greece
Study finds future anxiety linked to more conservative views among young men, but not young women, in the UK and Greece.
advances.in
🔍How does young people's anxiety about the future relate to their political attitudes?
Find out in my first PhD paper, just published in the special issue "The Psychology of Pushback" at advances.in/psychology/1...
Find out in my first PhD paper, just published in the special issue "The Psychology of Pushback" at advances.in/psychology/1...
What a week at the IP-PAD meeting in Amsterdam, where our doctoral network met for training and a conference on youth politics!! I also presented a poster on my recent work on young people's future anxiety and political views (read more here: shorturl.at/Rpc0y)! Super grateful for the fun time! :)
November 9, 2025 at 6:15 PM
What a week at the IP-PAD meeting in Amsterdam, where our doctoral network met for training and a conference on youth politics!! I also presented a poster on my recent work on young people's future anxiety and political views (read more here: shorturl.at/Rpc0y)! Super grateful for the fun time! :)
Finally, thanks to the European Union Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions and UKRI for funding this work, and to all my colleagues in the IP-PAD Doctoral Network (you can find out more about our work on www.ippad.eu)
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October 10, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Finally, thanks to the European Union Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions and UKRI for funding this work, and to all my colleagues in the IP-PAD Doctoral Network (you can find out more about our work on www.ippad.eu)
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🔍How does young people's anxiety about the future relate to their political attitudes?
Find out in my first PhD paper, just published in the special issue "The Psychology of Pushback" at advances.in/psychology/1...
Find out in my first PhD paper, just published in the special issue "The Psychology of Pushback" at advances.in/psychology/1...
Facing a dark future: Young people’s future anxiety and political attitudes in the UK and Greece
Study finds future anxiety linked to more conservative views among young men, but not young women, in the UK and Greece.
advances.in
October 10, 2025 at 12:38 PM
🔍How does young people's anxiety about the future relate to their political attitudes?
Find out in my first PhD paper, just published in the special issue "The Psychology of Pushback" at advances.in/psychology/1...
Find out in my first PhD paper, just published in the special issue "The Psychology of Pushback" at advances.in/psychology/1...
Huge thanks also to the team at @advances.in: The feedback from the editors, peer-reviewers, and production team was beyond exceptional! Bonus, peer-reviewers get paid for their work, which they more than deserve for the helpful feedback we received!!
Advances.in
October 10, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Huge thanks also to the team at @advances.in: The feedback from the editors, peer-reviewers, and production team was beyond exceptional! Bonus, peer-reviewers get paid for their work, which they more than deserve for the helpful feedback we received!!
This work is the result of a cross-country collaboration with my great colleagues and co-authors from the IP-PAD Doctoral Network Melina Niraki and Ermioni Seremeta, and my amazing supervisors @mtsakiris.bsky.social and Kaat Smets!
October 10, 2025 at 12:38 PM
This work is the result of a cross-country collaboration with my great colleagues and co-authors from the IP-PAD Doctoral Network Melina Niraki and Ermioni Seremeta, and my amazing supervisors @mtsakiris.bsky.social and Kaat Smets!
Today's younger generations will live the longest with the consequences of current political, societal, and natural crises, but they also have the potential to defend democratic values in the future!
October 10, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Today's younger generations will live the longest with the consequences of current political, societal, and natural crises, but they also have the potential to defend democratic values in the future!
Why this matters: Our findings suggest that understanding the futures that young people imagine—and how they feel about the future—is of considerable political relevance.
🌱 The focus on young people is also particularly important:
🌱 The focus on young people is also particularly important:
October 10, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Why this matters: Our findings suggest that understanding the futures that young people imagine—and how they feel about the future—is of considerable political relevance.
🌱 The focus on young people is also particularly important:
🌱 The focus on young people is also particularly important:
🧠 In follow-up analyses, we show how these associations differ not just by gender, but also depending on young people's emotion regulation strategies.
October 10, 2025 at 12:38 PM
🧠 In follow-up analyses, we show how these associations differ not just by gender, but also depending on young people's emotion regulation strategies.
😨 Surprisingly though, future anxiety across genders was also associated with 🚨 stronger support for democratic principles (e.g., equal rights to vote) and greater political participation 🚨
October 10, 2025 at 12:38 PM
😨 Surprisingly though, future anxiety across genders was also associated with 🚨 stronger support for democratic principles (e.g., equal rights to vote) and greater political participation 🚨
🙍 Our UK data further revealed that only among young men future anxiety was associated with more support for authoritarian principles and lower open-minded thinking
October 10, 2025 at 12:38 PM
🙍 Our UK data further revealed that only among young men future anxiety was associated with more support for authoritarian principles and lower open-minded thinking
👫 Future anxiety is associated with the ideological gender gap: Young men—but not young women—who are more anxious about the future also report being more politically conservative and right-wing. This results in ideological gender polarisation, but only among young people high in future anxiety!
October 10, 2025 at 12:38 PM
👫 Future anxiety is associated with the ideological gender gap: Young men—but not young women—who are more anxious about the future also report being more politically conservative and right-wing. This results in ideological gender polarisation, but only among young people high in future anxiety!
😨 In times of multiple crises, converging reports show many young people are anxious about the future. Yet how this relates to their political attitudes remains unclear. We here provide insights from survey data from close to 2,000 adolescents in the UK and Greece. Key findings:
October 10, 2025 at 12:38 PM
😨 In times of multiple crises, converging reports show many young people are anxious about the future. Yet how this relates to their political attitudes remains unclear. We here provide insights from survey data from close to 2,000 adolescents in the UK and Greece. Key findings:
🔍How does young people's anxiety about the future relate to their political attitudes?
Find out in my first PhD paper, just published in the special issue "The Psychology of Pushback" at advances.in/psychology/1...
Find out in my first PhD paper, just published in the special issue "The Psychology of Pushback" at advances.in/psychology/1...
Facing a dark future: Young people’s future anxiety and political attitudes in the UK and Greece
Study finds future anxiety linked to more conservative views among young men, but not young women, in the UK and Greece.
advances.in
October 10, 2025 at 12:38 PM
🔍How does young people's anxiety about the future relate to their political attitudes?
Find out in my first PhD paper, just published in the special issue "The Psychology of Pushback" at advances.in/psychology/1...
Find out in my first PhD paper, just published in the special issue "The Psychology of Pushback" at advances.in/psychology/1...
thank you for all the extremely helpful papers and blog posts!! so many of them are my go-to resources, and they came out surprisingly often with perfect timing for my work :)
September 11, 2025 at 12:30 PM
thank you for all the extremely helpful papers and blog posts!! so many of them are my go-to resources, and they came out surprisingly often with perfect timing for my work :)
marginaleffects is one of my favourite R packages and this is such a great paper!! extremely recommended, alongside all other papers from the two authors and also the amazing and free Model to Meaning book marginaleffects.com
Ever stared at a table of regression coefficients & wondered what you're doing with your life?
Very excited to share this gentle introduction to another way of making sense of statistical models (w @vincentab.bsky.social)
Preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf...
Website: j-rohrer.github.io/marginal-psy...
Very excited to share this gentle introduction to another way of making sense of statistical models (w @vincentab.bsky.social)
Preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf...
Website: j-rohrer.github.io/marginal-psy...
September 11, 2025 at 11:49 AM
marginaleffects is one of my favourite R packages and this is such a great paper!! extremely recommended, alongside all other papers from the two authors and also the amazing and free Model to Meaning book marginaleffects.com
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New paper out with @boryslaw.bsky.social 🥳 In which we sketch out how to rethink measurement invariance causally for applied researchers. And provide a causal definition of measurement invariance!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
September 11, 2025 at 9:11 AM
New paper out with @boryslaw.bsky.social 🥳 In which we sketch out how to rethink measurement invariance causally for applied researchers. And provide a causal definition of measurement invariance!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
This is incredible work, such an insanely cool paper and findings! Quite alarming that "[post-training and prompting methods that] increased AI persuasiveness [...] also systematically decreased factual accuracy"
Today (w/ @ox.ac.uk @stanford @MIT @LSE) we’re sharing the results of the largest AI persuasion experiments to date: 76k participants, 19 LLMs, 707 political issues.
We examine “levers” of AI persuasion: model scale, post-training, prompting, personalization, & more!
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We examine “levers” of AI persuasion: model scale, post-training, prompting, personalization, & more!
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July 22, 2025 at 2:00 PM
This is incredible work, such an insanely cool paper and findings! Quite alarming that "[post-training and prompting methods that] increased AI persuasiveness [...] also systematically decreased factual accuracy"
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In previous work with Manos Tsakiris @mtsakiris.bsky.social , we showed that interoception can act as a buffer against political stress. We now extend this research to the 2024 U.S. Presidential elections, capturing data before and after
Check out our preprint 👇
osf.io/preprints/ps...
Check out our preprint 👇
osf.io/preprints/ps...
OSF
osf.io
July 17, 2025 at 12:36 PM
In previous work with Manos Tsakiris @mtsakiris.bsky.social , we showed that interoception can act as a buffer against political stress. We now extend this research to the 2024 U.S. Presidential elections, capturing data before and after
Check out our preprint 👇
osf.io/preprints/ps...
Check out our preprint 👇
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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I'm glad someone did basic due diligence on the wolf paper. (Although - worth noting - PNAS has an impact factor of 9 and Electoral Studies an impact factor of 2: a familiar pattern with replications of fundamentally flawed findings.) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The East in wolf’s clothing. Wolf attacks correlate with but do not cause far-right voting
The resurgence of wolves in Germany has sparked intense debate, particularly in rural areas where wolf attacks on livestock are frequent. Prior resear…
www.sciencedirect.com
July 9, 2025 at 9:32 PM
I'm glad someone did basic due diligence on the wolf paper. (Although - worth noting - PNAS has an impact factor of 9 and Electoral Studies an impact factor of 2: a familiar pattern with replications of fundamentally flawed findings.) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Sharing our work at #ISPP in beautiful Prague on affective prescription —and how this shapes the kind of political leader we’re drawn to based on their appearance.
Preprint coming soon!
Preprint coming soon!
July 8, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Sharing our work at #ISPP in beautiful Prague on affective prescription —and how this shapes the kind of political leader we’re drawn to based on their appearance.
Preprint coming soon!
Preprint coming soon!
This book is highly recommended! Bonus is that I genuinely enjoyed working through it when it first came out
Experimentology is out today!!! A group of us wrote a free online textbook for experimental methods, available at experimentology.io - the idea was to integrate open science into all aspects of the experimental workflow from planning to design, analysis, and writing.
July 4, 2025 at 7:11 AM
This book is highly recommended! Bonus is that I genuinely enjoyed working through it when it first came out
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Great talk by @olafborghi.com on cognitive control and politically motivated reasoning, even in the face of unexpected interference 👇😂 #ISPP2025
July 3, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Great talk by @olafborghi.com on cognitive control and politically motivated reasoning, even in the face of unexpected interference 👇😂 #ISPP2025
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(1/6) #ISPP2025 is just one day away and I can't wait to be in Prague! It will be the first conference I attend during my PhD - looking forward to all the interesting sessions, catching up with friends, and meeting new people! 🤩 #PsychSciSky #polisky #CogSci #polpsy
July 2, 2025 at 11:26 AM
(1/6) #ISPP2025 is just one day away and I can't wait to be in Prague! It will be the first conference I attend during my PhD - looking forward to all the interesting sessions, catching up with friends, and meeting new people! 🤩 #PsychSciSky #polisky #CogSci #polpsy
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As one of my favourite colleagues Etienne Roesch just whispered to me in response to a #MetaScience2025 speaker suggesting AI could act as an additional grant reviewer:
A👏I👏is👏not👏an👏analytic👏tool
A👏I👏is👏not👏an👏analytic👏tool
July 2, 2025 at 2:51 PM
As one of my favourite colleagues Etienne Roesch just whispered to me in response to a #MetaScience2025 speaker suggesting AI could act as an additional grant reviewer:
A👏I👏is👏not👏an👏analytic👏tool
A👏I👏is👏not👏an👏analytic👏tool
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That’s the correct link :
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www.jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
July 1, 2025 at 4:30 PM
That’s the correct link :
www.jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
www.jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...