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Bence Hamrak

@bencehamrak.bsky.social

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Phd researching public opinion and group identities @weareceu.bsky.social & representation @univie.ac.at | bencehamrak.github.io

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Levente (Levi) Littvay @littvay.bsky.social · 1d

NEW! The public opinion effects of antisemitic elite cues: a survey experiment on the Hungarian Soros campaign in @eepolitics.bsky.social w/ @bencehamrak.bsky.social @erinjenne.bsky.social G.Simonovits. Soros cues worked through partisan motivated reasoning & not antisemitism doi.org/10.1080/2159...

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Christopher Wratil 🇺🇦 #StandWithUkraine @chriswratil.bsky.social · 17h

🚨We are looking for a research assistant at the masters level to help us with designing & running some surveys in the MULTIREP project.

If you are based in Vienna or around, have some interest in political representation & experience with surveys, consider applying! 👇

wratil.eu/files/Resear...

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Tiago Ventura @tiagoventura.bsky.social · 1d

How common are “survey professionals” - people who take dozens of online surveys for pay - across online panels, and do they harm data quality?

Our paper, FirstView at @politicalanalysis.bsky.social, tackles this question using browsing data from three U.S. samples (Facebook, YouGov, and Lucid):

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Isabella Rebasso @isabellareb.bsky.social · 8d

Final day to submit to 24h of Political Psychology in February! We hope to see many of you in Vienna! 📚🎊

Julia Reiter @juliareiter.bsky.social · May 7

🎉We're back! 24 hours of Political Psychology is once again coming to Vienna - save the dates: 26 / 27 February 2026

▶️ Abstract submission is OPEN - find the link & further information here: 24hpolpsy.univie.ac.at

Very excited to co-host with @markuswagner.bsky.social and @isabellareb.bsky.social

24 HOURS OF POLITICAL PSYCHOLOGY CONFERENCE 2026

24 HOURS OF POLITICAL PSYCHOLOGY CONFERENCE 2026

24hpolpsy.univie.ac.at

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Daniel Kovarek @kovarek.bsky.social · Aug 30

no better way to depart from #ecprgc25 than 👀 my paper just published in @eupthejournal.bsky.social! I find localism in an unlikely place & show that people feel more represented when they live in incumbent MEPs' hometowns, using survey data from 🇷🇴🇭🇺🇮🇹🇧🇪 doi.org/10.1177/1465... #Polisky

The effect of MEPs' local ties on perceived representation: Evidence from four EU member states - Daniel Kovarek, 2025

Concerned with the electoral and attitudinal effects of localness, a large literature studies how candidates’ and elected deputies’ local ties shape perceived r...

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Julia Partheymüller @schnizzl.bsky.social · Aug 28

🧪 🗳 New in Scientific Data

"The #AUTNES Online Panel Study 2017–2024: A Dataset of Austrian Voter Attitudes and Behavior”

The new data descriptor offers background on study design & data quality.

➡️ doi.org/10.1038/s415...

📂 Dataset: doi.org/10.11587/HNU...

#OpenScience @aussda.bsky.social

Bence Hamrak @bencehamrak.bsky.social · Aug 27

Post-election cross-sectional surveys from the US show effects that are in the same ballpark as the experimental estimates

Bence Hamrak @bencehamrak.bsky.social · Aug 27

- The latter is likely due to motivated reasoning: losers ignore change in relative group status by outcomes
- Eliciting election scenarios generally increase out-group threat for both winners & losers, but losing only minimally more

Bence Hamrak @bencehamrak.bsky.social · Aug 27

Key findings:
- Elections influence winners but not losers & primarily through in-party gratification + a very modest increase in out-party warmth
- Losers don't dislike opponents more, nor cool on their own party

Bence Hamrak @bencehamrak.bsky.social · Aug 27

Method: 3 survey experiments (N=7,188) simulating 2024 US election outcomes & closeness. Measured in- & out-party feelings before/after.

Bence Hamrak @bencehamrak.bsky.social · Aug 27

See details & results: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Identity after the ballot: How winning and losing impact partisan attachments and affective polarization

How do election outcomes shape partisan affective polarization? Drawing on theories of group identity, I examine how winning or losing elections affec…

www.sciencedirect.com

Bence Hamrak @bencehamrak.bsky.social · Aug 27

Open access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Identity after the ballot: How winning and losing impact partisan attachments and affective polarization

How do election outcomes shape partisan affective polarization? Drawing on theories of group identity, I examine how winning or losing elections affec…

www.sciencedirect.com

Bence Hamrak @bencehamrak.bsky.social · Aug 27

My experiment on election outcomes, partisan identity & affective polarization is now out in @electoralstudies.bsky.social.

Puzzle: From a group ID lens, outcomes could shift both perceived out-party threat & in-group status → ambivalent predictions for affective polarization.

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EPSS @epssnet.bsky.social · Jun 26

🚨 Big News for European Political Science 🚨

We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community.

🔗 epssnet.org

Here’s a thread with everything you need to know.

🧵

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Johanna Rickne @johannarickne.bsky.social · May 9

🚨 REPLICATION REPORT UPDATE: One year ago, a tweet by John Holbein alerted me, @ollefolke.bsky.social, and @jopieboy.bsky.social to a paper with a shocking result about Sweden’s law criminalizing the purchase of sex.🧵

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Daniel Kovarek @kovarek.bsky.social · Mar 27

take a gentle intro course on R @weareceu.bsky.social @methodsnet.bsky.social Summer School with me! I assume zero pre-existing knowledge w/ programming & guarantee that you'll leave Vienna with strong analytical skills and plenty of data viz tricks up your sleeve!

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Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte @turnbulldugarte.com · Mar 19

Who does Spiderman vote for? Who you vote for.

In a new paper w/ @markuswagner.bsky.social we show that people engage in motivated projection of political identities. In the absence of explicit info on politics, individuals rely on valence to infer the politics of others

doi.org/10.1017/psrm...

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Christopher Wratil 🇺🇦 #StandWithUkraine @chriswratil.bsky.social · Mar 17

If you are interested in how to design survey experiments in the social sciences, I am teaching a course on exactly that @methodsnet.bsky.social Vienna summer school at CEU! Early bird discount applies through 26 March 👇. Looking forward to meeting you ☺️

methodsnet.org/course/d01-0...

D01-01AM: Designing Survey Experiments – Methodsnet

Not a Member yet? Check out the long list of benefits here – Student Membership from only €33.00 and FREE for some locations! > Courses > D01-01AM: Design

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Daniel Kovarek @kovarek.bsky.social · Feb 24

if need a break from #BTW25, here's a 📄 on 🇭🇺 TISZA, a new challenger to #Orbán! A genuinely new party, led by a #Fidesz defector is currently leading the polls in #Hungary & has a 🇪🇺 pro-European, knowledgeable, and low trusting electorate. Voters are more pro #Ukraine🇺🇦 + culturally liberal. #Polisky

Elite defection and opposition realignment in Hungary: Respect and Freedom Party (TISZA) in the 2024 European Parliamentary elections

The 2024 European Parliamentary elections yielded an opposition landslide in Hungary. Respect and Freedom (TISZA), a genuinely new party led by a Fidesz defector, emerged as Orbán's unequivocal cha...

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Science Magazine @science.org · Dec 9

Social media posts containing misinformation evoke more moral outrage than posts with trustworthy information, and that outrage facilitates the spread of misinformation, a new Science study finds.

📄: scim.ag/4f6WzRF

Misinformation exploits outrage to spread online

We tested a hypothesis that misinformation exploits outrage to spread online, examining generalizability across multiple platforms, time periods, and classifications of misinformation. Outrage is high...

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Miguel Pereira @miguelpereira.bsky.social · Dec 5

APSR will start inviting replications for a random subset of accepted papers. I really like this as well as the constructive tone around it 👏 (from the latest Notes from the Editors)

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · Dec 3

Why do academic journals have such strict/varied formatting guidelines on first submission? (Beyond length)

Isn’t formatting for a journal, only to be rejected, just a massive unnecessary cost imposed on scientists?

Couldn’t scientists put their time to better use?

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British Journal of Political Science @bjpols.bsky.social · Nov 27

#OpenAccess -

Why Politicians Won't Apologize: Communication Effects in the Aftermath of Sex Scandals - cup.org/498h7ba

- Bence Hamrak, Gabor Simonovits, Alex Rusnak & Ferenc Szucs

#FirstView

British Journal of Political Science open access graphic

Bence Hamrak @bencehamrak.bsky.social · Nov 27

12/ Overall, our findings paint quite a dark picture of citizens' ability or willingness to punish misconduct and incentivize public apologies.

Bence Hamrak @bencehamrak.bsky.social · Nov 27

11/ While voters believe less the cheap signal denials under low levels of scrutiny, when the likelihood of evidence rises, their trust in denials increase. This allows skilled liars to get away in the end.