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Elise Storme @elisestorme.bsky.social · 6d

🚀🎉 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?

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From Marginalized to Mainstream? An International Comparative Analysis of Gender Differences in Social Media Adoption and Activity by Politicians in Non-Election Times - Elise Storme, 2025

Traditional media and party gatekeepers are found to restrict women's visibility and influence in politics. Social media, however, is seen as a potential m...

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Jochem Vanagt @jochemvanagt.bsky.social · 7d

🚨 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...

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Gijs Schumacher @gijsschumacher.bsky.social · 12d

- 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...

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Delaney Peterson @delaneypeterson.bsky.social · 13d

This research was conducted with @gijsschumacher.bsky.social, @fhopp.bsky.social and @bnbakker.bsky.social and was funded by the NWO, the ERC and the University of Amsterdam. (9/9)

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Delaney Peterson @delaneypeterson.bsky.social · 13d

Politics may be responsible for an emerging category of mental health problems, one that traditional MH measures neglect to capture. As such, domain-specific PMH is a way to name the toll politics is taking on individuals well-being. (8/9)

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Delaney Peterson @delaneypeterson.bsky.social · 13d

Our results imply domain-specificity is needed to properly identify the extent to which mental health is connected to engagement with politics and who may be the most affected and importantly, that PMH and MH have more far reaching political consequences than previously assumed. (7/9)

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Delaney Peterson @delaneypeterson.bsky.social · 13d

Second, PMH and MH demonstrate different patterns of association: PMH explains variance above and beyond MH when it comes to political attitudes and behaviors. MH explains variance above and beyond PMH when it comes to internal psychological states. (6/9)

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Delaney Peterson @delaneypeterson.bsky.social · 13d

Additionally, our exploratory findings suggest that first, the influence of one form of mental health can be moderated by the level of the other, highlighting conditional relationships for some outcomes but independent effects for others.(5/9)

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Delaney Peterson @delaneypeterson.bsky.social · 13d

Tests of predictive validity demonstrate while both PMH and MH have a range of political correlates, from political participation to external political efficacy, it is PMH that has stronger and broader negative political associations.(4/9)

This plots the regression estimates with pre-registered 90% confidence intervals per political correlate. The Y axis plots PMH and MH per wave. The X axis plots the estimates. A negative coefficient indicates poor PMH/MH, positive coefficients indicates good PMH/MH. Orange circles represent PMH. Green triangles represent MH. Shaded areas mark the range between b=-.11 and b=.11 (Wave 3) and b=-.13 and b=.13 (Wave 1) which represents the zone of population-level effects that we are underpowered to detect reliably (power=.80, alpha=.10).

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Delaney Peterson @delaneypeterson.bsky.social · 13d

To investigate this, we test and compare the construct and predictive validity of domain-specific PMH and MH in a study conducted in the Dutch population. Through our tests of construct validity, we find PMH is an independent construct to MH. (3/9)

This plots the loadings from a graded response model (N=766) for our PMH and MH items. The panel to the left, plots the loadings for dimension 1, and consists of the 8 PMH items (in green). The panel to the right, plots the loadings for dimension 2, and consists of the 8 MH items (in orange).

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Delaney Peterson @delaneypeterson.bsky.social · 13d

The literature on MH and politics spans various disorders and political outcomes. Recently, there has been a turn to domain-specific concepts (i.e., political health, political anxiety). What would domain-specificity contribute to our understanding of politics beyond traditional MH measures? (2/9)

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Delaney Peterson @delaneypeterson.bsky.social · 13d

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...

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Hot Politics Lab @hotpoliticslab.bsky.social · 14d

🎓 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!

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Hot Politics Lab @hotpoliticslab.bsky.social · 21d

🎓 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/...

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Hot Politics Lab @hotpoliticslab.bsky.social · 28d

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/...

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Hot Politics Lab @hotpoliticslab.bsky.social · Sep 1

✨ 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!

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Linda Bos 🟥 @lindabos.bsky.social · Aug 30

📣 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

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Matthijs Rooduijn @mrooduijn.bsky.social · Aug 29

"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-...

Polarisatie is niet altijd slecht voor de democratie - StukRoodVlees

Je hoort het tegenwoordig overal: polarisatie vreet aan onze democratie. Maatschappelijke polarisatie staat al jaren in de top tien van het Global Risk Report van het WEF (in 2025 op plek 4 van de kor...

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Gustavo Couto de Jesus @gustavocjesus.bsky.social · Aug 27

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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-...

An ERP-study on the extent to which partisanship conditions the early processing of politicians’ faces

Partisanship has been associated with various cognitive biases. These findings are primarily based on self-reports and task performance and less on measures of neural activity. We reviewed the lite...

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Linda Bos 🟥 @lindabos.bsky.social · Jul 23

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.

Linda Bos 🟥 @lindabos.bsky.social · Jul 23

🎓 Help jonge onderzoekers van de UvA! Vul deze vragenlijst in over politieke opvattingen rond de verkiezingen van 29 oktober. Delen = helpen! 🙌
👉 uva.fra1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Pilotstudie voor de Dutch Election Monitor Survey | UvA Qualtrics Survey

Pilotstudie voor de Dutch Election Monitor Survey 2025 - ASCoR, UvA

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Vivien Fabry @vivifabrien.bsky.social · Jul 14

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

See you there ✨

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American Political Science Review @apsrjournal.bsky.social · Jun 20

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

On Political Misogyny | American Political Science Review | Cambridge Core

On Political Misogyny - Volume 119 Issue 2

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Alessandro Nai @alessandronai.bsky.social · Jun 16

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 👇

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Gijs Schumacher @gijsschumacher.bsky.social · Jun 5

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]

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Quentin Bruneau @qbruneau.bsky.social · Jan 30

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!

Historical IR Section (ISA) @hist-isanet.bsky.social · Jan 29

The @isanet.bsky.social Convention is upon us; time for a happy countdown: Congratulations to @qbruneau.bsky.social for the 2025 Guicciardini Prize for Best Book in Historical IR for his masterful book, "States and the Masters of Capital" published with @columbiaup.bsky.social! Stay tuned for more..

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