Larissa Knöchelmann
@lknochelmann.bsky.social
Post-Doc in Political Psychology @humboldtuni.bsky.social
Einstein Research Unit "Coping with Affective Polarization"
Studying intellectual humility and other personality characteristics in the context of political polarization
Einstein Research Unit "Coping with Affective Polarization"
Studying intellectual humility and other personality characteristics in the context of political polarization
🔓 Open access paper here: doi.org/10.1177/1948...
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January 30, 2026 at 10:16 AM
🔓 Open access paper here: doi.org/10.1177/1948...
📈 Extraversion, openness, and empathy positively predicted both benevolent and activist engagement
📉 Conscientiousness showed negative effects on both forms of engagement
⏳Effects were very stable over time
📉 Conscientiousness showed negative effects on both forms of engagement
⏳Effects were very stable over time
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January 30, 2026 at 10:16 AM
📈 Extraversion, openness, and empathy positively predicted both benevolent and activist engagement
📉 Conscientiousness showed negative effects on both forms of engagement
⏳Effects were very stable over time
📉 Conscientiousness showed negative effects on both forms of engagement
⏳Effects were very stable over time
🤝Both political engagement (e.g., demonstrating) as well as benevolent engagement (e.g., volunteering, housing refugees) were widespread among the German population
👥 The Big Five and trait empathy significantly predicted who became engaged, above and beyond sociodemographic variables
👥 The Big Five and trait empathy significantly predicted who became engaged, above and beyond sociodemographic variables
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January 30, 2026 at 10:16 AM
🤝Both political engagement (e.g., demonstrating) as well as benevolent engagement (e.g., volunteering, housing refugees) were widespread among the German population
👥 The Big Five and trait empathy significantly predicted who became engaged, above and beyond sociodemographic variables
👥 The Big Five and trait empathy significantly predicted who became engaged, above and beyond sociodemographic variables
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December 1, 2025 at 10:43 AM
@daniel-balinhas.bsky.social wrote a nice piece how to make the polarization research better by adding context info and power difference considerations: doi.org/10.1111/spc3...
Bringing critical social psychology to the study of political polarization
The study of political polarization, in both its ideological and its affective expressions, has garnered significantly more interest over the last years. But despite recent research on the conceptual....
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September 20, 2025 at 8:05 PM
@daniel-balinhas.bsky.social wrote a nice piece how to make the polarization research better by adding context info and power difference considerations: doi.org/10.1111/spc3...
That sounds great, I'll take a look! Did you only investigate one least liked party or did you also allow for several outparties per participant?
August 4, 2025 at 1:18 PM
That sounds great, I'll take a look! Did you only investigate one least liked party or did you also allow for several outparties per participant?