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by Gijs Schumacher

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- Had some real empty space in my agenda to work on a review about the role of emotions in politics!

- Went to a great talk at the #Hotpoliticslab by Alexandros Giannelis, Ph.D. on genes & politics.

Now time for a beer!
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by Gijs Schumacher

gijsschumacher.bsky.social
Wrapping up the week (week 2)

- got two R&Rs with minor revisions this week. Both about political interest, emotions and identities. So stay tuned for some existing stuff coming up.

- Had a great day with the Challenges to Democracy group. Exciting presentation by Trevor Incerti and a nice diner.
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by Gijs Schumacher

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- Hosted Tago Atsushi in our weekly #Hotpoliticslab seminar with a super interesting talk about physiological responses to war imagery.

- Failed again to get ICT services to let me add students to my Teams folder.

Time for a drink!

by Gijs Schumacher

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- had an inspiring workshop with professionals and scientists working on polarization Perspectieven in Polarisatie community

- Did two big interviews for newspapers about the elections
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by Gijs Schumacher

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- 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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by Gijs Schumacher — Reposted by: Markus Wagner, Matthijs Rooduijn, Claire L. Adida , and 1 more

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Wrapping up the week

- Posted two new (tt) Assistant Professorship position in my department: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies... ... I am chairing this committee, so let me know if you have questions
Vacancy — Assistant Professor in Political Science
The Department of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam invites applications for one and possibly two tenure-track Assistant Professor (Universitair Docent) positions in Political Science w...
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Reposted by: Gijs Schumacher

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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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by Matthijs Rooduijn — Reposted by: Gijs Schumacher, Cas Mudde, Mark J. Brandt , and 18 more

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At the Department of Political Science (University of Amsterdam, @uva-fmg.bsky.social), we are looking for a new Assistant Professor to join our team. Interested? You can find all details and apply here: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies....
Vacancy — Assistant Professor in Political Science
The Department of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam invites applications for one and possibly two tenure-track Assistant Professor (Universitair Docent) positions in Political Science w...
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by Gijs Schumacher

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Mooi interview en alvast heel veel plezier daar. Nog even van Parijs genieten ;)
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🎓 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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Reposted by: Gijs Schumacher, Robert Huber, Tom van der Meer

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I'm very honored to have received the Frances Rosenbluth Best Paper Prize for the best paper published in @cpsjournal.bsky.social in 2024, together with Jonathan Rodden.

Many thanks to the Editorial Board for appreciating our study!

Here is the paper:

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
The Great Global Divider? A Comparison of Urban-Rural Partisan Polarization in Western Democracies - Twan Huijsmans, Jonathan Rodden, 2025
This study is the first to measure urban-rural electoral divides in a way that facilitates comparisons beyond majoritarian democracies of the UK and North Ameri...
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by Tom van der Meer — Reposted by: Gijs Schumacher, Cas Mudde, Robbert Sanderman , and 9 more

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In de eerste weken van de verkiezingscampagne zien we weer te veel voorbeelden waarin peilingen verkeerd gebruikt worden door interviewers, duiders, en journalisten.

Daarom hierbij tien vuistregels om de peilingen wijzer te duiden, en om elkaar op aan te spreken.

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Peilingen duiden: 10 essentiële vuistregels voor duiders - StukRoodVlees
Zetelpeilingen worden vaak misbruikt. Een tiental vuistregels om je publiek niet voor te liegen met non-nieuws.
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by Stuart J. Turnbull‐Dugarte — Reposted by: Gijs Schumacher, Jonathan Portes, Simon Hix , and 60 more

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Radical right accommodation really does not work.

New paper out with this exceptionally talented team
@katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk

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Reposted by: Gijs Schumacher, Mark J. Brandt, Matthijs Rooduijn

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✨ 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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by Gijs Schumacher — Reposted by: Mark J. Brandt

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New paper alert in the field of political neuroscience plus a strong recommendation to follow my brilliant PhD student @gustavocjesus.bsky.social ... such a privilege to work with him.
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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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Reposted by: Gijs Schumacher

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This research was funded by Horizon Europe through the MSCA Doctoral Network (www.ippad.eu) and conducted at the @hotpoliticslab.bsky.social and @ascor.bsky.social. Interested in the intersection of politics, psychology, and neuroscience? Let’s connect!
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Why might this be? a) Partisan identity may be less chronically active in the NL, b) Familiarity and affect toward specific leaders varies across participants, c) Lack of basic visual cues related to group membership, d) Partisanship may be constructed later, or require more political context.
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Politicians’ faces did evoke stronger N170 responses than strangers’ faces, possibly due to affective salience. Yet, we did not observe partisan differences in the P200 or N200 components. This stands in contrast to robust effects reported in studies on racial and minimal group bias.
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Reposted by: Gijs Schumacher, Mark J. Brandt

gustavocjesus.bsky.social
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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...
www.tandfonline.com
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Reposted by: Gijs Schumacher, Justus Uitermark, Matthijs Rooduijn , and 4 more

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🚨 PhD Position at the University of Amsterdam 🚨

Join my team as a computer scientist / computational social scientist working on LLMs, social media, and politics.

We offer freedom, impact, and an inspiring environment at one of Europe's leading universities.

🔗 werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
Vacancy — PhD Position on Improving Social Media Using Large Language Models
The Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) at the University of Amsterdam is inviting applications for a fully funded PhD position in the NWO VIDI project "Improving Social Media Using L...
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Reposted by: Gijs Schumacher

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I am happy to announce the first release of MEXCA (v1.0.0). Developed together with the
@eScienceCenter
MEXCA is a tool for Multimodal Emotional eXpression Capture (with the final A for Amsterdam). You can try out MEXCA here: github.com/mexca/mexca.
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Reposted by: Gijs Schumacher, Jürgen Maier, Markus Wagner , and 1 more

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First paper of my dissertation now out in EJPR with @bnbakker.bsky.social & @gijsschumacher.bsky.social

Can we measure affective polarization in systems with 6, 10, or even more parties without overburdening respondents or compromising validity? We show how.

Paper: doi.org/10.1111/1475...
Establishing the construct and predictive validity of brief measures of affective polarization
Measuring affective polarization, defined as the liking for one's political ingroup and the dislike for political outgroups, poses methodological challenges in multiparty systems: evaluations of seve...
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Reposted by: Gijs Schumacher

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Day 3 of the #ISPPAcademy! We had highly engaging discussions starting with @gijsschumacher.bsky.social's session on the emotions and democratic politics and the cutting-edge research done in the #HotPoliticsLab.

We then continued with ‪@iriszez.bsky.social discussing conspiracy theories.
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by Gijs Schumacher

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Hot Politics Lab at #ispp2025 ... we have something for you basically every time slot, on a variety of different topics
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by Gijs Schumacher

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Zie je graag op de oratie op 17 april
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Zo leuk dat collegas’s @bnbakker.bsky.social @gijsschumacher.bsky.social en @jakobkas.bsky.social dit thema ook hebben omarmd. Stemmen met 16 kan! www.ad.nl/opinie/opini...
Opinie: ‘Vanaf 16 jaar stemmen? De jongere is er klaar voor’
Uit onderzoek blijkt dat jongeren van 16 en 17 jaar net zo verantwoordelijk en geïnformeerd stemmen als oudere kiezers. Geef ze stemrecht, betogen Bert Bakker, Jakob Kasper en Gijs Schumacher.
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by Gijs Schumacher — Reposted by: Gijs Schumacher

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On my way to #ispp2025 in Prague with some excellent news. As of today I have been appointed as Professor of Political Psychology at the Department of Political Science @uva-fmg.bsky.social ... who wants to celebrate tonight in Prague?
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by Gijs Schumacher

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Wow, dat is nog eens impact
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by Gijs Schumacher — Reposted by: Matthijs Rooduijn

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With @bnbakker.bsky.social and @mrooduijn.bsky.social I am going to conduct a large intervention study in the Netherlands to reduce polarization and strengthen pro-democratic attitudes. Do you have an idea (plus budget) for an additional intervention? Do reach out! stukroodvlees.nl/input-gezoch...
Megastudy testing 25 treatments to reduce antidemocratic attitudes and partisan animosity
Scholars warn that partisan divisions in the mass public threaten the health of American democracy. We conducted a megastudy (n = 32,059 participants) testing 25 treatments designed by academics and p...
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Reposted by: Gijs Schumacher, Bram Spruyt

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De democratie wankelt. In de VS, maar ook dichter bij huis. Wat helpt tegen polarisatie? Wat versterkt steun voor de democratie? ‪@bnbakker.bsky.social, @gijsschumacher.bsky.social‬ en ik testen allerlei interventies. Heb jij een goed idee? Laat het ons weten!
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Input gezocht: welke interventies versterken de democratie in Nederland? - StukRoodVlees
De zorgen over onze democratie nemen toe. Veel Nederlanders ervaren een groeiende polarisatie en ergeren zich aan de toon van het politieke debat. Tegelijkertijd zien we elke dag hoe kwetsbaar de demo...
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