Vorurteile unter wissenschaftlicher Lupe Das ERC-geförderte Projekt PARTISAN untersucht, wie politische Vorurteile und Stereotype Konflikte verstärken - von der Familie bis ins Berufsleben. Die Studie liefert wichtige Erkenntnisse, die auch ...

Vorurteile unter wissenschaftlicher Lupe 🔍
Das ERC-geförderte Projekt PARTISAN untersucht, wie politische Vorurteile & Stereotype Konflikte verstärken - von Familie bis ins Berufsleben. Die Studie liefert Erkenntnisse, die für Politiker*innen, NGOs & die politische Öffentlichkeit relevant sind. 🧑‍🔬 ⤵️

Are you a policymaker, teacher, practitioner, academic in political science, psychology, education or related field? We’re inviting experts to complete a short survey on youth political participation: tinyurl.com/ywnseae3

For every completion, we’ll donate €1.20 to UNICEF. Please share!

2 two-year postdocs on children’s political socialization at Aarhus University - Vacancy at Aarhus University Vacancy at Department of Political Science, Aarhus University

🔥 POSTDOC POSITIONS ON CHILDREN'S POLITICAL SOCIALIZATION 🔥

Wanna understand young people's beliefs about political leadership, politics, and power? Then this is your chance! I'm looking for two 2-year postdocs to join my ERC-funded research project @au.dk
international.au.dk/about/profil...

Congrats!! 🥳

Do ordinary Republicans and Democrats really avoid each other in everyday life? In a new working paper with Delia Baldassarri, we present descriptive and experimental evidence to challenge the view that partisanship drives the formation of social relationships.

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Thanks and thanks for sharing your paper! Indeed, it looks like these findings are very much in line, looking forward to reading it!

I don't know if THE expert yet but I'm working on it 😅🙏

Thanks to all the colleagues and conference audiences who provided thoughtful feedback on earlier versions of this paper @bnbakker.bsky.social @versteegenluca.bsky.social @robertvidigal.bsky.social @markuswagner.bsky.social, and former and current members of the @hotpoliticslab.bsky.social

➡️ Emotional involvement in politics isn’t just a by-product of being informed. It’s about feeling invested and feeling confident.

For civic education, this means that building interest & confidence matters, while at the same time confidence without knowledge risks misdirected anger.

Using 3 waves of the ANES + pre-registered experimental studies in 🇳🇱 & 🇺🇸 we show that:

❌ Knowledge is weakly or inconsistently related to emotions
✅ Interest strongly predicts all emotions
✅ Confidence-in-knowledge strongly predicts anger

Lowering confidence experimentally reduces anger

Past work suggests that political sophisticates, those who are interested and know more about politics, are more emotionally engaged. But recent work on misinformation and overconfidence raises doubts.

👉 We ask: Which component of “political sophistication” actually drives emotional engagement?

Disentangling the Sophistication-Emotion Link: Political Interest and Confidence-in-Knowledge, but not Knowledge, Drive Emotional Responses - Political Behavior Why do some people feel stronger emotions about politics than others? Past work suggests that political sophistication, consisting of knowledge and interest, is related to feeling strong emotions abou...

🎉 New paper out in Political Behavior (with @gijsschumacher.bsky.social & @mrooduijn.bsky.social)

Why do some people feel stronger emotions about politics than others?
💡Not political knowledge, but interest and confidence-in-knowledge drive emotional engagement.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Nine UvA researchers receive ERC Consolidator Grants The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded Consolidator Grants to nine UvA researchers. The laureates are: Thijs Bol, Jaron Harambam, Eirini Karyotaki, Patty Leijten, Dora Matzke, Matthijs Roodui...

With my project IMMERSE I investigate whether immersive narrative interventions (storytelling, live theatre, video games and virtual reality) can strengthen support for liberal democracy by engaging people more deeply than conventional communication. See: www.uva.nl/en/content/n... 2/2

Yaaay! Congrats Matthijs!!! What an awesome project, can't wait to see where you will take this! 🤩

🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳 congrats!!!!!!

Im Oktober erschien in den Salzburger Nachrichten (@sn.at) ein Artikel von @irisbonavida.bsky.social zu personalisierter Onlinewerbung mit Kommentaren von mir. Darin verweise ich auf aktuelle Forschung von Kolleg*innen sowie auf Ergebnisse meines eigenen Experiments: doi.org/10.1177/1940...

🚨 Job Alert! Postdoc in POLITICAL TEXT ANALYSIS in the MULTIREP project

You do quant text analysis? You are interested in political representation? Enjoy working in teams? Would like to live in a great city? Consider joining us in Vienna!

⏱️ Apply by 15/12/2025

wratil.eu/files/MULTIR...

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🚨 New piece out at @thejop.bsky.social w awesome @cvargiu.bsky.social & D Garzia

If incivility means breaking norms, & norms are person- and context-dependent, *does incivility even exist*?

In the stage-2 registered report we investigate what drives perceptions of incivility

tinyurl.com/4h5u4y8y

Migrant Electoral Rights Dataset (1960-2020)

📊 Link to dataset: hdl.handle.net/1814/93661

📕 Link to codebook: cadmus.eui.eu/server/api/c...

💼 Link to 400 page documentation: cadmus.eui.eu/server/api/c...

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

✨ 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!

New publication, out in Political Analysis:

There is an increasing array of tools to measure facets of morality in political language. But while they ostensibly measure the same concept, do they actually?

I and @fhopp.bsky.social set out to see what happens.

Congrats!🎉

Now in an issue @psrm.bsky.social: I show that the 🇩🇰 Social Democrats could have won policy support for a pro-immigrant platform if their messaging were framed in moral terms. Findings provide a central corrective to the popular notion that the Social Democrats were destined to go anti-immigrant 👇🏻

Knowing without knowing: how false confidence shapes the world This Humanities and Social Sciences Communications collection explores the mechanisms and impact of false or misplaced confidence, and how it shapes the ...

Call for Papers: "Knowing Without Knowing: How False Confidence Shapes the World"

🗓️ Deadline: 23.4.2026
🔗 www.nature.com/collections/...

Co-Edited with: M. Adamus, S. Chen

#Misinformation #ConspiracyBeliefs #Polarization #ScienceDenial #Overconfidence 🧪

🔄 Help us spread the word!

24 HOURS OF POLITICAL PSYCHOLOGY CONFERENCE 2026 24 HOURS OF POLITICAL PSYCHOLOGY CONFERENCE 2026

PSA: If you're currently in Prague for #ISPP2025, you might also like joining the 24 Hours of Political Psychology in Vienna in February!
No conference fee, always worth a trip! Approach me with any questions 😊
Submissions are open until the end of September: 24hpolpsy.univie.ac.at #24hpolpsy2026

Congrats again!! Looking forward to celebrating soon in Prague!! 🥳

The schedule of the presenters from the EPSA2025

From 26 to 28 June 2025, the 15th Annual Conference of the European Political Science Association will take place in Madrid, Spain. Many of our colleagues will attend the conference and present their research. #EPSA2025. The presenters are: 🧵 1/3

Proportion of Papers by Year and Team Type

Excited to kick off #EPSA2025 on Day 1, Panel 1! 🎉

I’ll present my co-authored research with @michaelimre.bsky.social on 50 years of gender representation in political science publications. We analyze nearly 100,000 articles across 72 journals to uncover long-term trends. 🔍

@epsanet.bsky.social

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