Gijs Schumacher

Oh dankjewel. Wetenschap is een team effort, dus ik raad je ook aan collega's @bnbakker.bsky.social @mrooduijn.bsky.social en vele anderen uit het Hot Politics Lab te volgen (indien je dat nog niet doet).

Dat speelt ook zeker een rol.

Nog 2 punten:
- In het experimentele onderzoek dat ik eerder noem is de voorkeur voor positieve emotie over negatieve emotie minder sterk bij rechts dan bij links.
- er zit wel degelijk positieve emotionele aspecten in communicatie Wilders (denk humor, Milders, "De agenda voor hoop en optimisme")

Persoonlijkheid en de twee routes die steun voor Trump verklaren - StukRoodVlees Wordt Donald Trump volgende week gekozen tot President van de Verenigde Staten? Eerst is de kiezer aan de beurt. Maar wie is de kiezer die op Trump stemt? Talloze verklaringen richten zich op een enke...

Specifiek over reden om radicaal-rechts populistisch te stemmen heb ik het volgende geschreven:
- stukroodvlees.nl/persoonlijkh...
- doi.org/10.1086/710014 [studie met Nederlandse data]
- doi.org/10.1111/1475... [ook Nederlandse data] [2/3]

Ook in antwoord op: ‪‪@jebs1negen64.bsky.social
- De +/- 10 zetels die D66 afgelopen weken steeg in peilingen is een campagne-effect waar de positieve emotionele campagne van D66 een positieve bijdrage aan levert (mijn interpretatie)
- Maar er zijn ook andere reden om te stemmen. [1/3]

Ook experimenteel onderzoek dat ik naar emoties heb verricht laat zien dat positieve emoties uitstekend werken. Een goede campagne is natuurlijk wel meer dan een paar positieve woorden te gebruiken. Het nonverbale is net zo belangrijk. [2/2]

Dat de positieve campagne van D66 gewerkt heeft is eigenlijk niet verrassend. Kiezers van links tot rechts hebben de voorkeur dat hun partijleider positieve emoties gebruikt en minder negatieve emoties. De data hieronder uit drie surveys laten dit zien (grootste partijen op dat moment). [1/2]

Goed stuk Merijn. Het is een merkwaardige kronkel waar links zich in draait: anti-populist, dus pro-systeem, pro-elite. Gek als oppositie, vanuit historisch perspectief en campagne overwegingen.

- 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!

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.

- 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!

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

- Did two big interviews for newspapers about the elections

- 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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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....

Mooi interview en alvast heel veel plezier daar. Nog even van Parijs genieten ;)

🎓 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/...

And deservedly so, this is such a great paper. Super proud of the incredibly talented @twanhuijsmans.bsky.social

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.

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.

stukroodvlees.nl/peilingen-du...

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

doi.org/10.31235/osf...

✨ 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 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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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.

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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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-...

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...

🚨 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...

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.

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