🎉 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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🚀 dashboardr is out!
An #rstats package for building interactive dashboards with tidyverse-style syntax.
Launched with a fun hackathon at @ascor.bsky.social (🍕 included).
📦: favstats.github.io/dashboardr/
Big thanks to the dashboardr team, Digicomlab, and @vivifabrien.bsky.social for the logo 🎨
Stop Formatting Before the Desk Reject
Proposal from @bnbakker.bsky.social and @jakobkas.bsky.social for a staged submission process when submitting manuscripts to academic journals.
#AcademicSky #PhDSky #AcWri
A few more photo archives I'd love to post but the picture count limit didn't allow me to do so in my last post.
It was a lovely day and it was really nice talking with so many people sharing keen interests in this young but growing field.
#politicalneuroscience #neuroscience #cognition #workshop
Recap NEUROPOL Workshop 🧠
Last Friday, Jan 23, @hotpoliticslab.bsky.social (University of Amsterdam) hosted the event “Turning Politics Inside-Out” to bridge internal and ecological validity in political neuroscience research.
Here are some recaps of this fun and interdisciplinary day we’ve had.
Come join the discussion, synthesis, and agenda-setting!
🗓️ Date: Fri, Jan 23rd
📍 Location: UvA, Roeterseiland, B9.22
🥂 Lunch and drinks provided!
Deadline to register: Jan 16th
🔗Register: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/5Hu4WB0G4v
#PoliticalNeuroscience #Cognition #ResearchAgenda #UvA #HotPoliticsLab
🧠 Keynote: Marte Otten & Christin Scholz (UvA) on the Neuroscientist's Roadmap.
📊 Data Blitzes: Current research by Social Neuroscientists concerning motivated reasoning, group bias, trust, and more.
💬 Roundtable: Help build the concrete research agenda for the field!
Turning Politics Inside-Out: NEUROPOL Workshop! 🧠🗳️
Amsterdam, January 23rd
We're discussing the core challenge of Political Neuroscience: How do we bridge the gap between detailed cognitive mechanisms (high internal validity) and real-world political behavior (high ecological validity)?
✨ 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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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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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-...
