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Gijs Schumacher
@gijsschumacher.bsky.social

Professor of Political Psychology @UvA_Amsterdam
Director @Hotpoliticslab
Blog @stukroodvlees
Website: gijsschumacher.nl

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📢♀️ 'Resilience in Action: A Toolkit for Feminist Strategies in Times of Backlash' is out now!

🧰⚒️ Free to use and share. May this support many of you in pushing back against backlash.

💯⚡Proud of the Push*Back*Lash team @aissr.bsky.social

⬇️👇Download here #Toolkit2
pushbacklash.eu/dissemination/
Push Back Lash - Dissemination
Cartoons You can browse and download each episode of our Cartoon Series: Let’s Design Equality Together here. Cartoons and supporting materials are available in English and an additional language depe...
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Super mooi nieuws. Veel plezier

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Fantastic news! Congratulations 🥳
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
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...
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🎓 This Friday (12.12), we are hosting the final session of 2025! Jon Roozenbeek will be our guest at the #HotPoliticsLab, presenting his work on the online manipulation economy.

📍 Location: Common Room (REC-B9.22)
💻 Or join us online 👉 teams.microsoft.com/dl/launcher/...

See you on Friday!
Excited to share a new preprint with @bnbakker.bsky.social, @ylelkes.bsky.social & @gijsschumacher.bsky.social!

doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Affective polarization research focuses almost exclusively on valence, despite affect having at least two core dimensions. We show that emotional arousal matters!
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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")

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]
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...
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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]

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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...
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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...
werkenbij.uva.nl

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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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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...
werkenbij.uva.nl

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/...
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...
journals.sagepub.com
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...
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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✨ 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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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!