Professor of Political Psychology @UvA_Amsterdam
Director @Hotpoliticslab
Blog @stukroodvlees
Website: gijsschumacher.nl
- 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")
- stukroodvlees.nl/persoonlijkh...
- doi.org/10.1086/710014 [studie met Nederlandse data]
- doi.org/10.1111/1475... [ook Nederlandse data] [2/3]
- 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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- Went to a great talk at the #Hotpoliticslab by Alexandros Giannelis, Ph.D. on genes & politics.
Now time for a beer!
- 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.
- Failed again to get ICT services to let me add students to my Teams folder.
Time for a drink!
- Did two big interviews for newspapers about the elections
On politics and mental health: osf.io/preprints/ps...
On politicians’ emotional appeals and voting: osf.io/preprints/ps...
- 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
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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...
Reposted by Cas Mudde, Gijs Schumacher, Mark J. Brandt , and 18 more Cas Mudde, Gijs Schumacher, Mark J. Brandt, Kai Arzheimer, Catherine E. De Vries, Simon Otjes, Ingo Rohlfing, Tom van der Meer, Lasse Thomassen, Beatriz Gallardo Paúls, Alessandro Nai, Martin Kreidl, Damian Trilling, Rense Corten, Tom Louwerse, Daphne Halikiopoulou, Joost van Spanje, Claudia Landwehr, Jeroen Van Bouwel, Maria Sobolewska, David Darmofal
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📍 Location: Common Room (REC-B9.22)
💻 Or join us online 👉 teams.microsoft.com/dl/launcher/...
Reposted by Gijs Schumacher, Robert Huber, Tom van der Meer
Many thanks to the Editorial Board for appreciating our study!
Here is the paper:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Daarom hierbij tien vuistregels om de peilingen wijzer te duiden, en om elkaar op aan te spreken.
stukroodvlees.nl/peilingen-du...
Reposted by Jonathan Portes, Simon Hix, Ben H. Ansell , and 59 more Jonathan Portes, Simon Hix, Ben H. Ansell, Jesper Strömbäck, John Drury, Will Jennings, Sara B. Hobolt, Brendan Nyhan, Gijs Schumacher, Scott L. Greer, Steve Peers, Ruth Dassonneville, Tim Bale, Dave O’Brien, Kai Arzheimer, Catherine E. De Vries, Ian Hall, Alexander Wuttke, Vincent Tiberj, Justin H. Kirkland, Lesley A. Hall, Efrén O. Pérez, Chris Hanretty, Fabián Muniesa, Jacob Montgomery, Paul E. Johnson, Alan Lester, Mary Corcoran, Erika Franklin Fowler, Michelle Everson, Ben Worthy, Meri Koivusalo, Aaron Sojourner, Toby S. James, Holger Nehring, Nazita Lajevardi, Simon Glendinning, Tom Griffin, Alessandro Nai, Markus Klein, Marina Costa Lobo, Jonathan Birch, Matthijs Rooduijn, Ben Rosamond, Glen O’Hara, David Murakami Wood, Christian Fisch, Paul Nightingale, Stuart White, Werner Krause, Simon Usherwood, Toni Haastrup, Greg Linden, Federica Genovese, Tom Louwerse, Daphne Halikiopoulou, Samuel Coavoux, Ewan McGaughey, Nick Clarke, Björn Bremer, Southern Africa, David Darmofal
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...
Reposted by Gijs Schumacher, Mark J. Brandt, Matthijs Rooduijn
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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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-...
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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.
Reposted by Gijs Schumacher, Mark J. Brandt
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-...
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...
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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.
Reposted by Gijs Schumacher, Jürgen Maier, Markus Wagner , and 1 more Gijs Schumacher, Jürgen Maier, Markus Wagner, M Josep
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...
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We then continued with @iriszez.bsky.social discussing conspiracy theories.