We asked participants how close they felt towards various groups of refugees and found that individuals with higher levels of empathy (empathic concern and perspective taking) perceived others as closer.

🚨 New Open Access Publiation! Under the lead of @ronjademel.bsky.social , David Schieferdecker, @hannaschwander.bsky.social , Swen Hutter, Jule Specht and I investigated the role of empathy on attitudes towards refugees and ingroup-outgroup dynamics

For this study, we developed a measure of COVID-19 conspiracy beliefs with three items. It was implemented in a panel wave in summer/ fall 2020, and is available in the standard edition of the GESIS Panel.

📢 New Publication: @jedinger.bsky.social and I have explored the relationshop between need for closure, political trust and COVID conspiracy beliefs using data from the @gesis-panel.bsky.social . Open access: www.frontiersin.org/journals/soc...

New Publication with Oscar W. Gabriel, @maierjuergen.bsky.social and Anna-Maria Renner in "emotions in politics and society" (Nomos book series). Our book reflects the work of a decade and is the final publication of our DFG project on emotions in politics: t.co/sGbKuXUGYNew polpsy Germanpoliticsky

New Publication in IJPOR with Ronja Demel, David Schieferdecker, @hannaschwander.bsky.social , Swen Hutter and Jule Specht

Shift in Public Opinion Formations on Defense, Energy, and Migration: The Case of Russia’s War Against Ukraine
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@sabrinajmayer.bsky.social and I are organising a panel on "Emotions and Electoral Behaviour" for the #DVPW Kongress in 2024 & are looking for your contributions!

Submit your paper abstracts until 31 October: meine.dvpw.de/einreichungen/ (you need to register first)