Associate Professor @ University of Amsterdam. Research: what makes authorities legitimate, democratic checks & balances. Co-director of @HotPoliticsLab
It's been more than 2 years that Ukrainians defend their & Europe's territory against the Russian aggression. While their resources are drained and sacrifices huge, they can't be let down by their allies now. Our research on the resistance of Ukrainians ⬇️
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In this populist moment, has the public turned against science? @M_B_Petersen & colleagues:
"populists not only listen to expertise but also respond to the same qualities of expert advice as others, even if their skepticism is higher." journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
ALT Do Populists Listen to Expertise? A Five-Country Study of Authority, Arguments, and Expert Sources. Across diverse policy domains, there is broad concern about whether trust in science and expertise has eroded during the past decade. Using quota-based surveys with over 7,500 respondents across five countries and preregistered vignette experiments, we investigate what persuades populists and non-populists to accept expert advice. We find first that populism is associated with less willingness to accept expert advice, yet with variation between countries and topics. Second, we find both populists and non-populists are similarly impacted by stronger arguments. Finally, we show that populists are more likely to judge advice as poorly reasoned and perceive it as politically biased. A mediation analysis showed that the relationship between populism and advice acceptance was nearly completely mediated by these judgments. Our study indicates that populists not only listen to expertise but also
Today @HotPoliticsLab we will zoom in on the relation between belief in conspiracy theories & political attitudes with our next great guest @PantaziMyrto Join us at 15:00 in REC-C10.20 | online. If you missed a talk you wish you could attend have a look at youtube.com/@hotpoliticslab3…
Don't forget to join us today @HotPoliticsLab We've got excellent PhD talks lined up on misinformation, threats, and validating constructs. All we need for an exciting Friday session!
Today @HotPoliticsLab Amadine Lerusse will present her exciting research on public managers' response to negative performance feedback using eye-tracking method. Join us in REC C10.20 or online!
Under what conditions do individuals support armed humanitarian intervention (AHI) in situations where mass atrocities are ongoing? N. Kubalová, @EamonAloyo & @HMazepus find that support increases when it is authorized by the UNSC but it is not affected by the chance of success.
In an op-ed in today’s @guardian I examine where the success of the far right comes from. My main claim is that neither parties nor voters have fundamentally changed. Instead, they have been driven into each others’ arms. #thread 1/11
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Do not miss my latest interview! We talk about the election winner-loser gap and subjective wellbeing, and citizens’ support for democratic checks and balances.
Pride tracks how much audiences value actions closely, specifically (not other positive emotions), across industrial and small scale societies!
They're also related between societies!
Really cool work by @dsznycer#hbes2024
Big day at #HBES2024 for UCLA Social Minds Lab pals!
@jordan_w_moon gives his 🤩POSTDOC AWARD-NOMINATED🤩talk on abortion attitudes!
@DavidPinsof tackles HUMOR LAUGHTER from an adaptationist perspective!
@dsznycer leads the way on PRIDE w data from 10 small-scale societies!
"This demystified psychology. Mysterious talents or serendipity are not required. Now anyone can study how minds work."
-@florianvl (shorturl.at/zJST8)
I'm delighted to announce a new book coming out this month: The Oxford Handbook of Evolution & the Emotions (TOHEE)!
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This book took several years and a whole LOT of teamwork to put together.
It's an interdisciplinary, cross-cultural effort. 👇🧵
Unusual pre-print:
*Democratic mind research proposal*
It proposes an interdisciplinary research agenda to study political intuitions that constrain and empower political authorities.
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2. In the spirit of open science, I share the ideas I developed and am happy to receive comments & discuss them should they be interesting to anyone. Currently, in my spare time I work on the anthropological part of the proposal.
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