New publication by Andreas Goldberg and Claes de Vreese in Acta Politica, titled “The dynamics of EU attitudes and their effects on voting.“ Read more about this study in the abstract below, or click on this link. Abstract: In referendums on issues of European integration, it is often unclear how important attitudes toward Europe are and whether these attitudes change…
New publication by Alessandro Nai in European Political Science, titled “Disagreeable narcissists, extroverted psychopaths, and elections. A new dataset to measure the personality of candidates worldwide.“ Read more about this study in the abstract below, or click on this link. Abstract: Scholars pay increasing attention to the personality of candidates. However, systematic and comparative data across different countries and electoral…
New publication by Mark Boukes in Political Communication, titled “Agenda-setting with satire: How political satire increased TTIP’s saliency on the public, media, and political agenda“. Read more about this study in the abstract below, or click on this link. Abstract: Agenda-setting has mostly been investigated as the cognitive process set in motion by the salience of political issues in the…
Bert Bakker presents and discusses the Mobile Lab at the Department of Psychology of the University of Amsterdam. Judith Möller participates in a workshop on methods in computational social science, held at the Center for Advanced Internet Studies in Bochum, Germany. Andreas Schuck teaches a seminar on Media and Public Opinion at the University of Bern/SUI. Tom Dobber presents his research at the…
New publication by Tom Powell, co-authored by Hajo Boomgaarden, Knut De Swert and Claes de Vreese in Media Psychology, titled “Framing fast and slow: a dual processing account of multimodal framing effects.” Read more about this study in the abstract below, or click on this link. Abstract: Human reasoning can be characterized by a continuum anchored by two extremes: fast, automatic,…
New publication by Bert Bakker and Yph Lelkes in Journal of Politics! Read the abstract of “Selling ourselves short. How abbreviated measures of personality change the way we think about personality and politics” below: Abstract: Political scientists who study the interplay between personality and politics overwhelmingly rely on short personality scales. We explore whether the length of the employed personality…
At the business meetings of the ICA and APSA Political Communication divisions, Claes de Vreese was awarded the David Swanson Career Achievement Award. It recognizes “distinguished and sustained contributions to the field as planners, editors, and leaders and in roles that require time and energy, innovation, and personal dedication.” The award honors David Swanson, one of the founders of Political Communication who…