PhD Candidate Jakob Kasper is a third-year PhD candidate at the Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR), affiliated with the MSCA doctoral network ‘Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Politics of Adolescence and Democracy’ and the HotPoliticsLab. His work centers on affective polarization. He investigates how it can be measured in multi-party systems by focusing on subsets…

PhD Candidate Doris Bukman is a PhD candidate at the Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR). Her research focuses on the consequences of ownership concentration for  journalists, audiences and journalism generally, with a focus on the Netherlands. She is especially interested in how journalists negotiate and understand their own autonomy while navigating market pressures. In…

PhD Candidate Gustavo C. Jesus is a PhD candidate at ASCoR and the Hot Politics Lab, University of Amsterdam. His research examines the neural and affective foundations of partisan bias, combining psychophysiological and behavioral methods to investigate how partisanship shapes cognitive–affective responses to political information. Recent work tested whether out‑group politicians’ faces elicit enhanced preconscious…

PhD Candidate Teresa Valle is a PhD candidate at the Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR) at the University of Amsterdam. She is working on the project “Visual Politics and the Emergence of Angry Publics” under the supervision of dr. Ulrike Klinger, dr. Linda Bos, and dr. Alessandro Nai. Her research focuses on visual political…

PhD Candidate Ambika is a PhD cadidate at ASCoR. Her research focuses on citizen corrections and building resilience to combat misinformation. Specifically, the project examines the psychological motivations, social dynamics and contextual factors that influence citizens willingness to correct misinformation online. She holds a Research Master’s Degree in Communication Science from the University of Amsterdam…

PhD Candidate Michael van Straelen is a PhD candidate at the Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR), University of Amsterdam. His research focuses on the political use of generative AI. Specifically, it centres around the way individuals engage in political conversations with generative AI tools, how they perceive these conversations and generative AI at large,…

PhD Candidate Yara F. Mijnhout is a PhD candidate in Political Communication at the Amsterdam School of Communication Research. In her research, she investigates how media shape public understanding of political corruption across Europe. Her research focuses on three themes: how corruption is constructed in news discourse, how media reporting influences citizens’ perceptions and political…

PhD Candidate Annamijn Beijeman is a PhD Candidate at the Political Communication & Journalism program group of the Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR), University of Amsterdam. She works on the project “See it; say it; sorted. Affective polarization among social groups in the Netherlands” under the supervision of dr. Rachid Azrout, dr. Knut De…

PhD Candidate Ellen Linnert is a PhD candidate at the Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR), University of Amsterdam. Her research focuses on threat perceptions of misinformation and their connection to public discourse and individual-level biases. Specifically, her PhD project explores the discrepancy between salient threat frames and misinformation perceptions on the one hand and…

PhD Candidate Henrik Pröpper is a PhD candidate at the Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR). As part of the Amsterdam Morality Lab, his work is interdisciplinary, found at the intersection of moral language, political communication, and foreign affairs. His dissertation explores the use and misuse of moral rhetoric, at the United Nations, and in…