PostDoc

Haylee Kelsall is a postdoctoral researcher at the Amsterdam School of Communication Research working on the project, ‘And the winner is…. !? The battle for the most impactful framing of election results between media and politics in multi-party systems’. In this project, she examines how and why different actors frame election results in particular ways, and how these frames shape citizens’ perceptions and attitudes towards democracy in the immediate aftermath of elections.

Beyond her current project, Haylee’s research interests lie at the intersection of political psychology, political communication and political science. Her PhD (Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research, UvA) explored the causes and consequences of affective polarization, with a particular focus on hostile emotions and their implications for social cohesion and democracy more broadly. 

Keywords: Polarization, framing, political behaviour, political psychology, public opinion

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