PhD Candidate

Linda C. Bomm is a PhD candidate at the Amsterdam School of Communication Research. In her research, she investigates how societal threats such as climate change, polarization, war, and immigration, are perceived, politicized, and coped with. In her research, she bridges insights from political communication, political psychology, and political science.  Specifically, she researches how citizens regulate their political emotions, zooming in on established and newly emerging emotion regulation strategies in a novel socio-political context. Furthermore, she assesses to what extent political ideology is associated with being threatened by societal issues, how societal threat can be measured, and, more broadly, the role of emotions in public opinion. 
She is part of the NWO-funded VIDI project “Under Pressure: How citizens respond to threats and adopt the attitudes and behaviours to counter them” and supervised by Bert Bakker, Gijs Schumacher, and Corinna Oschatz.  Linda C. Bomm holds a Research Master’s degree in Social and Economic Psychology and has studied at Leiden University (the Netherlands), Free University Berlin (Germany) and KU Leuven (Belgium).  

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