Bert Bakker
@bnbakker
Associate Professor @UvA_ASCoR, U of Amsterdam | co-founder Hot Politics Lab | associate editor @JEPS_ed | member @ayoungacademy | Political Psychology
New programme by Dutch Research Council @NWOFunding: academic journals that wish to 'flip' from a subscription model to diamond open access (no fees for readers - no fees for authors) can apply for funding to transition: nwo.nl/en/news/fundin…
New prerpint. In a paper lead by @LaffineurCeline and co-authored with @GijsSchumacher we theorize that political interest is a social identity, develop new scales and show the construct and predictive validity of these interest as identity scales. Part of @ippad_eu project
🚨 New Publication 🚨 with @jonmladd, @KalliGiannelos, @canzengin00 & @MartialFoucault! With the generous support of @pro_jectliberty, we incentivized voters to deactivate their Facebook account during the 2022 French Presidential Election. 🧵👇 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…
Looking forward to this event by @REA_research on #democracy . Together with @bnbakker we will represent @ippad_eu to talk about democracy’s future : today’s young people | Do join us if you can 👇
Our democracy is under threat: rising #extremism, election interference & #misinformation are eroding trust. On 15/11, join the #MSCA session on #democracy to explore the power of EU-funded research that can help counter these challenges. Register now👉europa.eu/!97jbXP
Political concerns can affect our health in many different ways (think US elections...) With @marianavonmohr from @PoliticFeeling we show that better body-awareness make us more resilient to the impact that politics have on our health osf.io/preprints/psya…… via @OSFramework
New insights on sexism & attack politics (and the US election) Sneak peek of our latest research with the formidable (and twitterless) Loes Aaldering 🔥 👇👇👇
Sexist attacks in US election campaigns harm the men that employ them more than their female targets find Loes Aaldering of @VUamsterdam and @alessandro_nai of @UvA_ASCoR wp.me/p3I2YF-erk
Voor de eerste keer is nu aangetoond dat jongere gevoeliger zijn voor social media feedback (likes) dan volwassenen. Dat heeft directe impact op hun humeur. 🤳📱👉 go.uva.nl/4fe2QLS
Are you interested in the field of political psychology? And are you interested in doing a PhD at the @VUamsterdam? Check out this great project on personality traits and political ambition by Marc van de Wardt. Supervision by Marc, Loes Aaldering, and me. werkenbij.vu.nl/vacatures/phd-…
🇺🇸With the US elections only 2 weeks away, negative campaigns are running at full speed on both sides. Posivity seems to be more effective. But... do they really have a choice?🤔 Our experts @alessandro_nai and @GijsSchumacher beg to differ👇 go.uva.nl/3YdaU8F
🎓Ik ben aangesteld als Honorary Fellow aan de afdeling Politicologie @FMG_UvA @UvA_AISSR. Ik ga mij richten op sociale en politieke ongelijkheid, samenleven en de democratie, met thema's zoals vertrouwen in elkaar en de politiek, meedoen en erbij horen uva.nl/shared-content…
💥@PNASNexus Special Feature: Polarization & Trust💥 In 2023, we hosted a workshop (co-organized with @DG_Rand @ylelkes @kati_kish) at @MIT. As a result, @MicheleJGelfand, Erik Kimbrough & I led a Special Feature at Nexus comprised of those talks. Short🧵with all contributions:
🚨Interested in the newest research on polarization, norms & trust?🚨 Join our workshop on 𝐃𝐞𝐜 𝟏-𝟐 @ 𝐌𝐈𝐓, co-organized with @DG_Rand, @ylelkes & @kati_kish Keynotes from @profcikara & Ben Enke + many superstar speakers 𝐑𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: t.ly/4lA5A
Super excited about this Winter School - some of the best meta-scientists, methodologists, and generally some of my favorite people together for a week. Sign up! It will be a blast!
We are thrilled to announce the International Winter School 2025: “The 4Ms : Meta-research, Measurement, Multi-lab, and Multiverse data analysis in Behavioral Sciences" 📍February 17-21st, 2025, Padova, Italy. winterschool4ms.dpg.unipd.it
Important new work by @VinArceneaux showing what happens when people deactivate facebook. Another illustration of the importance of replication and extensions in the social sciences!
🚨 New Publication 🚨 with @jonmladd, @KalliGiannelos, @canzengin00 & @MartialFoucault! With the generous support of @pro_jectliberty, we incentivized voters to deactivate their Facebook account during the 2022 French Presidential Election. 🧵👇 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…
DCs learning all the ins and outs of grant writing today! 📝@manos_tsakiris #MSCA #HEurope #ResearchImpactEU #Krakowtraining
Our DCs engaged in an exciting talk by the City Office expert on Youth Social Activity program in Krakow! #MSCA #HEurope #ResearchImpactEU #Krakowtraining
The APSR is now accepting Registered Reports submissions! You can find detailed information about Registered Reports here: docs.google.com/document/d/e/2…
In a survey of over 6,000 Dutch researchers, ca. 50% said they frequently engaged in at least one questionable research practice in the last three years. Ca. 8% reported having falsified or fabricated their research at least once.
🚨🚨Being smarter is always a good thing right? Well not necessarily. In our new paper just accepted at BJSP, we find that people higher in cognitive ability express more political animosity and favoritism than people lower in cognitive ability.🚨🚨 1/9 osf.io/preprints/psya…
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/@hotpoliticsla…
🚨 New Publication 🚨 with @jonmladd, @KalliGiannelos, @canzengin00 & @MartialFoucault! With the generous support of @pro_jectliberty, we incentivized voters to deactivate their Facebook account during the 2022 French Presidential Election. 🧵👇 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…
I am recruiting a two-year postdoc. Please apply if you have a background in the evolutionary social sciences and familiarity with research on disgust, pathogen avoidance, sickness behavior, or hygiene! workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/post…
What do Americans think about Political Scientists? Our latest Path to 2024 report finds middling perceptions of contributions and intentions, & 71% of Republicans and 64% of Democrats agree political scientists should remain politically neutral. prlpublic.s3.amazonaws.com/reports/Septem…