My name is Gustavo C. Jesus, and I am a PhD candidate and part of ASCoR and the Hot Politics Lab (University of Amsterdam), where I study the neural and affective foundations of partisan activation. My work combines psychophysiological and behavioral methods to examine how partisanship shapes cognitive-affective responses to political information. Recently, I have investigated whether the faces of out-group politicians enhanced early brain activity (within 300 ms) and whether politics aligns with past group research. Now, I focus on using data-driven EEG approaches to uncover the temporal neural dynamics underlying political incongruence. Broadly, my research integrates affective neuroscience and political psychology to test the hot cognition hypothesis.
