I am a third-year PhD candidate at the Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR), affiliated with the doctoral network Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Politics of Adolescence and Democracy (IP-PAD) and the Hot Politics Lab. My work centers on affective polarization. I investigate how it can be measured in multi-party systems by focusing on subsets of large and ideologically diverse political groups. In addition, I aim to bridge research on affective polarization in political science with psychological theories of affect, refining theoretical frameworks and measurement approaches to better capture the affective nature of polarization. Finally, I study how affective polarization develops during adolescence to better understand its origins and address concerns about increasing polarization among younger generations.
