Events calendar
The Hot Politics Lab Meetings are typically every Friday from 3-4 in B9.22. We also organize the biannual Political Psychology Meetings and other workshops. Check the calendar below for all our events.
If you want to see our lab meetings from the past. Visit our youtube page. We have over 200 videos.
April 10, 2026
Jakob Kasper (University of Amsterdam) – Coming of age at the ballot: Public attitudes towards the ideal voting age
Gustavo Jesus (University of Amsterdam) – The partisan pull: How alpha asymmetry reveals our hidden approach and avoidance responses to political messaging
April 17, 2026
Inaugural lecture of Gijs Schumacher (University of Amsterdam): De hartslag van de democratie/ The heartbeat of Democracy
From 16:30 at the Aula Lutherse Kerk
May 1, 2026
Delaney Peterson (University of Amsterdam) – Political mental health and political partisanship in the United States
Giovanni d’Agostino (University of Amsterdam) – Beyond the atomic evaluator in political trust research: The importance of (contentious) social norms and expectations
May 8, 2026
Neil Fasching (University of Pennsylvania) – Partisan airwaves: Leveraging large language models to evaluate topics of discussion, misinformation and toxicity on political podcasts
May 22, 2026
Dutch Political Psychology Meeting
10:30 to 16:30 @ Roeterseiland Campus (C10.20)
June 5, 2026
Roderik Rekker (Radboud University) – Policy advocacy by scientists and the politicization of trust in science
June 19, 2026
Ruth Tietjen (Tilberg University) – Communities of the lonely
June 26, 2026
Ili Ma (Leiden University) – TBD
