Description
How can the brain and physiology strengthen political science research?
In the Hot Politics Lab we use various techniques to study neural and psychophysiological responses to political stimuli (such as faces and political slogans). The goal is to better understand affective-cognitive processes that underlie political behavior and cognition.
We have used techniques such as EMG, EEG, (f)MRI and skin conductance measurements.
Publications
| No | Publication |
|---|---|
| 7 | Bert N. Bakker & Gijs Schumacher (2025). Using measures of psychophysiological and neural activity to advance understanding of psychological processes in politics. Handbook of Innovations in Political Psychology |
| 12 | Diamantis Petropoulos Petalas, Gijs Schumacher & H. Steven Scholte (2025). Is Political Ideology Correlated with Brain Structure? A Preregistered Replication. iScience |
| 21 | Gustavo Couto de Jesus, Maaike D. Homan, Diamantis Petropoulos Petalas, Bert N.Bakker, Joe Bathelt, and Gijs Schumacher (2024). An EEG-study on the extent to which partisanship conditions the processing of politicians’ faces. Preprint |
| 32 | Roeland Dubel, Gijs Schumacher, Maaike D. Homan, Delaney Peterson & Bert N. Bakker (2024). Replicating and Extending Soroka, Fournier, and Nir: Negative News Increases Arousal and Negative Affect. Media and Communication |
| 36 | Komáromy, D., Rooduijn, M., & Schumacher, G. (2024). Mapping the populist mind: A network approach to integrate sociological and psychological models of the populist radical right Frontiers in Political Science |
