π¨Dark Politics is now out at
@OxUniPress
in paperback, hardcover, ebook
Feeling that politics is getting dark? We have a book for ya
We investigate dark personality traits in politicians worldwide, and why they matter - for voters, elections, and democracy
miniπ§΅(& voucher!)
Scientists at the University of Palo Alto have reconstructed this 3D model of how Narcissus, famous for falling in love with his own reflection and staring at it for the remainder of his life, might have looked
I wrote an R package - RgRet - which basically only returns the message "Are you sure you do not want to try this with Stata instead?" regardless of what you type
Delighted to announce that I recently reached an important milestone
** the 100th journal rejection! **
Some articles were particularly fecund contributors to this trend, as you can see below ππ
Game of Thrones? The Wheel of Time? The Rings of Power?
Nah, just some fortified town (vestingsteden) in the Netherlands. Pretty awesome
(Bourtange, Elburg, Gorinchem, Naarden)
Three (3) reject this week. Three. Ok, sure, rejections are part of the job, one step backward two forward, learning never ends, yada yada yada.
Still, it always f**king stings
#AcademicTwitter
#PolCom
hive mind! π¨
I am still looking for contributors for the Encyclopedia of Political Communication π₯
230+ entries confirmed so far, but entries π are still in search of authors. Send email if YOU are interested (no guarantees ofc)
Plz RT for reach & diversity π
Our very large ENCYCLOPEDIA OF POLITICAL COMMUNICATION is out next year (2025) π
430+ entries (!) written by 570+ scholars across the world π₯
Guess what? You can already access many entries as a preprint!
Rolling π§΅with available open-access entries
Watch & save this space
It's book contract day! π¨π
Dark Politics: The Dark Personality of Politicians and the Future of Democracy
With
@MaierJuergen
, out next year at OUP
@OxUniPress
(title is provisional, suggestions most welcome)
Just a few days after turning 40, the notification of acceptance of paper
#40
.
(this last one is a really cool piece with
@tim_gravelle
and
@MikeMikeMed
, more info about that piece soon)
A few thoughts about
#40by40
in a shortπ§΅, if you allow me
π¨CALL FOR AUTHORSπ¨
We are looking for authors willing to write a short entry (2.5k words) on the topics below for our Encyclopedia of Political Communication
Interested?
β‘οΈReach out asap via email (a.nai
@uva
.nl) and let us know!
Plz RT for N and diversity
π¨ Delighted to share the new article below, out at
@apsr_journal
The article leverages real-time data collected on social media to investigate the persuasive effects of exposure to low-quality humoristic manipulations
β‘οΈUngated:
Ok, time to get scared - or to seriously discuss re how to tackle this as educators
I asked the new
@OpenAI
chatbot to "write a short essay about whether negative campaigning is beneficial or damaging for society"
The answer below is at least undergrad short essay level
π¨Is negative campaigning linked to an increase in affective polarization in the public? You bet!
New comparative evidence in article out at
@ElectoralStdies
w Danielle Martin
Open access article:
Negative campaigning data:
π¨π₯ DATA RELEASE π₯π¨
New large-scale comparative dataset on (negative) campaigns and candidate personality worldwide
With the upcoming publication of our
#DarkPolitics
book, I am releasing version 2.0 of the NEGex dataset
Open data:
Info in short π§΅
It's book contract signing day! πβοΈ
The Psychology of Election Campaign Negativity: Perceptions, Evaluations, and Effects
Forthcoming 2023 with
@Luk_O
at
@routledgebooks
new βCurrent Issues in Political Psychologyβ series
Time to put the head down and write this bad boy
If it's on Amazon it means it's real, right?
#DarkPolitics
out at OUP on Dec 11
(also in paperback, in case you are already starting to think about Xmas gifts for your annoying uncle)
Congratulations to
@alessandro_nai
,
@AnkeTresch
and JΓΌrgen Maier who won the 2022 Acta Politica Best Paper Award!
Their paper, "Hardwired to attack. Candidatesβ personality traits and negative campaigning in three European countries", is in Open Access:
Delighted that our Dark Politics book won
@PolPsyISPP
's Juliette and Alexander L. George Outstanding Political Psychology Book Award π₯
We discuss the role of dark personality for politics and democracy
Given [gestures at everything] these issues might be topical for a bit...
Delighted of having been awarded the prize for the "Most Influential Article" published in 2022 in the
#APRJ
β‘οΈAnnouncement from the Journal Editors:
To recap, Trump couldnβt decide whether to endorse Eric Greitens or Eric Schmitt in the Missouri Senate race, so he just endorses βERICβ the night before the election. Now both are graciously thanking him for his sincere support.
π¨New article out at
@ABSjournal
with
@MaierJuergen
TLDR: exposure to negative & uncivil political messages drives affective polarization upwards, especially among voters with populist attitudes
Open access:
Replication data:
π¨New piece out at
@EJPRjournal
with
@MatteoCasiragh3
&
@Curini
We investigate what drives perceptions of populism - are they in the eye of the beholder?
Open access:
π¨fully funded PhD position in Political Communication
@UvA_ASCoR
! π¨
Looking for a PhD candidate for a 4-year project on the communication roots of
#AffectivePolarization
in NL π₯
Could this be you?
Deadline May 20
Plz retweet for N & diversity!
β‘οΈ
@amydjohn
Read one randomly selected article (loosely connected to your topic, but not necessarily) each week. Not in depth, just to get the sense of what is out there. This also helps setting up the boundaries of the discipline, and gives you perhaps new ideas. Good luck with your thesis!
Very humbled to be a recipient of this year's
#ICA
@poli_com
Outstanding Reviewer Award - a task made particularly pleasant by the outstanding level of the papers to review in the first place
Wonderful surprise today in the mailbox!
Thank you so much
@UlrikeKlinger
! π₯
Really looking forward to dive into this, looks like a fantastic resource for scholars of
#polcomm
at all levels
Quickly scraped the
#ica22
program (panels only) for this word cloud.
(covid-19 is the 6th most frequent word, once removed "empty" words such as panel, chair, Hyatt etc and country names)
π¨ PEER REVIEW STUDY ALERT π¨
We are about to launch a (very) large-scale survey on peer review in social sciences
150,000+ scholars worldwide will receive an invitation to participate via email. You might be one of them!
Wanna know more?
β‘οΈ
Plz RT!
Had to cancel my flight to the πΊπΈ (f.u., covid), so it will be dinner for one this Xmas eve
Mont d'or
Fennel sausage
Brussel sprouts
Pinot Grigio del Trentino
#poliscicooks
#lonelyxmas
π¨PhD position in Pol Commπ¨
We are looking for a PhD candidate on the project 'The Role of Social Norms in Negative Campaigning and Affective Polarization', supervised by the awesome
@CorinnaOschatz
, myself, and Andreas Schuck
Please RT for N and diversity!
See details below
Come and work with us in beautiful Amsterdam! We are looking for a PhD student to explore the 'Role of Social Norms in Negative Campaigning and Affective Polarization'
Deadline: 10 Jan 24
Starting: Preferably April 24
Details:
RT=π§‘
@UvA_ASCoR
@Polcomm
π¨ New article out at PAID
I triangulate
@csestweets
voter data in 22 countries and personality expert ratings for 49 top politiciansπ
TL;DR: voters scoring high on
#populist
attitudes tend to like politicians with dark personality traits
β‘οΈ ungated:
π¨New paper out at
@Journal_PoPs
with dream team
@chiara_vargiu
@chiaralisavalli
Experiments inπ¨ππΊπΈ show that incivility can be persuasive...
... especially for more aggressive ppl (high populism, dark personality)
β‘οΈ
Open data:
This will seem inconsequential to many of you (there are reviewing machines out there) but I just passed the bar of 200 reviews made, and it feels good.
Peer reviewing is not a perfect system, by far, and certainly can be improved. But it remains an important part of what we do
It took me SEVEN years to figure out that you can save a ggplot as a vectorized .svg file ggsave("file.svg"). The svg file can be opened on powerpoint and it will be completely vectorized, even text are still recognized as text boxes! No more recreating plots on illustrator!!!!!
π¨ New out at
@ElectoralStdies
on candidate dark personality
Are candidates w dark personality (narcissism, psychopathy, Machiav.) liked less?
TLDR: In survey and experiment data dark traits reduce candidate likability, more strongly than the positive effects of positive traits
π€·'If you have a low chance of winning, what are the risks of going negative?'π‘
@Alessandro_Nai
tells you all about negative campaigning in our new video!
Full vid:
New article out at
@WEPsocial
!
@fmartinezicoma
and myself show that
#populists
have a very peculiar
#personality
: low agreeableness, emotional stability and conscientiousness + high extraversion, narcissism, psychopathy and Machiavellianism
-> (ungated)
Are psychopaths more likely to win elections? Do populists score higher in narcissism and lower in conscientiousness? Are agreeable candidates less likely to go negative? Find out in my new article (and dataset!)
#personality
#dataset
@poli_com
Are
#populists
more aggressive in their campaigns? Looking at the campaign strategies of 195 candidates worldwide, I show that populists are more likely go
#negative
and use
#fear
appeals than non-populists
Check the new article here, in open access!
π¨New article out at
@PRQjournal
with the fantastic
@IrisVerhulsdonk
and
@jeffreykarp
In three experiments in πΊπΈπ³π± we show that using humor is a winning strategy when going negative: less backlash, same effectiveness
When in doubt, be funny
Ungated:
New paper with
@chiara_vargiu
out at IJoC! π¨
Are uncivil and simplified political messages persuasive? That's not so simple - it also depends on candidate and message evaluation
Open access:
Replication data:
Flight attendant: Is there a doctor on the plane?
Me: Yes, but I'm not that kind of β¦
Flight attendant: The pilots are debating about democracy and politics in very general terms
Me: Sorry, I am no economist
Having a RISK boardgame discretely (sic) in the background when being interviewed about geopolitical and strategic military tactics is a bit on the nose - no?
π¨PhD in Political Communication
@UvA_ASCoR
!
I and
@LindaBos80
are looking for a PhD candidate for our 3-year research project on the supply, demand & consequences of "hostile politics" (negativity, incivility, intolerance)
Is it you? Apply by May 25!
β‘οΈ
π¨New paper at
@jepp_journal
with
@MaierJuergen
@NynkeVerhaar
We compare use of negative campaigning in national and πͺπΊ elections
TLDR: more extreme parties go more negative in EU than in national elections
β‘οΈpaper:
β‘οΈopen data:
Polcom hivemind! π¨
See below the current list of entries (already have authors) for the Encyclopedia of Pol Com π
Smth missing? Any new entry, especially on traditionally underrepresented topics, that YOU'd be happy to write?
Plz RT for N & diversity
@poli_com
@ECPR_PolCom
π¨ PEER REVIEW SURVEY ALERT π¨
We investigate perceptions & practices of peer review in social sciences worldwide
The survey is now ** open to all participants **
πππ
Thoughts about peer review? Take the survey
β‘οΈ
Plz retweet for N and diversity π₯
This remains, by far, one of the best sentences I've ever written. I am surprised it is not cited like a hundred times a day. Minimum.
C'mon people, you know the drill
(paper with
@Luk_O
is here: )
For
#ValentinesDay
offer your loved one(s) a copy of Dark Politics! ππ
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