Days: Thursday, December 3rd Friday, December 4th
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The Design of the Political Mind: Evolution and the (Ir)Rationality of Modern Politics
In order to understand how modern citizens think and feel about politics, we need to understand what their political minds were designed for. In science there is only one explanation for functional biological design: evolution by natural selection. In this talk, I will discuss and illustrate how evolution designed the human mind to help our ancestors navigate in the politics of small-scale groups and how this design of the political mind continues to shape modern politics. Perhaps surprisingly, much irrationality in modern politics is a direct consequence of a mind that is extremely well-designed for the politics of the past.
| 10:00 | Body odor disgust sensitivity predicts authoritarian attitudes ( abstract ) |
| 10:15 | Authoritarianism as a consequence of low self-efficacy ( abstract ) |
| 10:30 | Need for Closure and Perceived Threat as Bases of Right-Wing Authoritarianism: A Longitudinal Moderation Approach ( abstract ) |
| 10:45 | The rediscovered complexity of Right-Wing Authoritarianism ( abstract ) |
| 10:00 | How political engagement effects mental health process of immigrants in the context of the diaspora ( abstract ) |
| 10:15 | The Association between Actual and Perceived Ethnic Diversity: The Moderating Role of Authoritarianism and Implications for Outgroup Threat, Anxiety, and Mistrust ( abstract ) |
| 10:30 | The influence of the European immigration crisis: Evidence from an experiment embedded in a panel study ( abstract ) |
| 10:45 | Confronting privilege on the global stage: Attitudes towards immigration and global inequality ( abstract ) |
| 10:00 | Complementary or Substitute Pathways to Politics ( abstract ) |
| 10:15 | Cultural Cleavages: Protests, Violent Repression and the Culture Clashes they reflect ( abstract ) |
| 10:30 | To what extent has transnational protest policing diffused to national European protest events? ( abstract ) |
| 10:00 | The Deservingness Heuristic and Outgroup Bias in Political Communication ( abstract ) |
| 10:15 | Understanding How Modality Affects Learning From News: an Eye Tracking Experiment ( abstract ) |
| 10:30 | Cognitive Bias and Communication Strength in Social Networks ( abstract ) |
| 10:45 | Subtle visual cues and message evaluation ( abstract ) |
Heroes or Fools: How Do Protesters and Non-protesters Perceive and Evaluate Each Other?
Maja Kutlaca, Martijn van Zomeren & Kai Epstude
Be the change that you wish to see! Using an identity content approach to understand how an individual’s self-concept changes as they become an activist.
Felicity Turner-Zwinkels, Tom Postmes & Martijn van Zomeren
A relational basis for coping with low group status: Explaining a rare and replicated null relationship between group identification and social protest among Indonesian ethnic minority group members
Martijn van Zomeren, Nella Susilani & Simin Berend
Zeitgeist predicts protest voting
Anne Marthe van der Bles, Babet Kanis, Simon Otjes, & Tom Postmes
| 13:00 | Ideals and performance: A comparative study of perceived legitimacy in different regimes ( abstract ) |
| 13:15 | Value Congruence, Opinion Diversity and the Development of Generalized Trust: Experimental Evidence using a Minimal Group Design ( abstract ) |
| 13:30 | Threat or triteness? Is political trust at stake when politicians violate norms? ( abstract ) |
| 13:45 | Social identifications as predictors of trust towards international institutions among youth in Bosnia and Herzegovina ( abstract ) |
| 13:00 | The Role of Political Heuristics in Enhancing Political Interest ( abstract ) |
| 13:15 | Personal economic grievances and self-serving bias ( abstract ) |
| 13:30 | On the utility of implicit measures for measuring right-wing populist support: for whom are they more predictive? ( abstract ) |
| 13:45 | Do implicit motives affect the democratic process? ( abstract ) |
| 13:00 | Explaining taboos on trade in organs, sex, and recreational drugs: Is it all about conformity? ( abstract ) |
| 13:15 | Free to blame? Political differences in free will belief are driven by differences in moralization ( abstract ) |
| 13:30 | Conformity and moral reasoning: the differential social pressure effects of utilitarian versus deontological group norms. ( abstract ) |
Effects of Organizational Commitment and Group Cohesion on Anti-Organizational Behavior
Roderick Sluiter & Agnes Akkerman
The Price of Flexible Work: Workplace cohesion and anti-organizational behavior
Agnes Akkerman, Roderick Sluiter, Alex Lehr & Giedo Jansen
Dealing with austerity related discontent within Dutch Armed forces
Igor Petrovic, Bert Klandermans & Jacquelien van Stekelenburg
Why Union Members Demonstrate: The role of values
Jacquelien van Stekelenburg, Jeroen Voerknecht & Bert Klandermans
Trigger factors in the radicalization process.
Allard Feddes, Lars Nickolson & Bertjan Doosje
A new concept in studying radicalization: Subjective in-group safety
Sanne Dobber & Allard Feddes
Resilience against radicalization and extremism
Liesbeth Mann, Bertjan Doosje, Elly A. Konijn, Lars Nickolson, Urs Moore and Nel Ruigrok
How to evaluate a training in resilience against radicalization?
Bertjan Doosje, Allard Feddes, Liesbeth Mann & Benaissa Hallich
| 15:00 | Perpetrators of international crimes ( abstract ) |
| 15:15 | Working together? Ethnic diversity in the workplace and social trust ( abstract ) |
| 15:30 | Prospects of Social Identity Complexity and its correlates among formerly conflicting majority and minority ethnic groups in Kosovo ( abstract ) |
| 15:45 | Understanding peace and conflict through social identity theory: contemporary and worldwide perspectives. ( abstract ) |
| 15:00 | How Nonverbal Framing affects the Persuasiveness of a Political Speech ( abstract ) |
| 15:15 | Can Citizens Be Framed? How Information, Not Emphasis, Changes Opinions ( abstract ) |
| 15:30 | Multiple processing routes to multimodal framing effects ( abstract ) |
| 15:45 | The Impact of Intergroup Threat Frames in Television News on Prejudice Toward Ethnic Minorities ( abstract ) |
| 15:00 | Angry and Inaccurate: How Emotions Facilitate Political Misperceptions ( abstract ) |
| 15:15 | What can the emotion disgust can teach us about ideology? ( abstract ) |
| 15:30 | National nostalgia: A group-based emotion that benefits the in-group but hampers intergroup relations ( abstract ) |
| 15:45 | Cross-Pressures in Voting: Cognitive versus Affective Heuristics ( abstract ) |
| 15:00 | Eroding Political Trust? The Systemic Effects of Negative Campaigning on British Voters’ Attitudes in the 2015 General Election ( abstract ) |
| 15:15 | The negative effect of negative campaigning in the 2015 UK elections: an online experiment ( abstract ) |
| 15:30 | Politics as a Process: Conceptual and Empirical Implications for Political Psychology ( abstract ) |
Civic Identity as a Critical Synthesis of the Individual, Dialogic and Cultural
Helen Haste
Making Sense of Controversy. Adolescents’ Meaning Making Process of Socio-historic Issues
Everardo Pérez-Manjarrez
Why we need to care about adolescents' democratic identity development
Isolde de Groot & Wiel Veugelers
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| 10:00 | Invisible Muslim women: Gender-specific stereotypes of Muslims in Germany ( abstract ) |
| 10:15 | The Power of the Sexes. Gendered Political Socialization Among Siblings and Parents ( abstract ) |
| 10:30 | Which Chopstick is the Fork? Homonegative Attitudes Predict Preferences for Gender Role Complementarity in Same-Sex Relationships ( abstract ) |
| 10:45 | Can Female Politicians Overcome an "Emotional Double Bind"? – Gender-Specific Effects of Politicians’ Emotions on the Attribution of Leadership Qualities ( abstract ) |
| 10:00 | Born to Volunteer? Personality Traits and Different Forms of Volunteering ( abstract ) |
| 10:15 | Dark triad, manipulation, political choices, and the presidential election of 2015 in Poland ( abstract ) |
| 10:30 | Are narcissists more prejudiced? The opposing mediational roles of social dominance orientation and right-wing authoritarianism ( abstract ) |
| 10:45 | Personality and Vote Choice: Mediating Factors in Multi-Party Systems ( abstract ) |
| 10:00 | Populist and non-populist leaders: A comparative analysis of leadership evaluations by voters ( abstract ) |
| 10:15 | It Runs in the Family? A Study of Political Candidacy among Adoptees ( abstract ) |
| 10:30 | Biased Politicians? A State-of-the-Art and Research Agenda of the Heuristics and Biases Influencing Political Judgment and Decision Making ( abstract ) |
| 10:45 | Determinant indicators in a belief system for democratic behaviour of political leaders ( abstract ) |
| 10:00 | The Politics of Patriotism: The Unexplored Link between Policy, Patriotism, and Public Opinion ( abstract ) |
| 10:15 | Sensitivity to Injustices towards Others fosters a Left-Wing Political Orientation ( abstract ) |
| 10:30 | When “global warming is a hoax” is a “hoax”: The unique psychology and ideology of “warmist” (or counter-) conspiracies about climate change. ( abstract ) |
| 10:45 | Political decisions: The role of context, conservatism and attitudes toward political participation ( abstract ) |
Who are the populist people and what attracts them to populism? An empirical assessment of the support for populism among the public at large.
Bram Spruyt, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Personality and Support for Populist Parties: Refining the theory
Bert Bakker, Matthijs Rooduijn, Gijs Schumacher (Universiteit van Amsterdam), Robert Klemmensen & Asbjørn Sonne Nørgaard (University of Southern Denmark)
Political extremism predicts belief in conspiracy theories
Jan-Willem van Prooijen, André P. M. Krouwel (VU University Amsterdam) & Thomas V. Pollet(NSCR)
The political psychology of UKIP: Personality factors, authoritarianism and support for right-wing populist parties in Britain.
Roland Kappe (University College London)
| 13:30 | Remembering atrocities, justifications, and apologies: Collective memory as function of group membership in the United States and Sri Lanka ( abstract ) |
| 13:45 | Leadership and Mass Violence: a comparison of Robert Mugabe and Kenneth Kaunda ( abstract ) |
| 14:00 | Does Perpetrating Violence Increase Group Identification? Survey Evidence from Former Combatants ( abstract ) |
| 13:30 | Voting rule and voters’experience. ( abstract ) |
| 13:45 | Affective reactions and political participation: The case of the Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris ( abstract ) |
| 14:00 | Examining the mechanisms of voting: Income contributes to voter abstention through feelings of relative deprivation ( abstract ) |
| 13:30 | Attitudinal Conflict and Belief Change from a Bayesian Perspective ( abstract ) |
| 14:00 | Perceptions of Social Conflict Drive Preferences for Facial Dominance in Leaders: Conflict Contexts and SDO heighten Preferences for a Dominant Leader Face ( abstract ) |
| 14:15 | Facial Appearance and Institutional Signals in Political Trust Evaluations ( abstract ) |
| 14:30 | A Query Theory Approach to the Incumbency Advantage ( abstract ) |
Increasing Readiness to Make Concessions through Acknowledgment of Adversary's Victimhood: The Case of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Boaz Hameiriaand & Arie Nadler
Forgiving the terrorists of the Years of Lead in Italy: The role of restorative justice beliefs and sociocognitive determinants
Camillo Regalia, Claudia Manzi , Giorgia Paleari, Sara Pelucchi & Maria Brambilla
Critical incidents leading to changes in hearts and minds among victims and victimizers: Towards developing a resource tool-box for effective conflict management
Masi Noor
The roundtable discusses the relationship between political psychology as academic discipline and the practice of politics in real life. Academics are increasingly expected to contribute to societal debates and to solutions for societal challenges. Politicians and policy makers are increasingly expected to base their opinions and beliefs on evidence (evidence-based policy). Nonetheless, often one cannot easily translate insights from academia into actionable advise for politics and policy; and politicians and policy makers often experience difficulties in understanding the relevance of research for practice. This roundtable aims to stimulate reflection among established politicians, policy makers, and academics, in order to facilitate communication between academia and practice and to mutually benefit from each other’s expertise and interests.