
Jakob Kasper
@jakob_kas
PhD candidate @ippad_eu, @UvA_Amsterdam | Formerly MSc Psychology @Uniheidelberg & Visiting Researcher @Cornell | mastodon.world/@jakobkasper
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19-05-2021 18:40:05
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new paper offers a critical survey of the evidence on political attitudes and psychological predispositions (e.g., personality). w/ Bert Bakker, Vin Arceneaux, Neil Fasching.

New paper in Advances in Political Psychology w Vin Arceneaux Neil Fasching & Yphtach Lelkes: take home "the number of studies documenting correlations between psychological dispositions and ideology is large, the empirical basis for the claim that these are underpinnings is quite narrow." ⬇️

📣It’s officially fully out: my first first author paper!🤠 Social interactions and active activities are key to feeling good, but how do these activities improve wellbeing? Through positive emotions! journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11… UvA Maatschappij & Gedrag 🧵

Could emotion regulation strategies help explain different responses to negative news? New Preprint out now with Bert Bakker - a thread 🧵 doi.org/10.31234/osf.i…

Carlisle Rainey Interesting and thanks for sharing! I'll take the freedom to add a fifth that you might find interesting: Jakob Kasper lead our effort to validate the use of brief affective polarization measures. Preprint here: doi.org/10.31234/osf.i…, details x.com/Jakob_kas/stat…


🚨Finally out in Psychophysiology TheRealSPR (open access): My first first-author paper, based on my master thesis!😊 What resting state EEG characteristics can predict individual differences in cognitive control? doi.org/10.1111/psyp.1…

Who falls for online misinformation? A meta-analysis on demographic and psychological factors impacting misinformation susceptibility. Preprint: osf.io/preprints/psya… My lovely coauthors: Alan Novaes Tump, Nina Ehmann, philipp lorenz-spreen, Ralph Hertwig, Anton Gollwitzer, @RalfKurvers 1/n


Day 2 of our trip to Brussels , at the EU_ScienceHub thanks to Laura Smillie 😷🇺🇦 for a training course on the Practice of Informing Policy through Evidence with Dr Anastasia Deligkiaouri . Thank you for having us !


In an op-ed in today’s The Guardian I examine where the success of the far right comes from. My main claim is that neither parties nor voters have fundamentally changed. Instead, they have been driven into each others’ arms. #thread 1/11 theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

New paper in Cognition & Emotion in which Yphtach Lelkes and I review the affective polarization literature and argue that we more theorizing and an research agenda to determine the extent to which polarization is affective. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…


Volgens premier Schoof is asiel en migratie “de grootste" zorg van de Nederlandse kiezer. Op Stuk Rood Vlees tonen wij: Kiezers zijn bezorgd over immigratie, maar net zo of bezorgder over andere onderwerpen, zoals energiekosten en het landsbestuur. t.ly/sYLgl

What should researchers replicate? @annaveer, Daniël Lakens & Peder M Isager proposed the Replication Value as a metric. In a commentary, Bert Bakker, @_d_peterson & I reflect on it and propose a revision to better differentiate between studies with large samples. t.ly/av_Kv

Political ideology is associated with differences in brain structure, but less than previously thought. Learn more in iScience journal: cell.com/iscience/fullt… @GijsSchumacher Diamantis Petropoulos Petalas & Steven scholte


📢New paper: Can moderate levels of affective polarization actually be beneficial for citizens’ democratic attitudes? ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/14… In EJPR journal, Emma Turkenburg and I show that the relationship between AP and democratic support is more nuanced than assumed 🧵
