(Peter) Luca Versteegen
@versteegenluca
Postdoc at the University of Vienna.
Studying polarization, identities, emotions – and when humans show their inherent goodness.
No lunch before 2pm.
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This project is great! Ann-Kristin Kölln and Jacob Gunderson are great!@goteborgsuni and Gothenburg are great! If you like great stuff, I warmly encourage you to apply. Deadline Oct 31. ⬇️
After 3 amazing years with Nikhil Sengupta and the PSYPOL 📊 Psychology & Public Policy Research Unit crew at the University of Kent, today I become Lecturer (equivalent of Assistant Professor) at Cardiff University Politics and IR!
This is one of the precious days where my favorite excuse is even true: "Sorry, it’s my first day!" Any mistakes on me today while setting in at STAWIUniVienna
🚨 First publication now out in Politics of the Low Countries! I test the concurrent validity of several affective polarisation measurements. Main finding: Though most measurements share common drivers, their outcomes differ substantially. doi.org/10.5553/PLC/.0… 🧵 1/5
Excited to be heading to my first #APSA, where I'll present two papers on the political motivations of: (1) first-time candidates (w/Carolina Plescia) & (2) marginalized voters, testing if women, LGB individuals and ethnic minorities vote "as if their rights depended on it". ✈️
new paper with Vin Arceneaux & Gijs Schumacher forthcoming Political Psychology. Main take home in preregistered lab and survey studies is that negativity bias is most likely not the answer to why people on the left and right differ: osf.io/preprints/psya… Details⬇️
📰 New preprint shows that boosting self-disclosure (sharing in living rooms > subways and/or using personal stories > facts) in conversations between political opponents helps ⬇️ animosity and ⬆️ connection. ✍️: Emily Kubin (Peter) Luca Versteegen Kurt Gray