Chiara Vargiu
Researcher in Political Communication with the @rpa-cs-uva.bsky.social at @ascor.bsky.social | PhD in Political Science @sspunil.bsky.social | Elite Incivility, Marginalization, Violence
website: chiaravargiu.com
- Reposted by Chiara VargiuHere's a link to the #OpenAccess article by @valentimvicente.bsky.social, @eliasdinas.bsky.social & @dziblatt.bsky.social - cup.org/4pIYRvH
- ⏰ Last day to send your abstract (max 500 words) to our @ecpr.bsky.social Joint Session workshop on 𝖍𝖔𝖘𝖙𝖎𝖑𝖊 𝖕𝖔𝖑𝖎𝖙𝖎𝖈𝖘 (U. Innsbruck, 7-10 April)! Submit here by midnight: tinyurl.com/yjcaa3ay
- ⏱️ One more week to apply to our #ecprjs26 workshop on hostile communication styles! Come join us in Innsbruck to discuss the shady business of hostile politics 😶🌫️ Send your abstract by 10 Dec (link below). @ecpr.bsky.social @ecpr-polcom.bsky.social
- Reposted by Chiara Vargiu🤖 AI chatbots can persuade voters 🗳️ @cvargiu.bsky.social and I were recently asked to review a piece for @nature.com, now out, and wrote a short digest about it TLDR: chatting with a LLM can change your mind, even if facts provided are not always accurate check it out 👇 #chatbots #persuasion
- ⏱️ One more week to apply to our #ecprjs26 workshop on hostile communication styles! Come join us in Innsbruck to discuss the shady business of hostile politics 😶🌫️ Send your abstract by 10 Dec (link below). @ecpr.bsky.social @ecpr-polcom.bsky.social
- 🎬 Excited to co-direct a #ecprjs26 Workshop w/ J. Dedeigne on hostile communication styles 🤬 Working on uncivil 🙄, intolerant 🙅🏻♀️, or violent 🤜 political rhetoric and its effects across countries, contexts, or media? Join us! 📅 Submit by 10 Dec: tinyurl.com/yjcaa3ay
- 🎬 Excited to co-direct a #ecprjs26 Workshop w/ J. Dedeigne on hostile communication styles 🤬 Working on uncivil 🙄, intolerant 🙅🏻♀️, or violent 🤜 political rhetoric and its effects across countries, contexts, or media? Join us! 📅 Submit by 10 Dec: tinyurl.com/yjcaa3ay
- We welcome scholars from *all career stages* and if you have any questions, do not hesitate to reach out!
- We are finally out!! Thanks to my fantastic co-authors, the anonymous reviewers, and @thejop.bsky.social editorial team. Publishing my first registered report has been an incredibly instructive and rewarding experience 🤓 Much has been said about political incivility, but does it actually exist? 🤷♀️
- 🚨 New piece out at @thejop.bsky.social w awesome @cvargiu.bsky.social & D Garzia If incivility means breaking norms, & norms are person- and context-dependent, *does incivility even exist*? In the stage-2 registered report we investigate what drives perceptions of incivility tinyurl.com/4h5u4y8y
- Reposted by Chiara VargiuRadical right accommodation really does not work. New paper out with this exceptionally talented team @katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk doi.org/10.31235/osf...
- Reposted by Chiara Vargiu🚨Pre-print alert🚨 Research shows citizens in many Western democracies are increasingly affectively polarized––they feel warm toward their own party but quite cold toward opposing parties. But how does it feel to “feel warmly”? @katharinalawall.bsky.social, @mtsakiris.bsky.social & I asked. 🧵1/8
- Reposted by Chiara Vargiu⚡️⚡️⚡️ Interested in… …negativity, incivility, intolerance? …comparative and experimental data on the perception and effects of attack politics? … personality, contextual influences? Get all this with a discount! 📚📚📚🤩🤩🤩
- 📕 *The Psychology of Attack Politics* is coming out next month. With @alessandronai.bsky.social and @lukotto.bsky.social we discuss how negativity isn't always what you think 🤔 and why some of us may even enjoy it 😈 Pre-order now with 20% off (paperback ~£32). Discount code + link in the flyer 👇
- Reposted by Chiara VargiuLooking forward to present tomorrow our paper with @cvargiu.bsky.social about shifts in support for #PoliticalViolence driven by the #Mangione attack Come say hi if you are in Ghent or thereabouts! ➡️ preprint: osf.io/preprints/os...
- ➡️Save the date!⬅️ Interested in political violence, party dynamics and democratic norms? 👀 On 11 June, research group Gaspar has the pleasure to welcome prof. dr. @alessandronai.bsky.social for our Gaspar lecture series! All are welcome! Registration link 👇
- Reposted by Chiara VargiuNew piece at @cogitatiopag.bsky.social w L Aaldering @kgattermann.bsky.social @fredericofs.bsky.social D Garzia The capper of our “dark leaders” trilogy, we show that negative traits matter the most Come for the cool theory, stay for the #GameofThrones experiment treatments ➡️ tinyurl.com/mvn7np2e
- Reposted by Chiara VargiuPundits are - in vain - looking to economics and politics when trying to explain Trump's behavior. But, in reality, the central place to look if we want to understand Trump and his policies is this: The psychology of dominance. 🧵(1/5)
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- Prompted by news of prosecutors seeking death penalty for Luigi #Mangione, we share findings from a natural experiment based on his case. We find that Mangione's arrest led to a small rise in support for #PoliticalViolence among Dems. 📝 Preprint: osf.io/preprints/os... 📊 Data & code: osf.io/y5mn3/
- So cool to see this taking shape 🥹 Thanks to @alessandronai.bsky.social & @lukotto.bsky.social for bringing me on board, it’s been great working on this together!
- 📚📚📚 New book out this July with @lukotto.bsky.social & @cvargiu.bsky.social We present a novel approach to study #NegativeCampaigning & #Incivility 🥊 ⚔️ - focusing on public perceptions and evaluations 😱😆🤢😡 Bonus: low price (~£35) & the cover is 🤘 Pre-orders from July 5: tinyurl.com/7raa9fpf
- Reposted by Chiara Vargiu🚨 New paper out in @electoralstudies.bsky.social w Patrick van Erkel & @lindabos.bsky.social What drives changes in radical partisanship over time? TLDR: #NeedforChaos and #ExpressivePartisanship drive radicalisation & slow down de-radicalisation Paper tinyurl.com/mr46r35u Data 🇳🇱 osf.io/ma6u7
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