Delaney Peterson
PhD with the Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR) and the Hot Politics Lab establishing the study of political mental health
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- Reposted by Delaney PetersonPolitics Doesn’t Define How Most People See Themselves I’ve written a blog post just published by The Inquisitive Mind. Link: www.in-mind.org/blog/post/po... Very brief summary in the thread.
- Reposted by Delaney Peterson🎓 This Friday (06.02), Nanke Verloo will be our guest at the #HotPoliticsLab, presenting her work on studying emotions via ethnography and dramaturgy. 📍 Location: Common Room (REC-B9.22) 💻 Or join us online 👉 teams.microsoft.com/dl/launcher/... We hope to see many of you on Friday!
- Reposted by Delaney PetersonDo negative encounters with immigrants activate personality effects in PRR support? @cvalebeek.bsky.social, Daniel Komáromy, @delaneypeterson.bsky.social & @mrooduijn.bsky.social find it's not generally the case but initial exposure & out-group framing may matter: buff.ly/D5C50zO (OPEN ACCESS)
- Reposted by Delaney PetersonI wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free
- Reposted by Delaney PetersonHow can stable personality traits explain less stable PRR voting? Daniel Komaromy, @delaneypeterson.bsky.social, @mrooduijn.bsky.social and I test whether negative contact with immigrants 'activates' these traits. Mostly, it doesn't. But: initial exposure and out-group definition may matter.
- Reposted by Delaney PetersonKare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."
- Reposted by Delaney PetersonMedia: do not lead with the false government framing of what happened
- Reposted by Delaney PetersonUrgent call from citizen in Greenalnd to the US Congress. Stop the US President and administration in their unlawful threats of Greenland 🛑
- Reposted by Delaney Peterson👀 If you want a sneak peek of what I’ve been working on over the past four years, you can find a summary of my dissertation in the latest volume of @plc-journal.bsky.social, together with an insightful review by @emilievh.bsky.social. ➡️ plc-journal.eu/article/view...
- Interested in how parties integrate social media comm to shape public perceptions of party competition & their relationship to groups? Check out @lucaskins.bsky.social dissertation (and other outputs!). PhD summary and my short review @plc-journal.bsky.social plc-journal.eu/issue/view/1...
- Reposted by Delaney PetersonTurning Politics Inside-Out: NEUROPOL Workshop! 🧠🗳️ Amsterdam, January 23rd We're discussing the core challenge of Political Neuroscience: How do we bridge the gap between detailed cognitive mechanisms (high internal validity) and real-world political behavior (high ecological validity)?
- Reposted by Delaney PetersonNew paper out w/ @tomwgvdmeer.bsky.social & @hakhverdian.bsky.social in @epsrjournal.bsky.social. We show that political trust dynamics matter for electoral behavior. While stable and variable distrusters behave similarly, declining trust boosts both abstention and anti-establishment voting. 🧵
- Reposted by Delaney PetersonExcited to share a new preprint with @bnbakker.bsky.social, @ylelkes.bsky.social & @gijsschumacher.bsky.social! doi.org/10.31234/osf... Affective polarization research focuses almost exclusively on valence, despite affect having at least two core dimensions. We show that emotional arousal matters!
- Reposted by Delaney PetersonNew in 'The Handbook of Loneliness': 📊 This chapter examines how loneliness shapes political attitudes and participation, distinguishing it from social embeddedness while highlighting their interconnected pathways. bit.ly/4p9ejBI #BookSky #ReserachPublishing @langenkamp.bsky.social
- Looking forward to reading this comprehensive resource on loneliness, with chapters on attachment, the physiological effects of loneliness and loneliness and political behaviour, among others! link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
- Reposted by Delaney PetersonI wrote a short piece on capitalism and the states-system for @phenomenalworld.bsky.social www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bet...
- Reposted by Delaney Peterson🎓 This Friday (21.11), we are delighted to welcome Corinna Oschatz to the #HotPoliticsLab. She will present her work on the relationship between candidates' moral foundations and their campaign rhetoric. 📍 Location: Common Room (REC-B9.22) 💻 Or join us online 👉 teams.microsoft.com/dl/launcher/...
- Reposted by Delaney Peterson🎓 This Friday (14.11): another Graduate Friday at the #HotPoliticsLab! Mathies Jaeger Andresen and Anna Wickenkamp will present their work on political social status and trust, and populist communication. 📍 Location: REC-C3.06 💻 Or join us online 👉 teams.microsoft.com/dl/launcher/...
- Reposted by Delaney PetersonHow do adolescents form their political views, and are they really so different from adults? Next Friday (Nov 7), the IP-PAD Doctoral Network and @hotpoliticslab.bsky.social host a conference in Amsterdam on adolescents and politics (attached program). DM or email j.kasper@uva.nl to join.
- Reposted by Delaney Peterson🎓 This Friday (31.10): another Graduate Friday at the #HotPoliticsLab! Gustavo Couto de Jesus and Hannes Bey will present their work on party cue processing, and origins of the political trust crisis. 📍 Location: Common Room (REC-B9.22) 💻 Or join us online 👉 teams.microsoft.com/dl/launcher/...
- Reposted by Delaney PetersonMy first publication :) in Social Media + Society with @fhopp.bsky.social, Michael Hameleers & @lindabos.bsky.social: “Moral Foundations of Populist Communication.” We found populists lean more on Care/Authority plus they shift moral tone across platforms more than mainstreamers. shorturl.at/ip9i4
- Reposted by Delaney Peterson🎓 This Friday (17.10): another Graduate Friday at the #HotPoliticsLab! We’re excited to hear Linda Bomm and Daniel Komáromy present their work on societal threats and support for the radical right. 📍 Location: Common Room (REC-B9.22) 💻 Or join us online 👉 teams.microsoft.com/dl/launcher/...
- Reposted by Delaney Peterson🚀🎉 Thrilled to share that the first paper of my PhD dissertation is now published in Political Studies Review: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Does social media help women politicians overcome barriers in visibility - or does it just replicate old hierarchies? A short 🧵
- Reposted by Delaney Peterson🚨 New publication out @jeppjournal.bsky.social w/ Katrin Praprotnik @luanarusso.bsky.social @markuswagner.bsky.social We show that coalition signals from the mainstream right to the radical right shift, rather than reduce, existing political divisions. Open-access article: doi.org/10.1080/1350...
- Reposted by Delaney Peterson- Posted two new preprints (with @bnbakker.bsky.social @delaneypeterson.bsky.social & Maaike Homan) On politics and mental health: osf.io/preprints/ps... On politicians’ emotional appeals and voting: osf.io/preprints/ps...
- New pre-print! Is there a need for domain-specificity when studying mental health (MH) and politics? In our study in the Netherlands, we find political mental health (PMH) is distinct from MH & has unique political correlates, from polarization to ideological extremism. doi.org/10.31234/osf...
- The literature on MH and politics spans various disorders and political outcomes. Recently, there has been a turn to domain-specific concepts (i.e., political health, political anxiety). What would domain-specificity contribute to our understanding of politics beyond traditional MH measures? (2/9)
- To investigate this, we test and compare the construct and predictive validity of domain-specific PMH and MH in a study conducted in the Dutch population. Through our tests of construct validity, we find PMH is an independent construct to MH. (3/9)
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View full threadThis research was conducted with @gijsschumacher.bsky.social, @fhopp.bsky.social and @bnbakker.bsky.social and was funded by the NWO, the ERC and the University of Amsterdam. (9/9)
- Reposted by Delaney Peterson🎓 Upcoming Friday (26.09), we are delighted to host Professor Atsushi Tago to the #HotPoliticsLab! He will give a talk on disgust and the perceived costs of war. 📍 Location: Common Room (REC-B9.22) 💻 Or join us online 👉 teams.microsoft.com/dl/launcher/... See you Friday!
- Reposted by Delaney Peterson🎓 This Friday (19.09), we are honored to welcome professor @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social to the #HotPoliticsLab! She will present her work on Facebook user reactions to party campaigning. 📍 Location: Common Room (REC-B9.22) 💻 Or join us online 👉 teams.microsoft.com/dl/launcher/...
- Reposted by Delaney PetersonThis Friday (12.09), we kick off the academic year at the #HotPoliticsLab with our very own (and recently appointed!) professor Gijs Schumacher! He will present his work on emotions and political behavior. Join us in the Common Room (REC-B9.22) or online via teams.microsoft.com/dl/launcher/...
- Reposted by Delaney Peterson✨ New Academic Year, New Speaker Series! ✨ We hope you all had a wonderful summer break. We’re thrilled to announce the #HotPoliticsLab Speaker Series lineup for the first semester of the 25/26 academic year. We look forward to welcoming you back for another year of thought-provoking discussions!
- Reposted by Delaney Peterson📣 OA Publication alert! 📣 "Says who? The role of party cues in explaning the positive and negative consequences of political moral appeals in Europe" In Party Politics #thread journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
- Reposted by Delaney Peterson"Misschien is een beetje frictie en emotie soms juist nodig om de democratie levendig en relevant te houden." Heel mooie blog over polarisatie en democratie door @turkenburgemma.bsky.social en @lisajanssen.bsky.social. stukroodvlees.nl/polarisatie-...
- Reposted by Delaney Peterson1/4 My first dissertation paper is now out with @bnbakker.bsky.social & @gijsschumacher.bsky.social! Do our brains quickly encode partisan bias when simply viewing politicians’ faces? The paper: doi.org/10.1080/1747... Journalistic article by Psypost: www.psypost.org/early-brain-...
- Reposted by Delaney PetersonHeel trots op @ellenlnt.bsky.social @tobiaskleineidam.bsky.social, Henrik Pröpper, Anna Wickenkamp en Annamijn Beijeman die onder hoge druk mooi verkiezingsonderzoek voorbereiden @ascor.bsky.social.
- Reposted by Delaney PetersonHere is my (a little bit belated) mandatory #IPSA2025 post! I will present tomorrow on disability representation and emotion! See you there ✨
- Reposted by Delaney PetersonFrom our new issue: On Political Misogyny by SUZANNE DOVI www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
- Reposted by Delaney PetersonOur new book THE PSYCHOLOGY OF ATTACK POLITICS is out next month! 🔥📚 We offer a new look at negativity effects, via perceptions & evaluations🤔😱👿🤣 You can pre-order it with a nice 20% discount on the cover price (for paperbacks this makes it £32 or so) Check out discount code & link in the flyer 👇
- Reposted by Delaney PetersonAre we good at describing our feelings about politics? In our new preprint @mrooduijn.bsky.social @isabellareb.bsky.social we show this is not the case: osf.io/preprints/os... [1/6]
- Reposted by Delaney PetersonDelighted that my first book was awarded the 2025 Francesco Guicciardini Prize for Best Book in Historical International Relations! Many thanks to the prize committee and to my friends and colleagues in the Historical IR section at ISA!
- Reposted by Delaney PetersonIf you are interested in extracting moral values from text corpora, check out our latest resource, the extended Morality as Cooperation Dictionary (eMACD). Led by the brilliant @musamalik.bsky.social, we show that eMACD surpasses the (predictive) validity of previous moral foundations dictionaries 📕
- Finally, it is published 😀 open access: The Extended Morality as Cooperation Dictionary (eMACD): A Crowd-Sourced Approach via the Moral Narrative Analyzer Platform www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.....
- Reposted by Delaney PetersonDo people accurately judge the public opinion climate during crises? Using 2 yrs of data, our study dives into perceptions of public opinion on COVID‑19 measures, why those views often missed the mark, and what can help correct them! Now in @polcommjournal.bsky.social 🧵👇 doi.org/10.1080/1058...
- Reposted by Delaney Peterson🚨 “We just need to recognize that we’re all citizens of this country.” –– Politicians + citizens often stress a shared national identity when trying to bridge racial, partisan, or other group divides. @stysyropoulos.bsky.social & I show why such “shared” identities are doomed to fail. 🧵1/9
- Reposted by Delaney PetersonBarry Blitt’s cover for this week’s issue, “The First Hundred Days.” #NewYorkerCovers nyer.cm/ysrCZ47
- Reposted by Delaney PetersonPundits 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)
- Reposted by Delaney Peterson🚨 New open-access publication out in the European Journal of Political Research! @markuskollberg.bsky.social and I examine how coalition government performance shapes affective polarization between coalition partners—and find that it matters. 🧵 1/6 ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
- Reposted by Delaney PetersonHappy to share my first solo-authored paper - now published in the Journal of Media Psychology. In this experiment, I investigated how thematic vs episodic news frames influence learning and explored the role of individual framing preferences in these effects. econtent.hogrefe.com/doi/full/10....
- Reposted by Delaney Peterson📢Exciting news! We are happy to learn that the University of Amsterdam holds the number one position in the QS Rankings for #Communication and #Media Studies for the eighth consecutive year.
- Reposted by Delaney PetersonHooray, U Amsterdam ranked as #1 in the world, again, in media and communication. Celebration time 🍾..., right? No 🟥 Dutch universities are faced with de-internationalisation and de-funding. The frustration is palpable! #DoeHetNiet @woinactie.bsky.social 🟥 www.topuniversities.com/university-s...
- Reposted by Delaney Peterson🚨My small book with @cambridgeuppolisci.bsky.social on timely #empathy #politics is online and I can't be happier! 🚨 shorturl.at/jZyPz *The manuscript can be accessed freely for the next 2 weeks!* The book builds on my PhD thesis, defended @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social
- Reposted by Delaney Peterson🚨 What do people need to feel included? Byron G. Adams & I examine this question in a new publication in GPIR. We find that it doesn’t suffice to belong to a group but that people also need to be recognized for what is making them unique within that group. 🔽 journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
- Reposted by Delaney PetersonRegulation versus innovation is a false choice set. That’s the post.
- Reposted by Delaney PetersonWhat drives candidates' use of negative campaigning? We suggest and empirically test a comprehensive theoretical model in 12 German state elections. Now out in EPSR 👇
- New publication with @corinnaoschatz.bsky.social , @sebstier.bsky.social, Mona Dian and @msaeltzer.bsky.social. We explain why our understanding of negative campaigning as rational behavior is too narrow. We show that other mechanisms also influence attack behavior. doi.org/10.1017/S175...
