A great week for former students in our department!
Maaike Homan, former research master's student in our section, published the first paper of her dissertation 🥳
Her paper 'Facing emotional politicians: Do emotional displays of politicians evoke mimicry and emotional contagion?' with Gijs Schumacher and Bert Bakker highlights the need to study #emotions specifically in a political context.
For details, check the paper: https://psyarxiv.com/7edzh/
And Angelo Romano, former PhD student in our section, published a fascinating paper with Jörg Gross and Carsten De Dreu @ckwdd
In their paper 'Conflict Misperceptions between Citizens and Foreigners across the Globe' they report findings from a cross-cultural study 🌍 on asymmetric conflict. They document substantial #conflict misperceptions accounted for by differences in #institutions and history of conflict.
Read more here: https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/advance-article/doi/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgac267/6840235?login=false
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