GS
Gijs Schumacher
@gijsschumacher.bsky.social
Associate Professor Political Science @UvA_Amsterdam
Research: political psychology; emotions
Director @Hotpoliticslab
Blog @stukroodvlees
Website: gijsschumacher.nl
472 followers234 following24 posts
What emotions should politicians show, according to their voters? Just uploaded a new preprint in which I investigate this using several American and Dutch samples [1/5] osf.io/preprints/ps...
The surprise finding is that from left to right voters much prefer their politicians using positive emotions compared to negative emotions. This is true for Democrats (see paper), in the Netherlands (see below) [2/5]
GS
Gijs Schumacher
@gijsschumacher.bsky.social
Associate Professor Political Science @UvA_Amsterdam
Research: political psychology; emotions
Director @Hotpoliticslab
Blog @stukroodvlees
Website: gijsschumacher.nl
472 followers234 following24 posts