5TH ANNUAL UK POLITICAL PSYCHOLOGY CONFERENCE

5TH ANNUAL UK POLITICAL PSYCHOLOGY CONFERENCE [online]

27 February - 3 March 2023 - Free to speakers and participants

Event Highlights

- Keynote speakers

Professor Aleksandra Cichocka (University of Kent): Can ingroup love hurt? Collective narcissism and (mis)treatment of ingroup members

Professor Fathali Moghaddam (Georgetown University): Does political plasticity make democracy or dictatorship more likely?

- Roundtable

Get to Know ChatDPT : Teaching and Assessment in Times of AI. Chair: Tereza Capelos (University of Birmingham)

Event Summary

The conference brings together for the fifth year, academics and research students studying key issues in political psychology. The conference is held over five days and hosts 13 panels, an opening and a closing keynote, and a roundtable . Research presentations focus on different aspects of political psychology: Conspiracies, Deservingmess, Direct Democracy, Discrimination, Diversity, Emotions, Identities, Ideology, Inequality, Intergroup dynamics, Grievance Politics, Nationalism, Polarisation, Political Leadership, Populism, Radicalization.

The confirmed presentations programme of the event is listed below. Registered participants will receive an email invitation with the zoom links for each of the featured panels two days prior to the conference, and daily reminders.

11:00 – 11:25 Conference Welcome by the Organizers

11.30-13.00 Panel 1 Nations, nationalism and group identities: The political psychology of identity

14.00-15.30 Panel 2 Political behaviour and attitudes

15.30-17.00 Keynote Professor Aleksandra Cichocka (University of Kent): Can ingroup love hurt? Collective narcissism and (mis)treatment of ingroup members

09.30-11.00 Panel 3 Diversity and individual differences: Experiences and identities

11.30-13.00 Panel 4 Diversity and individual differences: Concepts and interventions

14.00-15.30 Panel 5 Political behaviour and vote choice

09.30-11.00 Panel 6 Affective polarisation and partisanship

11.30-13.00 Panel 7 Nations, nationalism and group identities: The political psychology of group dynamics

14.00-15.30 Panel 8 Citizen evaluations of political actors and democratic processes

09.30-11.00 Panel 9 Grievance politics: The political psychology of frustrations and aggression

11.30-13.00 Panel 10 Who gets what? The political psychology of deservingness

14.00-15.30 Panel 11 Polarisation, populist right-wing parties and minority discrimination

09.30-11.00 Panel 12 Beyond left and right – New directions in direct democracy

11.30-13.00 Panel 13 Purities and conspiracies – Getting underneath populism

14.00-15.30 Roundtable Get to know ChatGPT: Teaching and assessment in times of AI

15.30-17.00 Keynote Professor Fathali Moghaddam (Georgetown University): Does political plasticity make democracy or dictatorship more likely?

The conference is organised by Tabitha Baker (Bournemouth), Tereza Capelos (Birmingham, ICCS), Raynee Gutting (Essex), Jac Larner (Cardiff), Kesi Mahendran (Open University), Ben Seyd (Kent) and Ashley Weinberg (Salford) on behalf of the Political Psychology specialist group of the Political Studies Association, the Political Psychology section of the British Psychological Society (BPS), the International Political Psychology (IPoPsy) research group of the Institute for Conflict Cooperation and Security (ICCS) at the University of Birmingham, and the Political Psychology section of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR).

11.00 – 11.25Welcome by the organizers

11.30-13.00 Panel 1: Nations, nationalism and group identities – The political psychology of identity

Chair: Tabitha Baker (Bournemouth University)

- Double trouble: Sectarian and national narcissism as differential predictors of collective violence beliefs in Lebanon. Ramzi Abou-Ismail, Bjarki Gronfeldt, Aleksandra Cichocka, Joseph Phillips, and Nikhil Sengupta (University of Kent)

- ‘Are you Irish? Well, I am now!’ Discourses of national identity among the ‘Brexit Irish’. Marc Scully (Mary Immaculate College, Limerick)

- Death, mourning and orienting to the future: (Re)defining the British national character during Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral. Sandra Obradovic, Nuria Martinez, Sidney Bode, Nandita Dhanda, Evangelos Ntontis, Mhairi Bowe (The Open University, Canterbury Christ Church University, University of St Andrews, Heriot-Watt University)

- COVID-19 conspiracy theories reduce public health policy support: The mediating role of moral identity and morality-as-cooperation across 67 countries. Theofilos Gkinopoulos, Christian Truelsen Elbæk, Panagiotis Mitkidis (University of Social Sciences and Humanities; Sopot and Aarhus University)

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14.00-15.30 Panel 2: Political behaviour and attitudes

Chair: Raynee Gutting (Essex University)

- Empowering citizens through citizen assemblies in hybrid regimes. Nemanja Anđelković (University of Belgrade)

- Why do normative collective action(s) turn into non-normative ones? A cross-sectional study of Iranian Students. Saeed Keshavarzi (Independent Scholar), Huseyin Cakal (Keele Universiy), Ali Ruhani (Yazd University), Abbas Askari-nadoushan (Yazd University)

- Ideological and partisan predictors of climate change policy support in Australia. Francesca Aarons (Phillips University of Marburg), Edward Clarke (Phillips University of Marburg), Anna Klas (Deakin University, Geelong)

- The effects of threat and blame frames on affective polarisation: a neuroscience experiment. Martin Rosema (University of Twente), Elisa van der Plas, Lara Todorova, Karin Heidlmayr, Giedo Jansen, Alan G. Sanfey

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15.30-17.00 Keynote talk: Professor Aleksandra Cichocka (University of Kent) Can ingroup love hurt? Collective narcissism and (mis)treatment of ingroup members

09.30-11.00

Panel 3: Diversity and individual differences – Experiences and identities

Chair: Ashley Weinberg (Salford University)

- Coming out in national probability surveys: How tolerance shapes outgroup identification – The case of LGBT people in the European Union. Nico Buettner (University of Oxford)

- Not just black and white: A replication of intergroup contact in inter-minority settings. Nina Briggs (Queen’s University Belfast)

- The role of accents in shaping employees’ experience of work in elite organisations. Rebecca Ashley (University of Kent)

- The ideological side of diversity: Exploring ambivalence and semantic tensions of ‘diversity’ in lay speech. Stavroula Diamanti and Tilemachos Iatridis (University of Crete) and Irini Kadianaki (University of Cyprus)

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11.30-13.00

Panel 4: Diversity and individual differences - Concepts and interventions

Chair: Ashley Weinberg (Salford University)

- Myers-Briggs typology: Populist or progressive?. Steve Myers (University of Essex)

- Social factors in conspiracy thinking in an Indian context. Shruti Sharma and Mohammad Ghazi Shahnawaz (Jamia Millia Islamia)

- Intervention to address bullying at school. Teodora Palade and Emilia Pascal (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University)

- Food as a human right: Food precarity and the Good Food Nation Bill in Scotland. Catherine Lido and Kate Reid (Glasgow University)

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14.00-15.30

Panel 5: Political behaviour and vote choice Chair: Raynee Gutting (Essex University)

- In Pursuit of Racial Equality: Identifying the Determinants of Support for the Black Lives Matter Movement with a Systematic Review and Multiple Meta-Analyses. Flavio Azevedo (University of Cambridge)

- How Important Are Candidates’ Sociodemographic Characteristics to Britons? An Investigation Using Experimental and Electoral Data. Matthew Hepplewhite (University of Oxford)

- See No Difference? Political Sophistication and Party Similarity as Conditions of Leader Effects on Vote Choice. Nils Jungmann (GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences)

- Symptoms of Depression Reduce the Effect of Strength of Partisanship on Vote Choice. Luca Bernardi (University of Liverpool), Guillem Rico (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), Eva Anduiza (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

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09.30-11.00

Panel 6: Affective polarisation and partisanship

Chair: Kesi Mahendran (Open University)Presentations TBC.

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11.30-13.00

Panel 7: Nations, nationalism and group identities – The political psychology of group dynamics

Chair: Tabitha Baker (Bournemouth University)

- When less is more: Defensive national identity predicts sacrifice of ingroup profit to maximise the difference between groups. Bjarki Gronfeldt, Aleksandra Cislak, Gaëlle Marinthe, Aleksandra Cichocka (University of Kent; SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities; University of Paris)

- Ethnography of identity and social groups; in re-settled refugees in Scotland. Jennie S. Portice, Stephen D. Reicher and Samuel D. Pehrson (University of St Andrews)

- Democracy, group identity, and political entrepreneurs: Why people trade-off democracy for group interests. Filip Milacic (Friedrich Ebert Foundation)

- The emotion narrative of populism beyond affective intelligence and intergroup emotions. Cristiano Gianolla (University of Coimbra)

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14.00-15.30

Panel 8: Citizen evaluations of political actors and democratic processes

Chair: Ben Seyd (University of Kent)

- Voter response to prototypical and non-prototypical party leaders involved in moral transgressions. David Redlawsk (University of Delaware) and Annemarie Walter (University of Nottingham)

- Suspicious minds: Unexpected election outcomes and perceived electoral integrity. Philippe Mongrain (McGill University)

- Political trust and redistribution preferences: Evidence from randomised survey experiments and long-run panel data. Daniel Devine (University of Oxford)

- Subjective economic inequality and political trust: Evidence from a British panel. George Bolton (University of Southampton)

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09.30-11.00

Panel 9: Grievance politics – The political psychology of frustrations and aggression

Chair: Tereza Capelos (University of Birmingham)

- When push comes to shove – Who Americans excuse and condemn for political violence. Joseph Phillips (University of Kent), Kal Munis (Utah Valley University), Nicole Huffman (Stony Brook University), Arif Memovic (Pennsylvania State University), Jake Ford (Utah Valley University)

- Tough or tender? Which political orientations explain support for extreme and violent politics?. Lamprini Ror (University of Athens), Tereza Capelos (University of Birmingham), Vasiliki Georgiadou (Panteion University) and Anastasia Kafe (Panteion University)

- Grievance in extreme right-wing supporters: UKIP voter sources and targets of “deep grudges” and ambivalence about Nigel Farage’s leadership. Gavin Sullivan (International Psychoanalytical University, Berlin)

- Radicalism, identity construction and emotionality in social movements. #BogaziciDireniyor and the challenge to authoritarianism. Stavroula Chrona (University of Sussex) and Cristiano Bee (Oxford Brookes University)

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11.30-13.00

Panel 10: Who gets what? The political psychology of deservingness

Chair: Jac Larner (Cardiff University)

- Ukrainian refugees and deservingness in the context of ‘refugee fatigue’. Alina Dolea, Tabitha Baker and Dawid Pekalski (Bournemouth University)

- Welfare deservingness: the influence of nationalism, ideology and trust. Claire Nash (University of Strathclyde)

- The politics of moral expansion: Inclusion-exclusion mindsets and political ideology of the moral circle. Maryam Ali Khan (University of Edinburgh)

- Naming, shaming, and taming Wall Street: Political consequences of liberals’ prejudice, cynicism, and moralization of the economic world. Michael Edem Fiagbenu (Friedrich-Schiller University Jena)

- Immigrant personality traits and attitudes towards immigration. Nico Buettner and James Tilley (University of Oxford) and Sara Hobolt (LSE)

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14.00-15.30

Panel 11: Polarisation, populist right-wing parties and minority discrimination

Chair: Ben Seyd (University of Kent)

- Biased citizens rarely polarize: Confirmation bias and attitude change on salient issues. Davide Morisi (Turin)

- The impact of electoral performance of right-wing populist parties on political integration of Muslim immigrants in Western Europe. Andrej Cvetic (Trinity College Dublin)

- Ready or not: National identity, vote choice, and mass media – Evidence from Germany. Antonia C May (Gesis, Germany)

- Perceived discrimination among Muslim immigrants in the aftermath of terror attacks: Evidence from the German Socioeconomic Panel . Gizem Arikan (Trinity College Dublin) and Judit Ralbovszki (Lund University)

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09.30-11.00

Panel 12: Beyond left and right - New directions in direct democracy

Chair: Kesi Mahendran (Open University)

Presentations TBC.

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11.30-13.00

Panel 13: Purities and conspiracies - Getting underneath populism

Chair: Kesi Mahendran (Open University)

Presentations TBC.

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14.00-15.30

Roundtable: Get to know ChatGPT: Teaching and assessment in times of AI

Chair: Tereza Capelos, University of Birmingham

Speakers TBC

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15.30-17.00

Keynote talk: Professor Fathali Moghaddam (Georgetown University). Does political plasticity make democracy or dictatorship more likely?

END OF PROGRAMME

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