Political emotions are experienced differently in the body compared to everyday feelings, and the intensity of these embodied emotions predicts higher political participation. doi.org/hb3qbz
New Scientist
Researchers have found our emotions toward politics not only play on our minds, but shape how our bodies respond to political experiences, even driving political participation higher.
You don’t just think about politics, you physically feel it in your body
Strong endorse, for so many reasons. Two of the reasons are that thinking takes time and creativity takes time.
The productivity machine turning everything into a numbers race is bad for the work and bad for the people doing the work.
Not a sentence I expected to write: Our research has been picked up by the @dailymail.co.uk
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If the articles from my PhD were my children this article now published in @bjpols.bsky.social is my favorite. Written together with truly amazing supervisors and mentors, Pieter de Wilde, Oliver Treib, and Lene Aarøe, I had the support I needed in bringing this baby into the world. Summary below 👇
A new study reveals that people physically feel political emotions differently than everyday feelings. These unique bodily sensations, like a tense chest, reliably predict whether someone will actually vote, protest, or engage in democracy.
Most Brits are probably feeling more than their usual share of political anxiety at the moment. Now, charts reveal exactly where your feelings about the current state of affairs are felt in the body.
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Venturing Beyond the Vote: Routes to Feeling Represented through Unelected Representation - cup.org/4lkNXKt
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🦋 I've got butterflies in my whole body today: our paper is out in @pnas.org! I'd say thats on theme..
Together with @alexgalvezpol.bsky.social, Sohee Park, and @mtsakiris.bsky.social we mapped how people feel political emotions in their bodies. Turns out politics doesn’t just play on our minds…
you can read the paper open access here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2534895123
🦋 I've got butterflies in my whole body today: our paper is out in @pnas.org! I'd say thats on theme..
Together with @alexgalvezpol.bsky.social, Sohee Park, and @mtsakiris.bsky.social we mapped how people feel political emotions in their bodies. Turns out politics doesn’t just play on our minds…
FWIW, I don’t think the major problem in my field, or related ones, is that people need to move faster & produce more.
I read a lot of papers as part of the job, and I’m increasingly convinced we’d benefit from fewer papers and better ones, not more mediocre work produced ever more “efficiently.”
