Gijs Schumacher (UvA)

Gijs Schumacher is Professor in Political Psychology at the Department of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam. He is also the co-Director of the Hot Politics Lab. He uses psychological concepts such as emotions, identity and personality to analyze large-scale political problems. Examples of such problems are polarization, the rise of authoritarian and populist parties, and the quality of representation. His work is interdisciplinary spanning from neuroscience to computer science to more traditional social scientific work. His most recent work focuses on how emotions weaken and strengthen the quality of democratic decision-making by adults and adolescents.