Future anxiety affects youth’s democratic support and engagement
A preregistered experiment with 1,895 young people on how future anxiety and hope shape democratic attitudes.
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I am a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for the Politics of Feelings at the University of London. Before that, I was a doctoral candidate in the Marie-Curie network “Interdisciplinary Perspectives of the Politics of Adolescence & Democracy” at Royal Holloway, University of London.
In my research, I investigate how political beliefs and attitudes develop, and the cognitive and emotional factors underlying this development. The developmental focus of my research works in two ways. First, I focus on adolescence and young adulthood, times of cognitive, emotional, and political change. Second, I study processes of belief development, examining how people change their minds based on new information, and different biases that affect political belief formation and updating. I also have a research focus on how young people feel about and imagine their future in times of multiple crises, and how this relates to their support for democracy and ideological views, including gender divides on political issues.
If you are interested in my work, would like to chat or collaborate, contact me!
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When democracy is worth the effort
Correcting misperceptions about political opponents increases partisans’ motivation to make pro-democratic efforts that benefit the other side.
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Bridging Divides: Can we really change people’s minds?
Guest on Episode 2 of the British Red Cross podcast series, talking about belief updating in politics and beyond.
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Mind over bias
Our paper on how cognitive control relates to politically motivated reasoning is out in Cognition.
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Facing a dark future
The first paper of my PhD, on young people’s future anxiety and political attitudes in the UK and Greece, is out in Advances.in/Psychology.
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Methodological interests and open science
My work has a strong methodological and interdisciplinary focus. I combine quantitative methods and tools from across the social, developmental, and cognitive sciences, including cognitive tasks, survey experiments, text analysis, and cognitive modelling. I also place a strong emphasis on open science, and commit to openly sharing data and materials for all my papers.