Hi! I am an Associate Professor of Political Communication and Journalism at the Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR), University of Amsterdam. I hold a PhD in political science from the University of Geneva (2010).
My research focuses on the dark side of political communication, voting behaviour, political psychology, and campaigning effects, along six main research lines:
I am currently directing a research project that maps the use of negative campaigning in elections across the world, which has already collected data for 190+ elections since June 2016 based on judgments of 2,200+ country experts. Version 2.0 of the NEGex dataset can be downloaded for free here. I am also interested in dynamics of meta-science, and am currently directing a large-scale study about peer reviewing practices in social sciences worldwide.
From January 2025 I am Editor of the European Journal of Political Research. I have in the past been Associate Editor at the Journal of Elections, Public Opinion & Parties and the Journal of Social and Political Psychology.
Two new books came out in 2025: The Psychology of Negative Electoral Campaigns. Perceptions, Evaluations, and Effects (with L. Otto & C. Vargiu; Routledge), and the Elgar Encyclopedia of Political Communication (with M. Grömping & D. Wirz; Edward Elgar Publishing).
You can check out my published books and articles here. Replication data and materials for my recent publications can be found in my Open Science Foundation (OSF) repository.
Dark Politics won the 2024 Juliette and Alexander L. George Outstanding Political Psychology Book Award, awarded by the International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP)!
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