Our data on populist parties in European Parliament elections (PPEPE), from our article in the Electoral Studies, is now linked to the Party Facts. You can find it here. Party Facts, for people not already familiar with this amazing resource, links several datasets on political parties to make it easier for researchers to work with […]
Category: science
New article in Personality and Individual Differences: Personality in a pandemic
In the July issue of Personality and Individual Differences, you will find an article I have co-authored with Steven G. Ludeke, Joseph A. Vitriol and Miriam Gensowski. In the paper, titled Personality in a pandemic: Social norms moderate associations between personality and social distancing behaviors, we demonstrate when Big Five personality traits are more likely […]
25 interesting facts #8
176. Governments in countries that experienced SARS in 2003 were quicker to implement social distancing policies to combat COVID-19 in 2020 (Ru et al. 2021) 177. Political parties that suffer electoral setbacks are more likely to change name (Kim and Solt 2017) 178. People underestimate their compliments’ value to others (Boothby and Bohns 2021) 179. […]
Noise
The world is full of noise. This is not a novel insight. Luckily, the power of statistical models to predict human behaviour is limited, and if a model is able to predict all relevant variation in an outcome of interest, we should be concerned about overfitting and other potential problems. There are good reasons why […]
Which party do you think is most likely to agree?
In a new poll, JL Partners surveyed more than 2,000 respondents to understand how the public perceives the Labour Party and the Conservative Party on a series of different “woke” topics. The Daily Mail uses the poll to conclude that “Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour Party is out of touch with public opinion”. Is that what […]