626. You don’t need to look at the eyes of your audience to be perceived as making eye contact (Rogers et al. 2019) 627. Shaking a bottle of champagne slightly decreases the pressure inside (Vreme et al. 2015) 628. The return trip often seems shorter than the initial trip, even when the distance traveled and […]
Category: science
Some papers I reviewed that got accepted
Most of the papers I review for scientific journals are not accepted. However, there are several examples of good papers I reviewed that ended up getting accepted. I had a look at some of these reviews and in this post I bring a few examples. In all cases, none of my feedback is significant and […]
New article in Electoral Studies: Asymmetric realignment
I have a new article in Electoral Studies titled Asymmetric realignment: Immigration and right party voting. The article is co-authored with Matthew Goodwin and Eric Kaufmann. Here is the abstract: The second decade of the twenty-first century witnessed a significant ‘rightward drift’ as populists in the West scored striking electoral gains. We argue that this […]
Donald Trump’s defeat and electoral contagion
A new study argues that Donald Trump’s 2020 electoral defeat had a sizeable negative effect on expressed support for the far-right party VOX in Spain. Here is what the study shows: Empirically, we demonstrate that the (naturally occurring) treatment assignment afforded by the quasi-experimental setting in Spain led to a significant fall in self-reported voting […]
Elsevier Highlights
When I have published in a journal managed by Elsevier, I have had to fill out ‘Highlights’. According to Elsevier, these highlights are ‘bullet points that help increase the discoverability of your article via search engines.’ My problem with this is not only that we already have keywords for journal articles, but that I do […]