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Amanda Friesen

@amandafriesen.bsky.social
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Canada Research Chair in Political Psychology, Associate Professor at University of Western Ontario, Brighton & Hove Albion, fantasy fiction, bubbly alcohol, quaint detective series

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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 29/09/2026
#OpenAccess from Politics and the Life Sciences - Rethinking masculinity in politics: Measuring what matters - cup.org/4y2k1tO - Claire Gothreau & @amandafriesen.bsky.social #FirstView
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The Forum - De Gruyter @theforum-degruyter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Submissions are open for our special issue on Sports and American Politics, with guest-editors @amandafriesen.bsky.social and Christopher Dawes. Deadline is 12/1. See flyer below for more details! mc.manuscriptcentral.com/dgforum
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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 15/09/2026
#OpenAccess from Politics and the Life Sciences - Rethinking masculinity in politics: Measuring what matters - cup.org/4y2k1tO - Claire Gothreau & @amandafriesen.bsky.social #FirstView
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Amanda Friesen @amandafriesen.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Chris Dawes (NYU) and I are editing a special issue of The Forum on Sports and American Politics. Deadline for full papers is December 1. We welcome a variety of methods and levels of analysis! Happy to answer questions.
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Melissa Baker @melissabaker.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Looking for something to do Friday morning at APSA? @amandafriesen.bsky.social & I put together a panel on mental health, wellbeing, & political behavior! 10am at the Westin.
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Fatih Erol @fatiherol.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
New in @ispp-pops.bsky.social: “Waking up to politics: How sleep quality relates to political participation”: doi.org/10.1111/pops... With @nmicatka.bsky.social & @aleksks.bsky.social, we examined how sleep quality relates to voter turnout & non-electoral participation across multiple countries.🧵1/8
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Olaf Borghi @olafborghi.com · 10/10/2025
🔍How does young people's anxiety about the future relate to their political attitudes? Find out in my first PhD paper, just published in the special issue "The Psychology of Pushback" at advances.in/psychology/1...
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Facing a dark future: Young people’s future anxiety and political attitudes in the UK and Greece
Study finds future anxiety linked to more conservative views among young men, but not young women, in the UK and Greece.
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Amanda Friesen @amandafriesen.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
As project director for my lab’s sport and politics theme, Noah Vanderhoeven is doing cool work on fandom as social identity. He’s been on a media run talking about Bluejays as Canada’s team. www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
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Political science PhD candidate Noah Vanderhoeven on the Blue Jays as a unifying force for Canada
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Michał Gulczyński @gulczynski.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Many studies attribute the success of right-wing parties to sexism. What is sexism? How is it measured? How does it influence elections? My systematic review of studies on sexism as a predictor of political behavior and attitudes is about to appear in @poqjournal.bsky.social! 1/7
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Tiago Ventura @tiagoventura.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
How common are “survey professionals” - people who take dozens of online surveys for pay - across online panels, and do they harm data quality? Our paper, FirstView at @politicalanalysis.bsky.social, tackles this question using browsing data from three U.S. samples (Facebook, YouGov, and Lucid):
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PS: Political Science & Politics @pspolisci.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Now on FirstView ft. @pauldjupe.bsky.social and @amandafriesen.bsky.social! Political scientists are active in politics, but primarily in ways that share research findings and tend to avoid visible partisan politics. doi.org/10.1017/S104... #polisky #academisky #politics #research
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Paul Djupe @pauldjupe.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Ever wondered how politically active political scientists are? Well, we did and asked a sample of us how much and what their beliefs are about being overtly, wear-it-on-your-sleeve active. The dominant perspective is that partisan politics tarnishes our credibility for the public. (1/2)
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Amanda Friesen @amandafriesen.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
In 2024, we surveyed US scholars about how, when, why they do (or don’t!) personally participate. We find a few patterns, some differences by subfield and variation in our attitudes toward the place of personal politics in our work, especially the impacts on our credibility with the public.
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Paul Djupe @pauldjupe.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
*Readers should be extremely careful about accepting claims that worship attenders are actually more liberal.* Those findings are usually an artifact of stat modeling decisions. Excited to see this posted in Sociology. While it may seem like inside baseball, the public implications are important.
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Contexts Magazine @contexts.org · 02/09/2025
New on the blog! Political scientists @pauldjupe.bsky.social @amandafriesen.bsky.social @aesokhey.bsky.social and Jacob R. Neiheisel do some debunking: "Attending Church Encourages Acceptance of Atheists? No, It's a Suppression Effect" contexts.org/blog/atheist... #polisci #religion #sociology
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Political Science - Western University @westernupolisci.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Don’t miss the spotlight on Professor @amandafriesen.bsky.social's "300 Words on Political Stress" >> magazine.westernu.ca/political-st... <<
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300 Words on ... - Western Alumni Magazine
Amanda Friesen is the Canada Research Chair in Political Psychology and a professor of political science and psychology at Western.
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Amanda Friesen @amandafriesen.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Come work with me/us!!! Happy to answer questions about our dept, Western, and Canadian academia. I absolutely love it here and highly recommend. Several of us will be at APSA and happy to meet. 🇨🇦
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Amanda Friesen @amandafriesen.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
We are very excited to have the brilliant @blairwelsh.bsky.social joining the Dept of Political Science @westernu.ca! Look for big things and important work in empirical IR; great for us and great for Canada! politicalscience.uwo.ca/about_us/new...
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Current news and announcements from the Department of Political Science at Western University.
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Amanda Friesen @amandafriesen.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
New at Pol Behavior, our crew of R&P scholars uncover suppression effects in extant Christian nationalism studies. In sum, consistent relationship between religious behavior and conservative views stands.
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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
New study from @pauldjupe.bsky.social et al. out in @polbehavior.bsky.social. We've often found Christian nationalism & churchgoing are signed in opposite directions in regressions. Authors propose viewing such findings as suppression effects & explore implications. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Attending Church Encourages Acceptance of Atheists? Suppression Effects in Religion and Politics Research - Political Behavior
A proliferation of religion variables presents opportunities for those studying religion and politics in the U.S. However, many studies in this growing subfield demonstrate the pitfalls of reporting t...
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Amanda Friesen @amandafriesen.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Excellent and very important work on understanding self reported emotions. People do not mean what we think they feel when it comes to politics! Special shout to @isabellareb.bsky.social - it’s been incredible to see her line of inquiry develop over the years!
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Amanda Friesen @amandafriesen.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
With upcoming 🇨🇦 election and a lot on voters’ minds, check out our new pub that assesses the most important issues and affective language from the last two Canadian elections in 2019, 2021.
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Politics & Gender @politicsgenderj.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
📢New issue of #PAG21 is out!📢 @erincassese.bsky.social & @amandafriesen.bsky.social outline the major contributions to the literature on women voters published by P&G over the last 20 years and suggest future research agendas. gendersky polisky buff.ly/4hDqyIU
Research article "A Look Back At 20 Years of Research on Gender and Voting in Politics & Gender" by Erin C. Cassese & Amanda Friesen. 
Abstract reads: This essay highlights the impact of Politics & Gender on the discipline’s understanding of how gender shapes the preferences, behavior, and motivations of voters. It provides descriptive information about the prevalence of research on gender and voting in the journal, along with the proportion of articles dedicated to women voters across different regions globally. The bulk of the essay focuses on the substance of this research — drawing out major themes and identifying significant contributions within each theme — and it concludes by offering a future research agenda on gender and voting.
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Amanda Friesen @amandafriesen.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Canadians also get stressed, albeit politely, of course. Here is my take on how to handle political information anxiety: www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
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Managing the stress of news overload in a time of political unrest and global conflict
The news is coming at us hard and fast these days. But is all this information helping us stay informed—or is it just overwhelming? Amanda Friesen, the Canada Research Chair in Political Psychology an...
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Lena Masch @lenamasch.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
📢 New Publication: @jedinger.bsky.social and I have explored the relationshop between need for closure, political trust and COVID conspiracy beliefs using data from the @gesis-panel.bsky.social . Open access: www.frontiersin.org/journals/soc...
Abstract of the article "Need for cognitive closure, political trust, adn belief in conspiracy theories during the COVID-19 pandemic"
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Erin Cassese @erincassese.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
New article out today celebrating the 20th anniversary of Politics & Gender! -Over the past two decades, about 18% of PAG’s articles focused on gender and voting. -This work has been cited about 6700 times, with an average citation count of 48 per article! Open Access at doi.org/10.1017/S174...
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A Look Back At 20 Years of Research on Gender and Voting in Politics &amp; Gender | Politics &amp; Gender | Cambridge Core
A Look Back At 20 Years of Research on Gender and Voting in Politics &amp; Gender
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Amanda Friesen @amandafriesen.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Subfield and topical journals are so important for advancing and holding space for research often out of the mainstream. Here @erincassese.bsky.social and I review 20 years of gender and voting published in @politicsgenderj.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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A Look Back At 20 Years of Research on Gender and Voting in Politics &amp; Gender | Politics &amp; Gender | Cambridge Core
A Look Back At 20 Years of Research on Gender and Voting in Politics &amp; Gender
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Erin Cassese @erincassese.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Happy New Year! Our Cambridge Element is now available! In it, @hondercin.bsky.social, Jordan Randall, and I use data from the ANES @electionstudies.bsky.social to glean new insights into how the American public thinks about abortion rights. Free downloads til Jan 31st doi.org/10.1017/9781...
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Abortion Attitudes and Polarization in the American Electorate
Cambridge Core - Politics: General Interest - Abortion Attitudes and Polarization in the American Electorate
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Amanda Friesen @amandafriesen.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
theconversation.com/benevolent-s... Kate Hunt and I try to apply our Irish SMO research to the recent US campaigns. In sum, is appealing to the protection of women relatives a good way to mobilize men?
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Benevolent sexism competed with hypermasculinity in high-stakes campaigns in the U.S. and Ireland
The U.S. presidential election campaign and the Irish referendum on abortion in 2018 raise questions about whether a political messaging strategy focused on ‘real men’ is effective.
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Amanda Friesen @amandafriesen.bsky.social · 06/08/2024
Harris-Walz sounds like a British footballer known for set pieces and corners. Approve.
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Amanda Friesen @amandafriesen.bsky.social · 21/07/2024
2024: I did not have a plan for voting from Canada. Today: HOW DO I GET THAT INDIANA BALLOT?! Feeling that ‘enthusiasm mobilizes’ theory full tilt.
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Amanda Friesen @amandafriesen.bsky.social · 30/08/2023
I am honoured to officially announce I am in the latest cohort of Canada Research Chairs, a program providing resources and importantly TIME to advance innovation. Check out our work/my amazing team. Now accepting new PhDs for 2024! bodypoliticslab.amandafriesen.com news.westernu.ca/2023/08/cana...
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Amanda Friesen @amandafriesen.bsky.social · 29/08/2023
Funding of Open Science alert! Assoc for Politics & Life Sciences has a new competition for three grants of $4000. Details here: uwo.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_.... These grants are part of our commitment to funding open science through registered reports. Apps are Due OCT 1st.
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mark brandt @mjbsp.bsky.social · 22/08/2023
Inconsistent and very weak associations (at best) between childhood personality and general conservatism, social conservatism, and economic conservative. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... PoliSky #psychscisky #socialpsyc
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Amanda Friesen @amandafriesen.bsky.social · 28/08/2023
Two years in Canada and trying to be more outdoorsy. Like reading novels for hours on end, but outside, here. I’ll wear a flannel. 🍁
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Amanda Friesen @amandafriesen.bsky.social · 28/08/2023
"Mind how you go." DCI Thursday, Endeavour, every other episode.
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Amanda Friesen @amandafriesen.bsky.social · 28/08/2023
"I was a charming freight train." Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, S1:E10
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Amanda Friesen @amandafriesen.bsky.social · 28/08/2023
"You know what they say, politics is show biz for ugly people." - DCI Wilkes, Agatha Raisin S3:E3.
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