Researching the political mind and how political beliefs develop 🧠 Doctoral candidate in the MSCA Network ippad.eu & Centre for the Politics of Feelings - @rhulpsychology.bsky.social 👥 Previously research assistant @univie.ac.at 🐕https://bsky.app/profile/olafborghi.comhttps://bsky.app/profile/olafborghi.com/post/3m57pmwaqvs2mWhat a week at the IP-PAD meeting in Amsterdam, where our doctoral network met for training and a conference on youth politics!! I also presented a poster on my recent work on young people's future anxiety and political views (read more here: shorturl.at/Rpc0y)! Super grateful for the fun time! :)09 Nov 2025 18:15 +0000at://did:plc:ckustvz2nresnf32ftdva4zg/app.bsky.feed.post/3m57pmwaqvs2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/olafborghi.com/post/3m2tot47oi22q🔍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 https://advances.in/psychology/10.56296/aip00042/#ftoc-heading-2910 Oct 2025 12:38 +0000at://did:plc:ckustvz2nresnf32ftdva4zg/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2tot47oi22qhttps://bsky.app/profile/olafborghi.com/post/3m2tot47oi22q🔍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 https://advances.in/psychology/10.56296/aip00042/#ftoc-heading-2910 Oct 2025 12:38 +0000at://did:plc:ckustvz2nresnf32ftdva4zg/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2tot47oi22qhttps://bsky.app/profile/olafborghi.com/post/3lykojvbgvs2umarginaleffects is one of my favourite R packages and this is such a great paper!! extremely recommended, alongside all other papers from the two authors and also the amazing and free Model to Meaning book marginaleffects.com [contains quote post or other embedded content]11 Sep 2025 11:49 +0000at://did:plc:ckustvz2nresnf32ftdva4zg/app.bsky.feed.post/3lykojvbgvs2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/olafborghi.com/post/3luko34za6s27This is incredible work, such an insanely cool paper and findings! Quite alarming that "[post-training and prompting methods that] increased AI persuasiveness [...] also systematically decreased factual accuracy" [contains quote post or other embedded content]22 Jul 2025 14:00 +0000at://did:plc:ckustvz2nresnf32ftdva4zg/app.bsky.feed.post/3luko34za6s27https://bsky.app/profile/olafborghi.com/post/3lt4otwhv4g26This book is highly recommended! Bonus is that I genuinely enjoyed working through it when it first came out [contains quote post or other embedded content]04 Jul 2025 07:11 +0000at://did:plc:ckustvz2nresnf32ftdva4zg/app.bsky.feed.post/3lt4otwhv4g26https://bsky.app/profile/olafborghi.com/post/3lsy4as4zb226(1/6) #ISPP2025 is just one day away and I can't wait to be in Prague! It will be the first conference I attend during my PhD - looking forward to all the interesting sessions, catching up with friends, and meeting new people! 🤩 #PsychSciSky #polisky #CogSci #polpsy02 Jul 2025 11:27 +0000at://did:plc:ckustvz2nresnf32ftdva4zg/app.bsky.feed.post/3lsy4as4zb226https://bsky.app/profile/olafborghi.com/post/3lsy4as4zb226(1/6) #ISPP2025 is just one day away and I can't wait to be in Prague! It will be the first conference I attend during my PhD - looking forward to all the interesting sessions, catching up with friends, and meeting new people! 🤩 #PsychSciSky #polisky #CogSci #polpsy02 Jul 2025 11:27 +0000at://did:plc:ckustvz2nresnf32ftdva4zg/app.bsky.feed.post/3lsy4as4zb226https://bsky.app/profile/olafborghi.com/post/3lkqidg2k222uIn politics, people are not always truth seekers. Often, we reach conclusions because they fit with preferred political narratives: we are biased by ideological motivations. But are some people better equipped to overcome such bias than others? 🚨 Find out in the first pre-print from my PhD 🚨19 Mar 2025 15:21 +0000at://did:plc:ckustvz2nresnf32ftdva4zg/app.bsky.feed.post/3lkqidg2k222u