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The Body Politics Lab supports the work of the Canada Research Chair in Political Psychology (Tier 2) and is funded by the Canada Foundation for Innovation, pursuing the following objectives:

1. Compare physiological responses to political engagement to other risk-taking activities, with the intent to design better deliberative spaces;

The Body Politics Lab aims at uncovering how human bodies react in and to political spaces and stimuli through various physiological measures and political treatments.

2. Explore how individuals respond in political and non-political conversations, and whether gender impacts the quality and content of discussion;

The Body Politics Lab is currently collaborating with the Social Behaviour Lab at the University of Western Ontario in conducting Social Signals (details coming soon).

3. Measure individual physiological responses when social spaces become political;

4. Identify how physical appearance impacts evaluations of political actors.

The Body Politics Lab supports the work of the Canada Research Chair in Political Psychology (Tier 2) and is funded by the Canada foundation for Innovation.

The BPL Objectives

 

Compare physiological responses to political engagement to design better deliberative spaces

 

Explore responses in political versus non-political conversations and the impact of gender on discussion

 

Measure individual physiological responses when social spaces become political

 

Identify how physical appearance impacts evaluations of political actors

The BPL Team

Amanda Friesen, P.I

Professor Friesen is interested in how social identities and individual dispositions interact with social and political contexts. Her methodological approaches draw from behaviour genetics, psychophysiology, personality psychology, experimental design, and other social and life science methods.

Jamie Chow

Project Director
Jamie is interested in the role of cognition, personality traits, astrology, introspection, intrusive thoughts, and imaginary world-building in relationship to political attitudes and behaviours.
jchow244@uwo.ca

Jesse Mehravar

Lab Manager, Project Director
Jesse is interested in the political implications of emotions and national identity, particularly in linking affect towards national identities to political attitudes.
jmehravar@uwo.ca

Noah Vanderhoeven

Project Director
Noah is interested in political behaviour, more specifically social identities, and how people form attitudes and beliefs. Specifically, he is studying the intersection of sports fandom identities and broader social identities like sexuality and gender in political behaviour.
nvande43@uwo.ca

Axel Déry

adery2@uwo.ca
Axel's principal research interest lies in the use of randomized experiments to study the ways in which individuals reason about politics, as well as the study of political persuasion. On a more theoretical level, Axel is also interested in how people elaborate attitudes toward economic redistribution.

Hugo Machado

hmachad2@uwo.ca
Hugo is drawn to research in political psychology and behaviour. His main topics of interest are morality politics, the psychology of repressive political attitudes, authoritarianism, health policies, and the politics of law and order.

The Body Politics Lab Team

Amanda Friesen, P.I

Professor Friesen is interested in how social identities and individual dispositions interact with social and political contexts. Her methodological approaches draw from behaviour genetics, psychophysiology, personality psychology, experimental design, and other social and life science methods.

Jamie Chow

Project Director
Jamie is interested in the role of cognition, personality traits, astrology, introspection, intrusive thoughts, and imaginary world-building in relationship to political attitudes and behaviours.
jchow244@uwo.ca

Jesse Mehravar

Lab Manager, Project Director
Jesse is interested in the political implications of emotions and national identity, particularly in linking affect towards national identities to political attitudes.
jmehravar@uwo.ca

Noah Vanderhoeven

Project Director
Noah is interested in political behaviour, more specifically social identities, and how people form attitudes and beliefs. Specifically, he is studying the intersection of sports fandom identities and broader social identities like sexuality and gender in political behaviour.
nvande43@uwo.ca

Axel Déry

adery2@uwo.ca
Axel's principal research interest lies in the use of randomized experiments to study the ways in which individuals reason about politics, as well as the study of political persuasion. On a more theoretical level, Axel is also interested in how people elaborate attitudes toward economic redistribution.

Hugo Machado

hmachad2@uwo.ca
Hugo is drawn to research in political psychology and behaviour. His main topics of interest are morality politics, the psychology of repressive political attitudes, authoritarianism, health policies, and the politics of law and order.
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