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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.

afries4@uwo.ca

amandafriesen.com

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1. Social Signals: The Dynamics of Naturalistic In-person Political Conversations

Funded by Canada Foundation for Innovation

2. Stress and Politics: Improving Measurement and Devising Interventions to Mitigate Politically-induced Stress

Funded by SSHRC Insight

3. Form is Temporary, Leadership is Permanent: Investigating the Role of Sport Participation on Political Engagement and Leadership

4. The Appearance of Political Actors: A series of studies on how weight stigma, gender presentation, and attractiveness impact candidate evaluation and success

5. Scandals and Success: Cataloguing Canadian Candidate Scandals and Responses and their Impact on Political Donations

Funded by SSHRC Insight Development Grant

The Body Politics Lab supports the work of the Canada Research Chair in Political Psychology 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 social cognition and stereotype content, particularly concerning warmth and competence, in explaining gender differences in political behaviour as it relates to the political mobilization of mothers.
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.
jesse.mehravar@rhul.ac.uk

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

Cole Stevenson

csteve59@uwo.ca
Cole is exploring his research interests within political psychology, with a particular curiosity about health, cognition, personality, socialization, and collective behaviour.

Samantha Jones

samantha.jones@uwo.ca
Samantha is a PhD student in the Social, Personality and Developmental Psychology program at Western University. Her research focuses on how factors such as gender, emotion, and coping influence the connections formed and maintained in one’s social network both on and offline. She is particularly interested in how social networks grow and change during life transitions.
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