J. (Jakob) Kasper
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Postbus 15791
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Profile
I am a PhD candidate at ASCoR affiliated with the doctoral network ‘Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Politics of Adolescence and Democracy’ and the Hot Politics Lab.
Before joining the University of Amsterdam, I completed my Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Psychology at the University of Heidelberg (Germany) and spent a year as an exchange graduate student at Cornell University (USA).Research expertise
My research focuses on the intersection of social/cognitive psychology and politics. Specifically, I am interested in:
• How people, particularly adolescents, respond to pressing global challenges like the climate crisis and rising societal inequality
• How these challenges shape political identities and political polarization
• How we can enhance political engagement, bridge affective and fact-based divides within our society, and promote societal cooperation towards common societal goals. -
Publications
2025
- Kasper, J., & Gilovich, T. (in press). Do People Prefer to Share Political Information that Boosts their Ingroup or Derogates the Outgroup? Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.
2023
- Kasper, J., Fiedler, K., Kutzner, F., & Harris, C. (2023). On the role of exploitation and exploration strategies in the maintenance of cognitive biases: Beyond the pursuit of instrumental rewards. Memory & Cognition, 51, 1374–1387. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-023-01393-8
2024
- Kasper, J., Schumacher, G., & Bakker, B. N. (2024). Establishing the Construct and Predictive Validity of Brief Measures of Affective Polarization. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/gb32z
- Laffineur, C., Kasper, J., Te Brinke, L. W., Bakker, B. N., & Schumacher, G. (2024). Political Activism, Interest, and Affective Polarization: Dutch Adolescents and Adults are not that Different. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/aux5h
Media appearance
- Kasper, J., Bakker, B., Schumacher, G., Couto de Jesus, G., Laffineur, C. & Zaslove , M. (02-12-2024). Fact Sheet: Jongeren & Demokratie. Fact Sheet: Jongeren & Demokratie.
- Kasper, J., Crone, E., Te Brinke, L., Sweijen, S., Bakker, B., Schumacher, G., Couto de Jesus, G. & Laffineur, C. (01-12-2023). Wat vinden jonge mensen van de politiek?. Fact sheet: Jongeren & Politiek.
Talk / presentation
- Kasper, J. (speaker) (2024). Adolescents & Affective Polarization, Hot Politics Lab Speaker Series.
- Kasper, J. (speaker) (2024). Putting the Affect into Affective Polarization: New Insights into Conceptualization and Measurement, Hot Politics Lab Speaker Series.
- Kasper, J. (speaker), Schumacher, G. (speaker) & Bakker, B. (speaker) (2024). Putting the Affect into Affective Polarization: New Insights into Conceptualization and Measurement, German Political Psychology Meeting.
- Kasper, J. (speaker), Schumacher, G. (speaker) & Bakker, B. (speaker) (2024). Establishing the Construct and Predictive Validity of Brief Measures of Affective Polarization, Etmaal van de Communicatiewetenschap 2024, Rotterdam.
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