Dr. Ronja Demel - Coping with Affective Polarization

Dr. Ronja Demel

Principal Investigator

Research Stream:
Civil Society Interventions Lab
Individuals

Website:
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0166-6501

Short Vita

I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Humboldt University of Berlin on the topics of (intergroup) empathy, attitudes towards refugees and (measuring) political attitudes. In my dissertation at the University of Göttingen, I investigated, among other things, how political attitudes influence everyday moral judgments.

Key publications

Demel, R., Masch, L., Schieferdecker, D., Schwander, H., Hutter, S., & Specht, J. (2025). Empathy During Crises: Investigating Attitudes, Tolerance, and Ingroup–Outgroup Dynamics in Response to Refugee Movements. Journal of Personality, 0, 1-16 https://doi.org/10.1111/jopy.13012
Demel, R., Pooresmaeili, A., Gagsch, F., Spengler, M., & Schacht, A. (2024). Beyond bidimensional measures: Introducing a culturally tailored measure of political orientation. Political Psychology, 45(3), 517–535. https://doi.org/10.1111/pops.12935
Masch, L., Demel, R., Schieferdecker, D., Schwander, H., Hutter, S., & Specht, J. (2023). Shift in Public Opinion Formations on Defense, Energy, and Migration: The Case of Russia’s War Against Ukraine. International Journal of Public Opinion Research, 35(4), edad038. https://doi.org/10.1093/ijpor/edad038
Demel, R., Grassi, F., Rafiee, Y., Waldmann, M. R., & Schacht, A. (2022). How German and Italian laypeople reason about distributive shortages during COVID-19. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19, 12067. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191912067

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