Biography
Dr. Maaike Homan is a postdoctoral researcher in the Organisational Behaviour Group, chaired by Prof Naomi Ellemers. Her research focuses on the role of emotions in society and politics. More specifically, she examines the interplay between individuals’ physiological changes in their body and their subjective feelings and attitudes in response to societal challenges, political issues, and politicians. In her current postdoc project, she specifically investigate how challenges in society such as immigration, the climate crisis, and gender equality, can elicit physiological stress responses in individuals. Furthermore, she examines how these physiological responses affect how we form our opinions about these challenges. She researches this by using a variety of physiological measurements both in the lab and in the field.
During her PhD at the Hot Politics Lab at the University of Amsterdam, she focused on the role of emotional (non-verbal) communication of politicians and how voters respond to this, during survey and lab experiments, using physiological (fEMG, skin conductance, eye-tracking) and neuroscientific (EEG) measurements.
