Shaped by Emotions: Love and Hate driving People and their Politics

• Florence School of Transnational Governance

In this panel, we will explore the role of emotions as driving forces in our personal and political decisions. How do our emotions shape our individual decision making, our social attitudes and to what extent? Is it possible to re-shape them or even escape them?

With Professor Claudio Radaelli and Research Fellow Jonathan Kamkhaji, we will learn about moral emotions in politics (MORES) and how it generates novel data on the type of moral emotions triggered by political actions, and their role in informing moralized political identities. 

With Noga Arikha, Research Fellow for the Horizon project Scaling Democratic Innovations (SCALEDEM), we will look at the confluence of individual psyche and political feelings, and how such feelings enable or disable democratic action. 

Policy Leader Fellow Ela Serpil Evliyaoglu will go on a deep dive to try and answer questions such as what happens in our mind and body when we love someone? How do we recover from heartbreak? Whether hate is an emotion or not? And how we can teach ourselves to love or hate on an individual and political level? 

Panellists:

• Ela Serpil Evliyaoglu, Policy Leader Fellow, STG
• Claudio Radaelli, Full-time Professor, STG
• Jonathan Kamkhaji , Research Fellow, STG
• Noga Arikha, Research Fellow, STG