Matthijs Gillissen
Biographic Data
| ID | 4396620 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthijs Gillissen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthijs |
| FAMILY NAME | Gillissen |
| SIGNATURE | GILLISSEN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | HIVA – KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4378-2156 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Political trust revisited
There remains a lack of clarity about what low political trust precisely entails. Based on long-standing discussions, recent works have sought to verify the existence of distinct political trust attitudes, namely, trust, mistrust, and distrust. While insightful, multiple criticisms have emerged on the contributions to this literature. Notably, despite growing attention, a comprehensive overview of different trust attitudes and their empirical bas…
Social Policy and Political Trust
While some argue that diminishing welfare policies erode political trust, others contend they do not significantly influence support for political institutions. Despite pressures on social spending, a comprehensive examination of the relationship between welfare policies and political trust is lacking. This research analyzes trends in political trust across Europe using Bayesian dynamic latent variable modeling and investigates the impact of with…
Empathic Concern and Perspective-Taking Have Opposite Effects on Affective Polarization
Empathy has been proposed as a solution to alleviate interparty antipathy. Recent findings from the US suggest that one aspect of empathy – empathic concern – increases rather than decreases affective polarization. Perspective-taking, another aspect of empathy, has no effect on affective polarization. In this article, we describe a preregistered replication and extension of these findings in the contrasting political context of the Netherlands, t…
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Empathic Concern and Perspective-Taking Have Opposite Effects on Affective Polarization
Empathy has been proposed as a solution to alleviate interparty antipathy. Recent findings from the US suggest that one aspect of empathy – empathic concern – increases rather than decreases affective polarization. Perspective-taking, another aspect of empathy, has no effect on affective polarization. In this article, we describe a preregistered replication and extension of these findings in the contrasting political context of the Netherlands, t…
Social Policy and Political Trust
While some argue that diminishing welfare policies erode political trust, others contend they do not significantly influence support for political institutions. Despite pressures on social spending, a comprehensive examination of the relationship between welfare policies and political trust is lacking. This research analyzes trends in political trust across Europe using Bayesian dynamic latent variable modeling and investigates the impact of with…
Political trust revisited
There remains a lack of clarity about what low political trust precisely entails. Based on long-standing discussions, recent works have sought to verify the existence of distinct political trust attitudes, namely, trust, mistrust, and distrust. While insightful, multiple criticisms have emerged on the contributions to this literature. Notably, despite growing attention, a comprehensive overview of different trust attitudes and their empirical bas…
Politics (3 works) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Social Capital and Networks (2 works) · Antipathy (1 works) · Cognitive psychology (1 works) · Computer Science (1 works) · Distrust (1 works) · Economics (1 works) · Empathic concern (1 works)