Marina Lindell is an Academy of Finland Research Fellow 2022-2027. Her project is titled “Re-thinking opinion change: the role of framing, communication dynamics and personality”. The project scrutinises attitudinal and knowledge change in different experimental settings – depending on the framing of issues and group composition, communicative dynamics (speaking/acting/listening) and personality traits. Besides this she is managing a project on societal polarization, chairing the ECPR Standing Group on Democratic Innovations and is an Assistant Editor for the Journal of Deliberative Democracy.
What is your role in this project?
I am the leader of work package two which is focusing on large scale survey experiments in order to test the same stimuli treatments used in the lab experiments. By using survey experiments we will gain further knowledge on emotional reactions and the mediating/moderating role of individual-level variables such as partisan and social identity, personality and attitudes. I have vast knowledge on survey research and is the manager for the Barometer panel used in the project. Hence, my main role is to design survey experiments, analyse data and write articles together with the team.
What do you find interesting about the research of emotions and/or affective polarization?
My Academy of Finland project focus on the role of framing for opinion change. This is closely connected to both emotions and affective polarization since framing of messages can have a large impact on how we react and how opinions are formed. I am also interested in how misinformation and fake news affect opinions and political behavior, including the effect on affective polarization.
What do you do in your spare time?
I have two active teenagers, including a 14 year old playing ice hockey in Vasa Sport and a 17 year old doing synchronised skating. I spend a large time of my spare time in the ice-hockey arena and I enjoy almost every moment of it. I also enjoy spending time at the gym and whenever I find time in between it all I play Candy Crush, watch True Crime series online or read a book.
The research project “EmoAffect” takes on the task of studying how emotional reactions drive affective polarization and focuses on which emotions that are crucial drivers. The project is funded by the Research Council of Finland and carried out at Åbo Akademi University.