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Dr. R. (Rebekka) Kesberg

Faculteit der Maatschappij- en Gedragswetenschappen
Programmagroep: Challenges to Democratic Representation
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  • Nieuwe Achtergracht 166
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  • Postbus 15578
    1001 NB Amsterdam
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  • Profile

    Rebekka Kesberg is a Research Fellow at the Department of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam. She is affiliated with AISSR, the Program Group Challenges to Democratic Representation. She is working with Liza Mügge in the Horizon Europe project PUSH*BACK*LASH - Antigender backlash and democratic pushback. After gaining her PhD at Ulm University (Germany), she worked as a research fellow at the University of Sussex (United Kingdom) in a project about polarization in European democracies.  
     
    In her research, Rebekka Kesberg focuses on:
    1.    Gender-based violence in online networks.
    2.    Morality, democratic values and political violance.
    3.    Political representation.  

    Expertise and research fields

    • Polarisation
    • Violence
    • Social Media
    • Morality
    • Democracy
    • Threats

    Relevant links

    Research project PushBackLash

  • Research

    Research methods

    • Experimental research designs
    • Survey
    • Experience Sampling

    Current research projects

    • Gender-based violence on Social Media: Strategies of anti-feminist movements on Twitter and countre-strategies
    • Representation of privatly educated individuals in UK politics
    • Association between democratic values and moral decision making
       
  • Publicaties

    2024

    • García-Sánchez, E., Turner-Zwinkels, F., Kesberg, R., Marot, M., Rodríguez-Bailón, R., Willis, G. B., & Kuppens, T. (2024). Economic Threats, Political and National Identification Predict Affective Polarization: Longitudinal Evidence From Spain. International Review of Social Psychology, 37(1), 1-17. Article 838. https://doi.org/10.5334/irsp.838 [details]
    • Kesberg, R., Brandt, M. J., Easterbrook, M. J., Spruyt, B., & Turner‐Zwinkels, F. (2024). Finding (dis-)advantaged system justifiers: A bottom-up approach to explore system justification theory. European Journal of Social Psychology, 54(1), 81-96. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2989 [details]
    • Sassenrath, C., Keller, J., Stöckle, D., Kesberg, R., Nielsen, Y. A., & Pfattheicher, S. (2024). I Like It Because It Hurts You: On the Association of Everyday Sadism, Sadistic Pleasure, and Victim Blaming. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 126(1), 105-127. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000464

    2023

    • Caluwaerts, D., Bernaerts, K., Kesberg, R., Smets, L., & Spruyt, B. (2023). Deliberation and polarization: a multi-disciplinary review. Frontiers in Political Science, 5, Article 1127372. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpos.2023.1127372
    • Turner-Zwinkels, F. M., van Noord, J., Kesberg, R., García-Sánchez, E., Brandt, M. J., Kuppens, T., Easterbrook, M. J., Smets, L., Gorska, P., Marchlewska, M., & Turner-Zwinkels, T. (2023). Affective Polarization and Political Belief Systems: The Role of Political Identity and the Content and Structure of Political Beliefs. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672231183935

    2022

    • Barthelmäs, M., Kesberg, R., Hermann, A., & Keller, J. (2022). Five reasons to cry—FRC: a taxonomy for common antecedents of emotional crying. Motivation and Emotion, 46(3), 404-427. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11031-022-09938-1
    • Nockur, L., Kesberg, R., Pfattheicher, S., & Keller, J. (2022). Why Do We Punish? on Retribution, Deterrence, and the Moderating Role of Punishment System. Zeitschrift fur Psychologie / Journal of Psychology, 230(2), 104-113. https://doi.org/10.1027/2151-2604/a000457
    • Piven, S. D., Fischer, R., Shaver, J. H., Mogan, R., Karl, J. A., Kesberg, R., Richardson, A., Singh, P., Tewari, S., & Bulbulia, J. (2022). Kiwi Diwali: a longitudinal investigation of perceived social connection following a civic religious ritual. Religion, Brain and Behavior, 12(3), 235-253. https://doi.org/10.1080/2153599X.2021.2006288

    2021

    • Kesberg, R., & Keller, J. (2021). Donating to the ‘right’ cause: Compatibility of personal values and mission statements of philanthropic organizations fosters prosocial behavior. Personality and Individual Differences, 168, Article 110313. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2020.110313
    • Kesberg, R., & Keller, J. (2021). Personal values as motivational basis of psychological essentialism: An exploration of the value profile underlying essentialist beliefs. Personality and Individual Differences, 171, Article 110458. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2020.110458

    2020

    • Singh, P., Tewari, S., Kesberg, R., Karl, J. A., Bulbulia, J., & Fischer, R. (2020). Time investments in rituals are associated with social bonding, affect and subjective health: A longitudinal study of Diwali in two Indian communities: Diwali Time investment & Social Bonding. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 375(1805), Article 20190430. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0430

    2019

    • Kesberg, R., & Pfattheicher, S. (2019). Democracy matters: a psychological perspective on the beneficial impact of democratic punishment systems in social dilemmas. Palgrave Communications, 5(1), Article 44. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-019-0249-2

    2018

    • Flatau, L., Reitt, M., Duttge, G., Lenk, C., Zoll, B., Poser, W., Weber, A., Heilbronner, U., Rietschel, M., Strohmaier, J., Kesberg, R., Nagel, J., & Schulze, T. G. (2018). Genomic information and a person’s right not to know: A closer look at variations in hypothetical informational preferences in a German sample. PLoS ONE, 13(6), Article e0198249. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0198249
    • Kesberg, R., & Keller, J. (2018). The relation between human values and perceived situation characteristics in everyday life. Frontiers in Psychology, 9(SEP), Article 1676. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01676
    • Pfattheicher, S., Böhm, R., & Kesberg, R. (2018). The Advantage of Democratic Peer Punishment in Sustaining Cooperation within Groups. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 31(4), 562-571. https://doi.org/10.1002/bdm.2050

    2017

    Prijs / subsidie

    • Kesberg, R. (2023). Valuing democracy: The role of democracy as a superordinate identity in the justification of political violence.
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