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The PIM lab is a hub for political behavior research on Polarization, Identity and Misinformation within the IC3JM and within the department of social sciences at UC3M.
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PROJECTS

Featured Projects

FEDCRISIS: federalism in the context of polarization, external threats and populism

Polarization

The objective of this project is to study how a crisis of efficiency, an external shock or a scenario of political polarization condition the functioning...

REACCT Research and Analysis on Climate Change Public Opinion Trends

The topic of climate change has recently captured the attention of scholars from different disciplines, but studies have mainly focused on citizens’ knowledge on and...

POLARCHATS (ERC grant)

Misinformation is a growing concern in the Global South. In many developing countries, political actors make extensive use of social media and discussion apps such...

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NEWS & VIEWS

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Vacancy

OUR PEOPLE

Gema García-Albacete

Pablo Simón

Sílvia Claveria

Sumitra Badrinathan

External collaborators

Simon Chauchard

Direction, UC3M affiliates

Sandra León Alfonso

UC3M affiliates

Patrick Kraft

UC3M affiliates

Rodrigo Fernández Caba

PhD Students, UC3M affiliates

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PUBLICATIONS

Our Publications

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Reducing Falsehoods at the Source: An experiment incentivizing Brazilian political elites to avoid online misinformation

Terrorism, perpetrators and polarization: Evidence from natural experiments

The Ethnic Origins of Affective Polarization: Statistical Evidence From Cross-National Data

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