Alexander Bor

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I am a postdoc at the CEU Democracy Institute’s Research Group on De- and Re-Democratization and a Visiting Professor at CEU Vienna. I received an MA in Political Science at the CEU in 2012, and a PhD in Political Science at Aarhus University in 2018, where I also worked as a postdoc until 2022. My research focuses on how the human mind navigates social and political challenges like political polarization, online political hostility, the COVID-19 pandemic, or selecting and evaluating political leaders. My work integrates insights from political behavior, social and evolutionary psychology, and public health. I employs diverse quantitative analytical tools like surveys, experiments and machine learning. My work has been published in leading journals (e.g. Nature, PNAS, APSR, and Psych Science) and covered by international media outlets (e.g. New York Times, Washington Post, The Atlantic).

I am an R enthusiast fascinated with data vizualization and Bayes. I do my best to promote and live up to the standards of open science. I am a proud father of two, a juvenile juggler, a curious cook, and a sourdough samurai.

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