WELCOME.

I am a postdoctoral research fellow for the Centre for the Politics of Feelings, Royal Holloway at the School of Advanced Study, University of London (Senate House) and a project manager at the Body Politics Lab.

I received my PhD in Political Science in 2025 from Western University.

I am also a multi-media visual artist.

My research within the Centre for the Politics of Feelings and the Body Politics Lab alongside other collaborators abroad is guided by an interdisciplinary appreciation of how embodied and physiological human experiences intersect with political phenomena.

I primarily focus on intergroup dynamics leveraging affective and social psychological approaches to analyze various forms of quantitative and qualitative data, including text as data (e.g., transcribed face-to-face conversations) and physiological data (e.g., electrodermal activity).

ABOUT MY WORK.

Mehravar, Jesse, Ruben Andre Teixeira Azevedo, Amanda Friesen, and Benjamin Ruisch. “Are Ideological Differences a Consequence of Experimental Context? Testing Whether Left Right Differences in Threat Sensitivity are Caused by Perceptions of Researcher Liberalism.” (Registered Report accepted in principle at Politics and the Life Sciences).

Mehravar, Jesse, Christopher Alcantara, and Jason Roy. 2024. "Does Simulating Financial Equality Reduce the Political Donations Gender Gap?" Political Studies Review 22 (3): 657-666.

PUBLISHED & ACCEPTED PAPERS.

CENTRE FOR THE POLITICS OF FEELINGS.

CURRENT POSITION: CENTRE FOR THE POLITICS OF FEELINGS

Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre for the Politics of Feelings | PI Prof. Manos Tsakiris

BODY POLITICS LAB.

COLLABORATION: BODY POLITICS LAB

Project Director at the Body Politics Lab | PI Amanda Friesen, PhD