Olaf Borghi

I am an early career researcher and PhD student in the MSCA doctoral network “Interdisciplinary Perspectives of the Politics of Adolescence & Democracy” . In this project I will investigate the relative contributions of cognitive and emotional traits to ideological thinking across the developmental window of adolescence.

I completed a MSc in Psychology with a specialization in social neuroscience, cognitive psychology and research methods at the University of Vienna. In my master thesis, I investigated factors that modulate neural activation during action observation. I also worked as a research assistant in the Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (SCAN) Unit, where I contributed to projects on comparative neuroscience with dogs and humans, and in the Methods Department, where I contributed to statistics lectures and mindfulness research.