Bio

I currently work as a researcher in the EU Horizon project PLEDGE at IPU Berlin, which explores the role of emotional mechanisms in grievance politics. Additionally, I am a PhD candidate for Sociology at Freie Universität Berlin. With a strong theoretical grounding in Sociology of Emotions, my PhD project is a broad inquiry into political emotions, investigating the relationship between emotions and political mobilization, particularly in the context of right-wing populism, conspiracy theories, and civic engagement. Further research topics and interests of mine include emotions and social inequalities, as well as media and misinformation.

Publications

Journal articles

Wunderlich, P., Soares, I. G., & Scheve, C. von. (2025). Emotional stratification in context: Sources of anger and anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic. Emotions and Society, 1(aop), 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1332/26316897Y2025D000000078

Wunderlich, P. (2025). Feeling the Conspiracy—Theorising the Transformation and Collectivisation of Emotions Through Conspiracy Theories. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 55(2). https://doi.org/10.1111/jtsb.70001

Wunderlich, P., Nguyen, C., & von Scheve, C. (2022). Angry populists or concerned citizens? How linguistic emotion ascriptions shape affective, cognitive, and behavioural responses to political outgroups. Cognition and Emotion, 0(0), 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2022.2152430

Book Chapters

Sullivan, G. B., Rudolph, J. V., & Wunderlich, P. (forthcoming). Collective Hubris, Triumphalism, and Pyrrhic Victories: Exploring the Darker Side of Collective Pride in Political Struggles and Conflicts. In L. Osler & T. Szanto, For, Against, Together: Antagonistic Political Emotions (pp. 283–302). Cambridge University Press.

Teaching

Seminars

M.A. Sociology @Freie Universität Berlin:

Graduate Course: “Emotions and Social Stratification”
(Summer 2023)
Graduate Course: “Political Emotions”
(Winter 2022/23)
Advanced Seminar: “Sociology of Conspiracy Theories”
(Summer 2022, Winter 2022/23, Summer 2023)
Advanced Seminar: “Solidarity, Conflict and Emotions”
(Winter 2021/22, Winter 2020/21)
Graduate Course: “Introduction to data analysis using STATA”
(Winter 2019/20 & Summer 2020)
Advanced Seminar: “Emotion and social conflict”
(Summer 2019 & Winter 2019/20)
Graduate Course: “Regression analysis with R”
(Summer 2019)

Film

One In A Million (writer & sound, documentary, 2022) - IMDB, Instagram
Königin von Niendorf / Queen of Niendorf (writer, feature, 2016) - IMDB