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Extremism without ideology

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Nikola Sekulovski

Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam

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Nikola Sekulovski is a PhD candidate in the Department of Psychology at the University of Amsterdam, where Sekulovski has been based since 2022 under the Psychologische Methodenleer group. Sekulovski completed a master's degree in Methodology and Statistics for the Behavioural, Biomedical and Social Sciences at Utrecht University in 2022. Research focuses on Bayesian graphical modeling, including prior elicitation, Bayes factor testing, and network psychometrics, with additional work on parameter estimation methods for the Ising model and the development of accessible software tools for Bayesian network analysis in the social sciences.