Olaf Borghi

Olaf Borghi is a PhD candidate in psychology at Royal Holloway, University of London, where Borghi has been enrolled since 2023, and a researcher affiliated with the Centre for the Politics of Feelings at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. Borghi's research interests span adolescence, emotion regulation, future anxiety, ideology, and political attitudes, with recent work examining the relationships between cognitive control and politically motivated reasoning, young people's future anxiety and political attitudes across the UK and Greece, and the associations between mindfulness, stress perception, and empathy. Prior to commencing doctoral studies at Royal Holloway, Borghi was based at the University of Vienna from 2020 to 2023.