Evelyn Hye Kyung Jeong is a PhD student in the Department of Psychology and Cognitive Sciences at the University of Trento. Her doctoral research explores socio-psychological underpinnings behind laypeople’s understanding of democracy. She holds an Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree in Social and Cultural Psychology (Global-MINDS) from the University of Limerick, Ireland, and ISCTE-IUL, Portugal. Primary research interests revolve around political and cultural psychology with a focus on democratic norms, politicized identities, intergroup relations, socio-cultural norms and values underlying political attitudes.