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Overview

Markus Prior is affiliated with Princeton University in the United States. Their recent research spans several topics within decision sciences, social psychology, and health.

Recent publications by Markus Prior include:

  • "People are less myopic about future than past collective outcomes" (2023), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Trend dominance" (2025), published in Journal of Risk and Uncertainty
  • "Replication data for: People are less myopic about future than past collective outcomes" (2023), published in Harvard Dataverse

Markus Prior has collaborated frequently with the following coauthors:

  • Talbot M. Andrews
  • Abdelaziz Alsharawy
  • Justin Curl
  • Kathleen Dolan
  • Jennifer L. Lawless

Their work appears in several publication venues, including:

  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Journal of Risk and Uncertainty
  • Political Analysis
  • Harvard Dataverse
  • American Journal of Political Science

Markus Prior's research primarily involves the following main topics:

  • Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
  • Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
  • Health disparities and outcomes

Their studies also engage with subfields such as:

  • General Decision Sciences
  • Social Psychology
  • Health

Best Publications

  • Post-Broadcast Democracy: How Media Choice Increases Inequality in Political Involvement and Polarizes Elections

    Markus Prior

  • Predisposing Factors and Situational Triggers: Exclusionary Reactions to Immigrant Minorities

    Paul M. Sniderman;Louk Hagendoorn;Markus Prior

  • Post-Broadcast Democracy

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  • News vs. Entertainment: How Increasing Media Choice Widens Gaps in Political Knowledge and Turnout

    Markus Prior

  • Media and Political Polarization

    Markus Prior

  • You’ve Either Got It or You Don’t? The Stability of Political Interest over the Life Cycle

    Markus Prior

  • The Immensely Inflated News Audience: Assessing Bias in Self-Reported News Exposure

    Markus Prior

  • Any Good News in Soft News? The Impact of Soft News Preference on Political Knowledge

    Markus Prior

  • You Cannot be Serious: The Impact of Accuracy Incentives on Partisan Bias in Reports of Economic Perceptions

    Markus Prior;Gaurav Sood;Kabir Khanna

  • Improving Media Effects Research through Better Measurement of News Exposure

    Markus Prior

  • Money, Time, and Political Knowledge: Distinguishing Quick Recall and Political Learning Skills

    Markus Prior;Arthur Lupia

  • The Incumbent in the Living Room: The Rise of Television and the Incumbency Advantage in U.S. House Elections

    Markus Prior

  • Hooked: How Politics Captures People's Interest

    Markus Prior

  • Visual Political Knowledge: A Different Road to Competence?

    Markus Prior

  • The Challenge of Measuring Media Exposure: Reply to Dilliplane, Goldman, and Mutz

    Markus Prior

  • News vs. Entertainment: How Increasing Media Choice Widens Gaps in Political Knowledge and Turnout

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  • Weighted Content Analysis of Political Advertisements

    Markus Prior

  • Who Watches Presidential Debates? Measurement Problems in Campaign Effects Research

    Markus Prior

  • Hooked

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  • Political Knowledge after September 11

    Markus Prior

  • Public Ignorance and Estate Tax Repeal: The Effect of Partisan Differences and Survey Incentives

    Yanna Krupnikov;Adam Seth Levine;Arthur Lupia;Markus Prior

  • “Like They’ve Never, Ever Seen in This Country”? Political Interest and Voter Engagement in 2016

    Markus Prior;Lori D Bougher

  • Using mobilization, media, and motivation to curb political polarization

    Markus Prior;Natalie Jomini Stroud

  • Post-Broadcast Democracy: Divided by Choice: Audience Fragmentation and Political Inequality in the Post-Broadcast Media Environment

    Markus Prior

Frequent Co-Authors

Arthur Lupia
Arthur Lupia University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Paul M. Sniderman
Paul M. Sniderman Stanford University
Yanna Krupnikov
Yanna Krupnikov University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Philip E. Tetlock
Philip E. Tetlock University of Pennsylvania

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