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Overview

Neil Malhotra is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States and conducts research primarily at the intersection of political science, sociology, and communication. Their work spans several fields of study, including Sociology and Political Science, Communication, Political Science and International Relations, Economics and Econometrics, and Demography.

Malhotra's research topics cover Social Media and Politics, Electoral Systems and Political Participation, Misinformation and Its Impacts, Media Influence and Politics, Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection, Political Influence and Corporate Strategies, and Media Studies and Communication.

Recent papers by Malhotra include:

  • Asymmetric ideological segregation in exposure to political news on Facebook, 2023, Science
  • How do social media feed algorithms affect attitudes and behavior in an election campaign?, 2023, Science
  • Like-minded sources on Facebook are prevalent but not polarizing, 2023, Nature
  • Reshares on social media amplify political news but do not detectably affect beliefs or opinions, 2023, Science
  • Developing a Scalable Dynamic Norm Menu-Based Intervention to Reduce Meat Consumption, 2020, Sustainability

Frequent co-authors include Christopher McConnell, Yotam Margalit, Matthew Levendusky, Sandra González-Bailón, and Hunt Allcott.

Malhotra's publications appear frequently in venues such as Harvard Dataverse, Science, UNC Libraries, Nature, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The scientist has also contributed to book publications, including the title Leading With Values, published by Cambridge University Press in 2021.

Best Publications

  • Promoting an open research culture

    B. A. Nosek;G. Alter;G. C. Banks;D. Borsboom

  • The Origins and Consequences of Affective Polarization in the United States

    Shanto Iyengar;Yphtach Lelkes;Matthew Levendusky;Neil Malhotra

  • Publication bias in the social sciences: Unlocking the file drawer

    Annie Franco;Neil Malhotra;Gabor Simonovits

  • Myopic Voters and Natural Disaster Policy

    Andrew Healy;Neil Malhotra

  • Retrospective Voting Reconsidered

    Andrew Healy;Neil Malhotra

  • Attributing Blame: The Public's Response to Hurricane Katrina

    Neil Malhotra;Alexander G. Kuo

  • Irrelevant events affect voters' evaluations of government performance.

    Andrew J. Healy;Neil Malhotra;Cecilia Hyunjung Mo

  • Economic Explanations for Opposition to Immigration: Distinguishing between Prevalence and Conditional Impact

    Neil Malhotra;Yotam Margalit;Cecilia Hyunjung Mo

  • Completion Time and Response Order Effects in Web Surveys

    Neil Malhotra

  • Political Homophily in Social Relationships: Evidence from Online Dating Behavior

    Gregory A. Huber;Neil Malhotra

  • Poverty and Support for Militant Politics: Evidence from Pakistan

    Graeme Blair;C. Christine Fair;Neil Malhotra;Jacob N. Shapiro

  • The Economic Consequences of Partisanship in a Polarized Era

    Christopher McConnell;Yotam Margalit;Neil Malhotra;Matthew Levendusky

  • The Effect of Survey Mode and Sampling on Inferences about Political Attitudes and Behavior: Comparing the 2000 and 2004 ANES to Internet Surveys with Nonprobability Samples

    Neil Malhotra;Jon A. Krosnick

  • Do Statistical Reporting Standards Affect What Is Published? Publication Bias in Two Leading Political Science Journals

    Alan Gerber;Neil Malhotra

  • Does Media Coverage of Partisan Polarization Affect Political Attitudes

    Matthew Levendusky;Neil Malhotra

  • Asymmetric ideological segregation in exposure to political news on Facebook

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  • How do social media feed algorithms affect attitudes and behavior in an election campaign?

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  • Publication Bias in Empirical Sociological Research : Do Arbitrary Significance Levels Distort Published Results?

    Alan S. Gerber;Neil Malhotra

  • Electoral incentives and partisan conflict in congress: Evidence from survey experiments

    Laurel Harbridge;Neil Malhotra

  • Mis)perceptions of Partisan Polarization in the American Public

    Matthew S. Levendusky;Neil Malhotra

  • Explaining Explanations: How Legislators Explain their Policy Positions and How Citizens React

    Christian R. Grose;Neil Malhotra;Robert Parks Van Houweling

  • Public Preferences for Bipartisanship in the Policymaking Process

    Laurel Harbridge;Neil Malhotra;Brian F. Harrison

  • Social Exclusion and Political Identity: The Case of Asian American Partisanship

    Alexander Kuo;Neil Malhotra;Cecilia Hyunjung Mo

  • Are public opinion polls self-fulfilling prophecies?

    David Rothschild;Neil Malhotra

  • Short-Term Communication Effects or Longstanding Dispositions? The Public’s Response to the Financial Crisis of 2008

    Neil Malhotra;Yotam Margalit

  • Childhood Socialization and Political Attitudes: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

    Andrew Healy;Neil Malhotra

Frequent Co-Authors

C. Christine Fair
C. Christine Fair Georgetown University
Jacob N. Shapiro
Jacob N. Shapiro Princeton University
Jon A. Krosnick
Jon A. Krosnick Stanford University
David E. Broockman
David E. Broockman University of California, Berkeley
Gregory A. Huber
Gregory A. Huber Yale University
Alan S. Gerber
Alan S. Gerber Yale University
Sharad Goel
Sharad Goel Harvard University
Luke Keele
Luke Keele University of Pennsylvania
Duncan J. Watts
Duncan J. Watts University of Pennsylvania
Denny Borsboom
Denny Borsboom University of Amsterdam

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