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Overview

Nicholas A. Valentino is a researcher affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their work spans several disciplines primarily situated in the social sciences, including computer science with a focus on political science and sociology. Valentino's research interests include social and intergroup psychology, electoral systems and political participation, and survey methodology and nonresponse, among other topics.

The main fields of study for Valentino include:

  • Social Sciences
  • Computer Science

Their subfields of study further specify expertise in:

  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Political Science and International Relations
  • Information Systems
  • Gender Studies
  • Artificial Intelligence

Some of the prominent topics addressed in their research are:

  • Social and Intergroup Psychology
  • Electoral Systems and Political Participation
  • Survey Methodology and Nonresponse
  • Gender Politics and Representation
  • Populism, Right-Wing Movements
  • Migration, Refugees, and Integration
  • Data Mining and Machine Learning Applications

Valentino's recent scholarly publications include:

  • The Consequences of Personality Biases in Online Panels for Measuring Public Opinion, 2020, Public Opinion Quarterly
  • Testing Snowden's Hypothesis Does Mere Awareness Drive Opposition to Government Surveillance?, 2020, Public Opinion Quarterly
  • The Origins and Consequences of Racialized Schemas about U.S. Parties, 2022, The Journal of Race Ethnicity and Politics
  • The Electoral Costs and Benefits of Feminism in Contemporary American Politics, 2021, Political Behavior
  • Validating the "Genuine Pipeline" to Limit Social Desirability Bias in Survey Estimates of Voter Turnout, 2024, Public Opinion Quarterly

Valentino collaborates regularly with several frequent co-authors, including:

  • Çiğdem V. Şirin
  • José D. Villalobos
  • Carly Wayne
  • Alex Mintz
  • Kirill Zhirkov

The venues in which Valentino most commonly publishes research include:

  • Public Opinion Quarterly
  • The Journal of Race Ethnicity and Politics
  • Cambridge University Press eBooks
  • Harvard Dataverse
  • Political Behavior

In addition to articles, Valentino has contributed to book publications with Cambridge University Press, including:

  • Seeing Us in Them (2021)
  • Beyond Rationality (2021)

Best Publications

  • What Triggers Public Opposition to Immigration? Anxiety, Group Cues, and Immigration Threat

    Ted Brader;Nicholas A. Valentino;Elizabeth Suhay

  • Cues that Matter: How Political Ads Prime Racial Attitudes During Campaigns

    Nicholas A. Valentino;Vincent L. Hutchings;Ismail K. White

  • Election Night’s Alright for Fighting: The Role of Emotions in Political Participation

    Nicholas A. Valentino;Ted Brader;Eric W. Groenendyk;Krysha Gregorowicz

  • Does Attack Advertising Demobilize the Electorate

    Stephen Ansolabehere;Shanto Iyengar;Adam Simon;Nicholas Valentino

  • Is a Worried Citizen a Good Citizen? Emotions, Political Information Seeking, and Learning via the Internet

    Nicholas A. Valentino;Vincent L. Hutchings;Antoine J. Banks;Anne K. Davis

  • Politics Matters: Political Events as Catalysts for Preadult Socialization

    David O. Sears;Nicholas A. Valentino

  • Crime News and the Priming of Racial Attitudes during Evaluations of the President

    Nicholas A. Valentino

  • THE CENTRALITY OF RACE IN AMERICAN POLITICS

    Vincent L. Hutchings;Nicholas A. Valentino

  • A spiral of cynicism for some: The contingent effects of campaign news frames on participation and confidence in government

    Nicholas A. Valentino;Matthew N. Beckmann;Thomas A. Buhr

  • Old Times There Are Not Forgotten: Race and Partisan Realignment in the Contemporary South

    Nicholas A. Valentino;David O. Sears

  • Efficacy, Emotions and the Habit of Participation

    Nicholas A. Valentino;Krysha Gregorowicz;Eric W. Groenendyk

  • Immigration opposition among U.S. whites: General ethnocentrism or media priming of attitudes about latinos?

    Nicholas A. Valentino;Ted Brader;Ashley E. Jardina

  • Selective Exposure in the Internet Age: The Interaction between Anxiety and Information Utility

    Nicholas A. Valentino;Antoine J. Banks;Vincent L. Hutchings;Anne K. Davis

  • The Changing Norms of Racial Political Rhetoric and the End of Racial Priming

    Nicholas A. Valentino;Fabian G. Neuner;L. Matthew Vandenbroek

  • Where You Live and What You Watch: The Impact of Racial Proximity and Local Television News on Attitudes about Race and Crime

    Franklin D. Gilliam;Nicholas A. Valentino;Matthew N. Beckmann

  • The Impact of Political Advertising on Knowledge, Internet Information Seeking, and Candidate Preference

    Nicholas A. Valentino;Vincent L. Hutchings;Dmitri Williams

  • Mobilizing Sexism: The Interaction of Emotion and Gender Attitudes in the 2016 US Presidential Election

    Nicholas A Valentino;Carly Wayne;Marzia Oceno

  • Emotional Substrates of White Racial Attitudes

    Antoine J. Banks;Nicholas A. Valentino

  • Fear, Anger, and Voting for the Far Right: Evidence From the November 13, 2015 Paris Terror Attacks

    Pavlos Vasilopoulos;George E. Marcus;Nicholas A. Valentino;Martial Foucault

  • Event-Driven Political Communication and the Preadult Socialization of Partisanship

    Nicholas A. Valentino;David O. Sears

  • Economic and Cultural Drivers of Immigrant Support Worldwide

    Nicholas A. Valentino;Stuart N. Soroka;Shanto Iyengar;Toril Aalberg

Frequent Co-Authors

Shanto Iyengar
Shanto Iyengar Stanford University
David O. Sears
David O. Sears University of California, Los Angeles
Stuart Soroka
Stuart Soroka University of California, Los Angeles
Martial Foucault
Martial Foucault Sciences Po
George E. Marcus
George E. Marcus Williams College
Raymond M. Duch
Raymond M. Duch University of Oxford
Toril Aalberg
Toril Aalberg Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Tali Mendelberg
Tali Mendelberg Princeton University
Danny Osborne
Danny Osborne University of Auckland

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