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Citations
50634
World Ranking
59
National Ranking
35

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Political Science in United States Leader Award
  • 2015 - Helen Dinerman Prize, World Association of Public Opinion Research
  • 2014 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Shanto Iyengar is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the intersection of social sciences with a strong emphasis on sociology, political science, and communication. Iyengar's scholarly contributions extend across several subfields including Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations, Communication, Gender Studies, and Strategy and Management.

Their work is concentrated on key topics such as Social Media and Politics, Electoral Systems and Political Participation, Media Influence and Politics, Social and Intergroup Psychology, Populism and Right-Wing Movements, Misinformation and Its Impacts, and Survey Methodology and Nonresponse.

Recent publications authored or co-authored by Iyengar demonstrate engagement with contemporary political issues and social dynamics. These include:

  • Political sectarianism in America (2020), published in Science
  • Asymmetric ideological segregation in exposure to political news on Facebook (2023), published in Science
  • Partisanship as a Social Identity: Implications for Polarization (2020), published in Political Behavior
  • Partisan Gaps in Political Information and Information-Seeking Behavior: Motivated Reasoning or Cheerleading? (2020), published in American Journal of Political Science
  • Learning to Dislike Your Opponents: Political Socialization in the Era of Polarization (2022), published in American Political Science Review

Iyengar has collaborated extensively with several scholars, the most frequent being Erik Peterson, with whom they have co-authored numerous works. Other recurrent co-authors include Annie Franco, Sean Westwood, Lauren D. Davenport, and Matthew Tyler.

Their research has been published in prominent academic venues such as Harvard Dataverse, Science, American Journal of Political Science, American Political Science Review, and The Journal of Politics. Harvard Dataverse represents the largest number of their publications.

Among their recognitions, Shanto Iyengar received the Helen Dinerman Prize from the World Association of Public Opinion Research in 2015. In 2014, they were named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Best Publications

  • News that matters : television and American opinion

    Shanto Iyengar;Donald R. Kinder

  • Is anyone responsible? How television frames political issues.

    Shanto Iyengar

  • Affect, Not Ideology A Social Identity Perspective on Polarization

    Shanto Iyengar;Gaurav Sood;Yphtach Lelkes

  • Red Media, Blue Media: Evidence of Ideological Selectivity in Media Use

    Shanto Iyengar;Kyu S Hahn;Kyu S Hahn

  • Fear and Loathing across Party Lines: New Evidence on Group Polarization

    Shanto Iyengar;Sean J. Westwood

  • A New Era of Minimal Effects? The Changing Foundations of Political Communication

    W. Lance Bennett;Shanto Iyengar

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

    Shanto Iyengar;Yphtach Lelkes;Matthew Levendusky;Neil Malhotra

  • News Coverage of the Gulf Crisis and Public Opinion A Study of Agenda-Setting, Priming, and Framing

    Shanto Iyengar;Adam Simon

  • Prime Suspects: The Influence of Local Television News on the Viewing Public

    Franklin D. Gilliam;Shanto Iyengar

  • Experimental Demonstrations of the “Not-So-Minimal” Consequences of Television News Programs

    Shanto Iyengar;Mark D. Peters;Donald R. Kinder

  • Framing responsibility for political issues: The case of poverty

    Shanto Iyengar

  • Television News, Real-World Cues, and Changes in the Public Agenda

    Roy L. Behr;Shanto Iyengar

  • Going negative : how political advertisements shrink and polarize the electorate

    Stephen Ansolabehere;Shanto Iyengar

  • The End of Framing as we Know it … and the Future of Media Effects

    Michael A. Cacciatore;Dietram A. Scheufele;Shanto Iyengar

  • Media System, Public Knowledge and Democracy A Comparative Study

    James Curran;Shanto Iyengar;Anker Brink Lund;Inka Salovaara-Moring

  • Political sectarianism in America

    Eli J. Finkel;Christopher A. Bail;Mina Cikara;Peter H. Ditto

  • Does Attack Advertising Demobilize the Electorate

    Stephen Ansolabehere;Shanto Iyengar;Adam Simon;Nicholas Valentino

  • New Perspectives and Evidence on Political Communication and Campaign Effects

    Shanto Iyengar;Adam F. Simon

  • RIDING THE WAVE AND CLAIMING OWNERSHIP OVER ISSUES: THE JOINT EFFECTS OF ADVERTISING AND NEWS COVERAGE IN CAMPAIGNS

    Stephen Ansolabehere;Shanto Iyengar

  • Television News and Citizens' Explanations of National Affairs

    Shanto Iyengar

  • Framing Responsibility for Political Issues

    Shanto Iyengar

  • The Media Game: American Politics in the Television Age

    Stephen Ansolabehere;Roy L. Behr;Shanto Iyengar

Frequent Co-Authors

Stuart Soroka
Stuart Soroka University of California, Los Angeles
Stephen Ansolabehere
Stephen Ansolabehere Harvard University
James Curran
James Curran University of Sydney
Toril Aalberg
Toril Aalberg Norwegian University of Science and Technology
David Rowe
David Rowe Western Sydney University
Donald R. Kinder
Donald R. Kinder University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Nicholas A. Valentino
Nicholas A. Valentino University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Jeremy N. Bailenson
Jeremy N. Bailenson Stanford University
Raymond M. Duch
Raymond M. Duch University of Oxford
Nick Yee
Nick Yee Palo Alto Research Center

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