Shanto Iyengar:

About

Shanto Iyengar is the William Robertson Coe Professor and a Professor of Political Science and of Communication at Stanford University. He serves as the Director of the Political Communication Laboratory. Iyengar’s areas of expertise include the role of mass media in democratic societies, public opinion, and political psychology. His research has been supported by grants from prominent organizations such as the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the Ford Foundation, the Pew Charitable Trusts, and the Hewlett Foundation. He has received several professional awards, including the Philip Converse Award of the American Political Science Association for the best book in the field of public opinion, the Murray Edelman Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Goldsmith Book Prize from Harvard University.

Research topics

• Political Science
• Sociology
• Law
• Psychology
• Social psychology
• Computer Science
• Social Science
• Gender studies
• Media studies
• Advertising

Selected publications

• Political sectarianism in America

  Science · 2020 · 875 citations

  A poisonous cocktail of othering, aversion, and moralization poses a threat to democracy

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• Asymmetric ideological segregation in exposure to political news on Facebook

  Science · 2023 · 291 citations

  Does Facebook enable ideological segregation in political news consumption? We analyzed exposure to news during the US 2020 election using aggregated data for 208 million US Facebook users. We compared the inventory of all political news that users could have seen in their feeds with the information that they saw (after algorithmic curation) and the information with which they engaged. We show that (i) ideological segregation is high and increases as we shift from potential exposure to actual ex…

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• Partisanship as a Social Identity: Implications for Polarization

  Political Behavior · 2020 · 249 citations

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• Partisan Gaps in Political Information and Information‐Seeking Behavior: Motivated Reasoning or Cheerleading?

  American Journal of Political Science · 2020 · 221 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding

  Abstract Do partisan disagreements over politically relevant facts, and preferences for the information sources from which to obtain them, represent genuine differences of opinion or insincere cheerleading? The answer to this question is crucial for understanding the scope of partisan polarization. We test between these alternatives with experiments that offer incentives for correct survey responses and allow respondents to search for information before answering each question. We find that part…

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• Learning to Dislike Your Opponents: Political Socialization in the Era of Polarization

  American Political Science Review · 2022 · 107 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding

  Early socialization research dating to the 1960s showed that children could have a partisan identity without expressing polarized evaluations of political leaders and institutions. We provide an update to the socialization literature by showing that adolescents today are just as polarized as adults. We compare our findings to a landmark 1980 socialization study and show that distrust in the opposing party has risen sharply among adolescents. We go on to show that the onset of polarization in chi…

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Frequent coauthors

• Erik Peterson

  Rice University

  76 shared

• Kyu S. Hahn

  24 shared

• Tetsuro Kobayashi

  Waseda University

  20 shared

• Stephen Ansolabehere

  Harvard University

  20 shared

• Stuart Soroka

  20 shared

• Christian Collet

  16 shared

• Donald R. Kinder

  University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

  14 shared

• Donald P. Green

  Columbia University

  14 shared

Labs

• Political Communication LaboratoryPI

Awards & honors

• Philip Converse Award of the American Political Science Asso…
• Murray Edelman Lifetime Achievement Award
• Goldsmith Book Prize from Harvard University

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