Stuart N. Soroka Curriculum Vitae July 2021 Professor, Department of Communication, University of California, Los Angeles Address: UCLA Department of Communication 2225 Rolfe Hall, Box 951538 345 Portola Plaza Los Angeles, CA 90095-1538 Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.snsoroka.com ——————————————————————————————————————————— Academic Positions current Professor, Department of Communication, University of California, Los Angeles Adjunct Research Professor, Centre for Political Studies, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan July 2014-June 2021. Professor, Department of Communication and Media; Professor, Department of Political Science (by courtesy); Research Professor (2019-, Faculty Associate, 2014-2019), Centre for Political Studies, Institute for Social Research; University of Michigan. July 2002-June 2014. Assistant Professor (2002-7), Associate Professor (2007-14), Professor (2014) and William Dawson Scholar (2007-14) in the Department of Political Science at McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada. Education 1996-2000. Doctor of Philosophy, Political Science, University of British Columbia, Vancouver BC, Canada. 1994-1995. Master of Arts, Political Science, Carleton University, Ottawa ON, Canada. 1989-1992. Bachelor of Arts (Honours), Political Science, Queen’s University, Kingston ON, Canada. Research Interests Political Communication; Public Opinion; Public Policy; Political Psychology; Social Welfare and Healthcare Policy; Immigration and Diversity; Quantitative Research Methods. Courses Taught Undergraduate: Feeling Political? Affect, Emotion, & Personality in Political Communication (UCLA & Michigan); Entertainment & Politics (UCLA & Michigan); Communication & Political Representation (Michigan); Media & Democracy (Michigan); Evaluating Information and Analyzing Media I (Michigan); Media & Politics (McGill); Contemporary Politics in Western Europe (McGill); Honours Seminar in Canadian Politics (McGill); Introduction to Canadian Politics (UBC). Graduate: Quantitative Methods for Research on Mass Media (Michigan); The Biology of Communication (Michigan); Content Analysis in the Social Sciences: Human & Automated Approaches (Vienna); Public Opinion & Public Policy (Oslo Summer School in Comparative Social Science Studies); Modern Political Analysis (McGill); Seminar on Social Statistics (McGill); Advanced Empirical Methods (McGill); Applied Regression for Political Scientists (Oxford). 1 Publications Books 1. [In production, forthcoming 2022] Stuart Soroka and Christopher Wlezien. N.d. Information and Democracy, Cambridge University Press. 2. Stuart Soroka and Yanna Krupnikov. 2021. The Increasing Viability of Positive News. Cambridge Elements in Politics and Communication, Cambridge University Press. 3. Leticia Bode, Ceren Budak, Jonathan M. Ladd, Frank Newport, Josh Pasek, Lisa O. Singh, Stuart Soroka and Michael W. Traugott. 2020. Words that Matter: How the News and Social Media Shaped the 2016 Presidential Campaign, Brookings. 4. Stuart Soroka. 2014. Negativity in Democratic Politics: Causes and Consequences. Cambridge Studies in Public Opinion and Political Psychology, Cambridge University Press. 5. Richard Nadeau, Éric Bélanger, Stuart Soroka, François Pétry and Antonia Maioni. 2014. Health Care Policy and Opinion in the United States and Canada, with, Routledge. 6. Stuart Soroka and Christopher Wlezien. 2010. Degrees of Democracy: Politics, Public Opinion and Policy, with Christopher Wlezien, Cambridge University Press. 7. Stuart Soroka. 2002. Agenda-Setting Dynamics in Canada. University of British Columbia Press. Articles (Peer-reviewed) 1. [forthcoming] Gavin Ploger, Johanna Dunaway, Patrick Fournier and Stuart Soroka. N.d. “The Psychophysiological Correlates of Cognitive Dissonance,” Politics and the Life Sciences. 2. [forthcoming] Dan Hiaeshutter-Rice, Fabian Neuner and Stuart Soroka. N.d. “Cued by Culture: Political Imagery and Partisan Evaluations,” Political Behavior. 3. [early access/online] Patrick Fournier, Michael Bang Petersen and Stuart Soroka. N.d. “The Political Phenotype of the Disgust Sensitive: Correlates of a New Abbreviated Measure of Disgust Sensitivity,” Electoral Studies. 4. [early access/online] Guadalupe Madrigal and Stuart Soroka. N.d. “Migrants, Caravans, and the Impact of News Photos on Immigration Attitudes,” International Journal of Press/Politics. 5. [early access/online] Stuart Soroka, Lauren Guggenheim and Dominic Valentino. N.d. “Valence-Based Biases in News Selection,” Journal of Media Psychology. 6. Dan Hiaeshutter-Rice, Stuart Soroka and Christopher Wlezien. 2021. “Freedom of the Press and Public Responsiveness,” Perspectives on Politics 19(2): 479-491. 7. Lindsay Dun, Stuart Soroka and Christopher Wlezien. 2021. “Dictionaries, Supervised Learning, and Media Coverage of Public Policy,” Political Communication 38 (1-2): 140-158. 8. Christopher Wlezien and Stuart Soroka. 2021. “Trends in Public Support for Welfare Spending: How the Economy Matters,” British Journal of Political Science 51(1): 163-180. 9. Johanna Dunaway and Stuart Soroka. 2021. “Smartphone-size screens constrain cognitive access to video news stories,” Information, Communication and Society 24(1): 69-84. 10. Patrick Kraft, Yanna Krupnikov, Kerri Milita, John Ryan and Stuart Soroka. 2020. “Social Media and the Changing Information Environment: Sentiment Differences in Read versus Re-Circulated News Content,” Public Opinion Quarterly 84(S1): 195-215. 11. Keith Banting and Stuart Soroka. 2020. “A Distinctive Culture? The Sources of Public Support for Immigration in Canada, 1980–2017,” Canadian Journal of Political Science 53(4): 821-838. 12. Sol Hart, Sedona Chinn and Stuart Soroka. 2020. “Politicization and Polarization in COVID-19 News Coverage,” Science Communication 42(5): 679-697. 13. Patrick Fournier, Stuart Soroka and Lilach Nir. 2020. “Negativity Biases and Political Ideology: A Comparative Test Across 17 Countries,” American Political Science Review 114 (3): 775-791 2 14. Sedona Chinn, Sol Hart and Stuart Soroka. 2020. “Politicization and Polarization in Climate Change News Content, 1985-2017,” Science Communication 42(1): 112-129. 15. Sarah Bachleda, Fabian Neuner, Stuart Soroka, Lauren Guggenheim, Patrick Fournier, and Elin Naurin. 2020. “Individual-Level Differences in Negativity Biases in News Selection,” Personality and Individual Differences 155: 109675. 16. Christopher Wlezien and Stuart Soroka. 2019. “Mass Media and Electoral Preferences during the 2016 Presidential Election,” Political Behavior 41(4): 945-970. 17. Jeroen Joly, Stuart Soroka and Peter Loewen. 2019. “Nice Guys Finish Last: Personality and Political Success,” Acta Politica 54(4): 667-683. 18. Stuart Soroka, Patrick Fournier and Lilach Nir. 2019. “Cross-national evidence of a negativity bias in psychophysiological reactions to news,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 116(38): 18888-18892. 19. Elin Naurin, Stuart Soroka and Niels Markwat. 2019. “Asymmetric Accountability: An Experimental Investigation of Biases in Evaluations of Governments’ Election Pledges,” Comparative Political Studies 52(13- 14): 2207-2234. 20. Fabian Neuner, Stuart Soroka and Christopher Wlezien. 2019. “Mass Media as a Source of Public Responsiveness,” International Journal of Press/Politics 24(3): 269-292. 21. Stuart Soroka, Patrick Fournier, Lilach Nir and John Hibbing. 2019. “Psychophysiology in the Study of Political Communication: An Expository Study of Individual-Level Variation in Negativity Biases,” Political Communication. 26(2) 288-302. 22. Nicholas Valentino, Stuart Soroka, Shanto Iyengar et al., 2019. “Economic and Cultural Drivers of Immigrant Support Worldwide,” currently online in the British Journal of Political Science 49(4): 1201-1226. 23. Sven-Oliver Proksch, Will Lowe, Jens Wäckerle and Stuart Soroka. 2019. “Multilingual Sentiment Analysis: A New Approach to Measuring Conflict in Legislative Speeches,” Legislative Studies Quarterly 49: 97-131. 24. Tobias Konitzer, Shanto Iyengar, Nicholas Valentino, Stuart Soroka and Ray Duch. 2019. “Ethnocentrism versus Group Specific Stereotyping in Immigration Opinion: Cross-National Evidence on the Distinctiveness of Immigrant Groups,” currently online in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 47(5): 1051-1074. 25. Stuart Soroka and Christopher Wlezien. 2019. “Tracking the Coverage of Public Policy in Mass Media,” currently online in the Policy Studies Journal 47(2): 471-491. 26. P.J. Lamberson and Stuart Soroka. 2018. “A Model of Attentiveness to Outlying News,” Journal of Communication 68(5): 942-964. 27. Stuart Soroka, Mark Daku, Dan Hiaeshutter-Rice, Lauren Guggenheim, and Josh Pasek. 2018. “Negativity and Positivity Biases in Economic News: Traditional vs. Social Media,” Communication Research 45(7): 1078- 1098. 28. Kevin Arceneaux, Johanna Dunaway and Stuart Soroka. 2018. “Elites are People Too: The Effects of Threat Sensitivity on Policymaker’s Spending Priorities,” PLOS ONE 13(4): e0193781. 29. Lior Sheffer, Peter John Loewen, Stuart Soroka, Stefaan Walgrave and Tamir Shaefer. 2018. “Nonrepresentative Representatives: An Experimental Study of the Decision Making of Elected Politicians,” American Political Science Review 112(2): 302-321. 30. Anja Neundorf and Stuart Soroka. 2018. “The Origins of Redistributive Policy Preferences: Political Socialization with and without a Welfare State,” West European Politics 41(2): 400-427. 31. Anthony Kevins and Stuart Soroka. 2018. “Growing Apart? Partisan Sorting in Canada, 1992-2015,” Canadian Journal of