Stuart N. Soroka Curriculum Vitae February 2020 Michael W. Traugott Collegiate Professor of Communication and Media & Political Science University of Michigan Address: Communication and Media Center for Political Studies (CPS) 5370 North Quad Institute for Social Research, 4200 Bay 105 South State Street University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1285 426 Thompson Street Ann Arbor, MI, 48104-2321 Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.snsoroka.com ——————————————————————————————————————————— Academic Positions July 2014- Professor of Communication and Media; Professor of Political Science (by courtesy); Research Professor (2019-, Faculty Associate, 2014-2019) in the Centre for Political Studies at the Institute for Social Research; University of Michigan. 2002-2014. Assistant Professor (2002), Associate Professor (2007), Professor (2014) and William Dawson Scholar (2007) 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 Quantitative Methods for Research on Mass Media (Michigan, grad); The Biology of Communication (Michigan, grad); Communication & Political Representation (Michigan, 400-level); Media & Democracy (Michigan, 300- level); Evaluating Information and Analyzing Media I (Michigan, 100-level); Feeling Political?: Affect, Emotion, & Personality in Political Communication (Michigan, 400-level); Entertainment & Politics: How Movies and TV Shape our Political Preferences (Michigan, 100-level); Content Analysis in the Social Sciences: Human & Automated Approaches (Vienna, grad); Media & Politics (McGill, 400-level); Public Opinion & Public Policy (Oslo Summer School in Comparative Social Science Studies; grad); Contemporary Politics in Western Europe (McGill, 300-level); Honours Seminar in Canadian Politics (McGill, 500-level); Modern Political Analysis (McGill, grad); Seminar on Social Statistics (McGill, grad); Advanced Empirical Methods (McGill, grad); Applied Regression for Political Scientists (Oxford, grad); Introduction to Canadian Politics (UBC, 200-level). 1 Publications Books 1. [Under contract] Stuart Soroka and Christopher Wlezien. N.d. Information and Democracy, Cambridge University Press. 2. [In press] 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. 3. Stuart Soroka. 2014. Negativity in Democratic Politics: Causes and Consequences. Cambridge Studies in Public Opinion and Political Psychology, Cambridge University Press. 4. 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. 5. Stuart Soroka and Christopher Wlezien. 2010. Degrees of Democracy: Politics, Public Opinion and Policy, with Christopher Wlezien, Cambridge University Press. 6. Stuart Soroka. 2002. Agenda-Setting Dynamics in Canada. University of British Columbia Press. Articles (Peer-reviewed) 1. [forthcoming] Patrick Fournier, Stuart Soroka and Lilach Nir. N.d. “Negativity Biases and Political Ideology: A Comparative Test Across 17 Countries,” American Political Science Review. 2. [forthcoming] Patrick Kraft, Yanna Krupnikov, Kerri Milita, John Ryan and Stuart Soroka. N.d. “Social Media and the Changing Information Environment: Sentiment Differences in Read versus Re-Circulated News Content,” Public Opinion Quarterly. 3. [early access/online] Dan Hiaeshutter-Rice, Stuart Soroka and Christopher Wlezien, N.d. “Freedom of the Press and Public Responsiveness,” Perspectives on Politics. 4. [early access/online] Johanna Dunaway and Stuart Soroka. N.d. “Smartphone-size screens constrain cognitive access to video news stories,” Information, Communication and Society. 5. [early access/online] Christopher Wlezien and Stuart Soroka. N.d. “Trends in Public Support for Welfare Spending: How the Economy Matters,” British Journal of Political Science. 6. Sedona Chinn, Sol Hart and Stuart Soroka. 2020. “Politicization and Polarization in Climate Change News Content, 1985-2017,” Science Communication 42(1): 112-129. 7. 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. 8. Christopher Wlezien and Stuart Soroka. 2019. “Mass Media and Electoral Preferences during the 2016 Presidential Election,” Political Behavior 41(4): 945-970. 9. Jeroen Joly, Stuart Soroka and Peter Loewen. 2019. “Nice Guys Finish Last: Personality and Political Success,” Acta Politica 54(4): 667-683. 10. 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. 11. 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. 12. 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. 13. 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. 2 14. 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. 15. 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. 16. 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. 17. 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. 18. P.J. Lamberson and Stuart Soroka. 2018. “A Model of Attentiveness to Outlying News,” Journal of Communication 68(5): 942-964. 19. 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. 20. 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. 21. 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. 22. 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. 23. Anthony Kevins and Stuart Soroka. 2018. “Growing Apart? Partisan Sorting in Canada, 1992-2015,” Canadian Journal of Political Science 51(1): 103-133. 24. Stuart Soroka, Matthew Wright, Richard Johnston, Jack Citrin, Keith Banting and Will Kymlicka, 2017. “Ethnoreligious Identity, Immigration and Redistribution,” with the Journal of Experimental Political Science 4(3): 173-182. 25. Christopher Wlezien, Stuart Soroka, and Dominik Stecula. 2017. “A Cross-National Analysis of the Causes and Consequences of Economic News,” Social Science Quarterly 98(3): 1010-1025. 26. Eran Amsalem, Tamir Sheafer, Stefaan Walgrave and Peter John Loewen and Stuart Soroka. 2017. “Media Motivation and Elite Rhetoric in Comparative Perspective,” Political Communication 34(3): 385-403. 27. Allison Harell, Stuart Soroka and Shanto Iyengar. 2017. “Locus of Control and Anti-Immigrant Sentiment in Canada, the US and the UK,” Political Psychology 38(2): 245-260. 28. J. Alexander Branham, Stuart Soroka and Christopher Wlezien. 2017. “When Do the Rich Win?,” Political Studies Quarterly 132(1): 43-62. 29. Matthew Wright, Richard Johnston, Jack Citrin and Stuart Soroka. 2017. “Multiculturalism and Muslim Accommodation: Policy and Predisposition Across Three Political Contexts,” Comparative Political Studies 50(1): 102-132. 30. Allison Harell, Stuart Soroka and Shanto Iyengar. 2016. “Race, Prejudice and Attitudes toward Redistribution: A Comparative Experimental Approach,” European Journal of Political Research 55(4): 723–744. 31. Stuart Soroka, Peter Loewen, Daniel Rubenson, and Patrick Fournier. 2016. “The Impact of News Photos on