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- Publications
- Influence
Is anyone responsible? How television frames political issues.
- S. Iyengar
- Political Science
- 1991
A disturbingly cautionary tale, "Is Anyone Responsible?" anchors with powerful evidence suspicions about the way in which television has impoverished political discourse in the United States and at… Expand
News That Matters: Television and American Opinion
- S. Iyengar, D. Kinder
- Political Science
- 1987
Almost twenty-five years ago, Shanto Iyengar and Donald R. Kinder first documented a series of sophisticated and innovative experiments that unobtrusively altered the order and emphasis of news… Expand
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A New Era of Minimal Effects? The Changing Foundations of Political Communication
- W. Bennett, S. Iyengar
- Sociology
- 1 December 2008
The great thinkers who influenced the contemporary field of political communication were preoccupied with understanding the political, social, psychological, and economic transformations in modern… Expand
Affect, Not Ideology A Social Identity Perspective on Polarization
- S. Iyengar, G. Sood, Yphtach Lelkes
- Sociology
- 21 September 2012
The current debate over the extent of polarization in the American mass public focuses on the extent to which partisans’ policy preferences have moved. Whereas "maximalists" claim that partisans’… Expand
Going Negative: How Political Advertisements Shrink and Polarize the Electorate
- S. Ansolabehere, S. Iyengar
- Political Science
- 1995
Drawing on both laboratory experiments and the real world of America's presidential, gubernatorial, and congressional races, the authors show that negative advertising drives down voter turnout - in… Expand
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Framing responsibility for political issues: The case of poverty
- S. Iyengar
- Political Science
- 1 March 1990
How people think about poverty is shown to be dependent on how the issue is framed. When news media presentations frame poverty as a general outcome, responsibility for poverty is assigned to… Expand
Prime Suspects: The Influence of Local Television News on the Viewing Public
- F. D. Gilliam, S. Iyengar
- Political Science
- 1 July 2000
Local television news is the public's primary source of public affairs information. News stories about crime dominate local news programming because they meet the demand for 'action news." The… Expand
Fear and Loathing across Party Lines: New Evidence on Group Polarization
- S. Iyengar, Sean J. Westwood
- Political Science
- 1 July 2015
When defined in terms of social identity and affect toward copartisans and opposing partisans, the polarization of the American electorate has dramatically increased. We document the scope and… Expand
Does Attack Advertising Demobilize the Electorate
- S. Ansolabehere, S. Iyengar, A. Simon, Nicholas A. Valentino
- Political Science
- 1 December 1994
We address the effects of negative campaign advertising on turnout. Using a unique experimental design in which advertising tone is manipulated within the identical audiovisual context, we find that… Expand
News Coverage of the Gulf Crisis and Public Opinion
- S. Iyengar, Adam Simon
- Psychology
- 1 June 1993
This article documents three types of media effects that operated on public opinion during the Persian Gulf crisis and war. First, the level of network news coverage matched the proportion of Gallup… Expand