Marcus Mann
Social Sciences · Purdue University West Lafayette
Publications
19
Citations
2,158
Est. group size
—
Recurring co-author estimate
Active years
13
Publishing since 2014
Marcus Mann studies how political identity and partisanship shape people's trust in science, media, and institutions, including how conservative or religious identities affect belief in science versus trust in scientists. Recent work explores how right-wing news functions like a quasi-religious belief system, how exposure to conflicting information can push people toward conspiracy narratives, and how social media exposure to opposing political views can increase rather than decrease polarization. This research combines sociology of knowledge, political sociology, and media/communication studies.
Publication output has been uneven over the past decade, with active bursts in 2017-2019 and 2023-2026, but a gap with no recorded publications from 2020-2022.
Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026
- Does medium matter? Political orientation and variability in scientific self-perceptions
Public Understanding of Science · 2026
- Beyond Polarization: Right-Wing News as a Quasi-religious Phenomenon
Sociological Theory · 2025
- Beyond Polarization: Right-Wing News as a Quasi-Religious Phenomenon
2025
- The Role of (Mis)Perceptions of Others’ Institutional Trust in Partisan Group Identity Formation
Advances in group processes · 2025
- Blurred Authorities: How Exposure to Conflicting Accounts Increases Strong Democrats’ Openness to Partisan Conspiracy Narratives
Poetics · 2024
- PATHWAYS TO RADICALISM: EXAMINING ONLINE COMMUNITY AND POLITICAL PATHWAYS TO MORE RADICAL BELIEFS ON REDDIT
AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research · 2023
- Love the Science, Hate the Scientists: Conservative Identity Protects Belief in Science and Undermines Trust in Scientists
Social Forces · 2019
- Sharing Stories, Sharing Bias: How Descriptions of Context Shape Negative Stereotype Use in Response to Accounts of Economic Adversity
Social Problems · 2019
- How Political Differentiation of Knowledge Authority Affects Public Understandings of Science and Political Media
2019
- Exposure to opposing views on social media can increase political polarization
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2018
- Exposure to Opposing Views can Increase Political Polarization: Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment on Social Media
2018
- Is There a “Ferguson Effect?” Google Searches, Concern about Police Violence, and Crime in U.S. Cities, 2014–2016
Socius Sociological Research for a Dynamic World · 2017
- Channeling Hearts and Minds: Advocacy Organizations, Cognitive-Emotional Currents, and Public Conversation
American Sociological Review · 2017
- Perceived Marginalization, Educational Contexts, and (Non)Religious Educational Experience
Journal of College and Character · 2016
- United States of America: Secularist, Humanist, Atheist, and Freethought Bus Advertisements in the United States; Functions, Responses, and Effectiveness
2016
- Socius Sociological Research for a Dynamic World×2
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences×1
- Social Forces×1
- American Sociological Review×1
- Poetics×1
- Mike Gruszczynski
Social Sciences · Indiana University
- Diana Zulli
Social Sciences · Purdue University West Lafayette
- Aidan Combs
Social Sciences · The Ohio State University
- Christine Ogan
Social Sciences · Indiana University
- David C. DeAndrea
Social Sciences · The Ohio State University
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Last updated Jul 20, 2026.
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