Gaurav Sood was a National Fellow for the 2013-14 academic year.

He is a social scientist currently focused on exploring group-based affect as it relates to partisanship. In previous work on the topic, he found that many partisans today hold negative stereotypes about supporters of the main opposing party, that partisan affect--especially toward one’s own party--is only modestly founded in policy preferences, and that negative campaigns contribute to a growth in partisan affect. In recent work, he has explored the possibility of ideological accountability under such conditions and whether certain changes in media environment are behind elite polarization. His other research interests include describing certain patterns in news media coverage, exploring their antecedents, and building tools that lower barriers for collecting, and analyzing data.