

Rajeshwari Majumdar
Postdoctoral Associate, Yale University
Rajeshwari Majumdar is a Postdoctoral Associate at Yale University, where she is affiliated with the Identity & Conflict Lab in The MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies. Before joining Yale, she received her PhD in Politics from NYU. Her research interests lie in political behavior, experimental methods, and Indian politics, focusing on topics such as ethnic and partisan identities, intergroup relations, religious nationalism, and social media.
Recent work by Rajeshwari Majumdar
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Reducing exposure to misinformation: Evidence from WhatsApp in Brazil
Deactivating multimedia on WhatsApp in Brazil consistently reduced exposure to online misinformation during the pre-election weeks in 2022, but did not impact whether false news was believed, or reduce polarisation.
Published 16.08.24