Research Interests
Júlia Galántai is a research fellow at the Institute for Sociology, Centre for Social Sciences, Budapest. She defended her PhD at the Doctoral School of Sociology, Eötvös Loránd University. Her main research interests include: the division of labor within the household, parenthood, social interactions, and natural language processing. During her doctoral studies, she was awarded a research fellowship from the Ryoichi Sasakawa Young Leaders' Fellowship Foundation of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Previously she was a research fellow at the Institute for Analytical Sociology (IAS), Linköping University in Sweden. In recent years, she has published in international journals such as Discourse and Society and the Journal of Family Violence.
Selected Publications
Galántai, J., Samu, F., & Takács, K. (2025). Gender norms and couples’ conversations on childbearing intentions: A spontaneous speech corpus-based text analysis. Discourse & Society, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/09579265251357964
Pápay, B.T., Kubik, B.G. , Galántai, J. and Takács, K. (2023). Gossip is distinct from other topics in spontaneous conversation. Intersections. East European Journal of Society and Politics. 8, 4 (Jan. 2023), 149–178. DOI: https://doi.org/10.17356/ieejsp.v8i4.939.
Galántai J, Ligeti AS, Wirth J. (2019) Children Exposed to Violence: Child Custody and its Effects on Children in Intimate Partner Violence Related Cases in Hungary. J Fam Violence. 2019; 34(5):399-409. DOI: 10.1007/s10896-019-00066-y
Galántai, J., Pápay, B., Kubik, B. G., Szabó, M. K., & Takács, K. (2018). A pletyka a társas rend szolgálatában az informális kommunikáció struktúrájának mélyebb megértéséért a computational social science eszközeivel. Magyar Tudomány, 179(7), 964-976.
Galántai, J. (2014). Spatial Inequalities and Social Exclusion in Small Schools. HERJ Hungarian Educational Research Journal, 4(4), 72-82.
Research Projects
H2020-ERC-2014-CoG: No Sword Bites So Fiercly as an Evil Tongue? Gossip Wrecks Reputation, but Enhances Cooperation (EVILTONGUE-648693)
