Curriculum Vitae
Education
- Bachelor of Science, Psychology, University of Oregon, 2013
- M.A., Political Science, Stony Brook University, 2015
- Ph.D., Political Science, Stony Brook University, 2020
Subfield: political psychology & quantitative methods
Dissertation
"Individual Differences in Selective Exposure to Attitude-Congruent Political Information: Intuition, Faith, and Social Environment"
Dissertation committee: John Barry Ryan, Milton Lodge, Stanley Feldman, Paul Djupe
Publications
- Cragun, James (2020) "Rigid Religious Faith Promotes Selective Exposure to Attitude-Congruent Political Information." Political Behavior.
Research works in progress
- Reflectiveness and Intuitiveness as Sources of Individual Differences in Selective Exposure
- Evolution of One-Shot Cooperation Under Uncertainty: An Agent-Based Model
- The Importance of Interactive Control Variables when Testing Interactive Hypotheses
- The Effect of Social Environment Heterogeneity Among Residents of Student Housing on Selective Exposure to Attitude-Congruent Political Information
Conference presentations
- Western Political Science Association 2018
- Midwest Political Science Association 2018
- American Political Science Association 2018
Teaching experience
As course instructor:- POL 201: Statistical Methods in Political Science, 2016 Fall
- POL 201: Statistical Methods in Political Science, 2017 Spring
- POL 201: Statistical Methods in Political Science, 2017 Fall
- POL 201: Statistical Methods in Political Science, 2018 Spring
- Math camp for incoming PhD students, 2018 Summer
- POL 201: Statistical Methods in Political Science, 2019 Spring
- Math camp for incoming PhD students, 2019 Summer
- POL 348: Political Beliefs and Judgment, 2019 Fall
- POL 348: Political Beliefs and Judgment, 2020 Spring
- POL 604: Applied Data Analysis 3 (doctoral-level course), 2018 Fall
Graduate coursework completed
Methods courses:- Applied Data Analysis 1, Yanna Krupnikov (general course in statistical methods)
- Applied Data Analysis 2, Michael Peress (linear models)
- Applied Data Analysis 3, Michael Peress (non-linear models, Maximum Likelihood Estimation)
- Experiment Design, Andy Delton
- Causal Inference, Jason Barabas}
- Game Theory, Martin Steinwand
- Computational Modeling, Oleg Smirnov (especially agent-based models)
- Measurement, Scaling, and Covariance Structure Models, Stanley Feldman
- Statistical Analysis of Big Data, Michael Peress (including Bayesian statistics, machine learning, nonparametrics, automated text analysis, and ideal point estimation)
- Political Psychology, Jennifer Jerit
- Political Economy, Martin Steinwand
- American Politics, John Barry Ryan
- Ideology, Stanley Feldman
- Ecological Rationality, Andy Delton
- Social Influence,Yanna Krupnikov
- Evolutionary Psychology and Political Decision Making, Peter DeScioli
References
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John Barry Ryan
Associate Professor
Stony Brook University
john.ryan@stonybrook.edu
My dissertation advisor
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Jason Barabas
Professor
Stony Brook University
jason.barabas@stonybrook.edu
Instructor of a course for which I served as teaching assistant
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Milton Lodge
Distinguished University Professor
Stony Brook University
milton.lodge@stonybrook.edu
Member of my dissertation committee
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Stanley Feldman
Professor
Stony Brook University
stanley.feldman@stonybrook.edu
Member of my dissertation committee