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James Cragun is a lecturer and researcher in Political Science at Stony Brook University, specializing in political psychology, quantitative methods, and the intersection of religious faith with political behavior. He earned his Ph.D. in 2020, with a dissertation on individual differences in selective exposure to political information. His research combines computational models and empirical analysis to explore how cognitive biases and religious conviction shape information-seeking behaviors and decision-making.
- Education: B.S. in Psychology (University of Oregon, 2013), M.A. (Stony Brook, 2015), Ph.D. in Political Science (Stony Brook, 2020).
- Teaching: Instructed courses like POL 201: Statistical Methods in Political Science and POL 348: Political Beliefs and Judgment, emphasizing critical thinking, causal inference, and statistical literacy. Designed interactive teaching tools for quantitative concepts.
- Research: Investigates how rigid religious faith amplifies selective exposure to attitude-congruent political information, using experiments and agent-based models to study cooperative behavior and methodological innovations like interactive control variables.
Scientific Awards
- 2018 Departmental Teaching Award, Stony Brook University.
His work bridges political psychology, behavioral economics, and computational modeling, with a focus on understanding irrationality in political judgment and the role of religious cognition in information processing. Current projects include modeling vaccine anticipation effects on compliance.
