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Political Psychology
Diego Hernandez
PhD Candidate in Political Science
I study why some people refuse a partisan label, and how that refusal translates into political behavior. My research brings the methods of political psychology to understand a group that most accounts of partisanship treat as a residual category: the American independent.
Stony Brook, New York
Research
More Projects
In addition to my dissertation work, I have research interests in why some individuals say they believe in conspiracies when they do not behave like they truly believe them, and how that signaling behavior maps onto their politics.
survey experiments, quantitative and qualitative methods02
Democratic Governance, Interpersonal Trust, and Interpersonal Responsibility: Do Values Predict Vote Choice in Hypothetical EU Membership Referenda?MA thesis
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Searching For Uniqueness in the Crowd: Conspiracies and their BelieversMSc thesis
Teaching
In the classroom
I teach comparative and European politics, and I build courses around the gap between how institutions are supposed to work and how citizens actually reason about them.
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POL309: Politics of the European Union
Curriculum Vitae
Curriculum vitae
A short version lives here. The full document, with all positions, presentations, and service, is in the PDF.
Education
- 2023–2028 PhD, Political ScienceStony Brook University · Committee: Leonie Huddy, Stephanie DeMora, Pazit Ben Nun-Bloom, Eric Groenendyk
- 2022–2023 MA, Political ScienceStony Brook University · Advisor: Gallya Lahav
- 2020–2021 MSc, Culture and Conflict in a Global EuropeLondon School of Economics and Political Science · Advisor: Cristóbal Garibay-Petersen
- 2018–2020 BA, PoliticsUniversity of California, Santa Cruz
- 2014–2018 AA, Political Science; Liberal Arts: Social and Behavioral Sciences; Liberal Arts: Arts and HumanitiesSanta Barbara City College
Fields & methods
- ·MethodsQuantitative social science, data analysis in R, Python, and SPSS programming languages, social science experiments, Qualtrics; qualitative methods including focus groups and interviews, text-as-data approaches
Tools
Tools
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Contact
Get in touch
Email is the best way to reach me. I am happy to share drafts, materials, or replication code.
- Email diego.hernandez@stonybrook.edu
- Department Political Science, Stony Brook University
- Office N709, Social and Behavioral Sciences Building (SBS) · Stony Brook University
- Academia.edu sbsuny.academia.edu/DiegoHernandez
- LinkedIn in/diego-hernandez-220b821ba
- X @DTHernandez1
- GitHub DiegoHernandezPolPsych