Institute of Political Science

Team from A-Z

Dr. Nathalie Hofstetter

Scientific Collaborator

Institute of Political Science

E-Mail: nathalie.hofstetter@unibe.ch
Office: A 147
Postal Address: University Bern
Institute of Political Science
Fabrikstrasse 8
3012 Bern
Switzerland

Academic Positions
Academic Positions
since 01/2024	Scientific Collaborator, Institute of Political Science, University of Bern
01/2021 - 12/2023	Assistant and PhD Candidate, Institute of Political Science, University of Bern. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Markus Freitag
10/2019 – 11/2019	Research Assistant, Research Project “Familypolicies in Europe” (Project lead: Meret Lütolf), Institute of Political Science, University of Bern
06/2017 – 12/2020	Research Assistant of Prof. Dr. Markus Freitag, Institute of Political Science, University of Bern

University Education
University Education
01/2021 - 12/2023	PhD in Political Science, University of Bern
2019 – 2020	M.A. in Comparative and Swiss Politics, University of Bern
2013 – 2018	B.A. in Social Sciences (Major) and History (Minor), University of Bern

Nathalie Hofstetter & Maximilian Filsinger (2024): A justified bad reputation after all? Dark personality traits and populist attitudes in comparative perspective. Electoral Studies 87: 102728.

Freitag, Markus & Nathalie Hofstetter (2023): Pandemic personality: Emotional reactions, political and social preferences across personality traits in times of Corona. Current Psychology 42: 17359–17373.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-021-02493-x.
Nathalie Hofstetter & Markus Freitag (2023): Volunteering. In M. Grasso & M. Giugni (eds.), Elgar Encyclopedia of Political Sociology. Cheltenham/Northampton: Edward Elgar Publishing, 631 - 634.
Filsinger, Maximilian, Nathalie Hofstetter & Markus Freitag (2023): The emotional fabric of populism during a public health crisis: How anger shapes the relationship between pandemic threat and populist attitudes. European Political Science Review 15: 523-541. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1755773923000036.
Hofstetter, Nathalie (2023): Personality and national identity: How the Big Five relate to civic and ethnic conceptions of nationhood. Nations and Nationalism 29: 562-578. https://doi.org/10.1111/nana.12924.

Freitag, Markus & Nathalie Hofstetter (2022): Pandemic threat and intergroup relations: how negative emotions associated with the threat of Covid-19 shape attitudes towards immigrants. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 48(13): 2985–3004. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2022.2031925.

BA Seminar (Block Seminar), Fall Semester 2023, “The Political Being – An Introduction to Political Psychology” [„Das politische Wesen – Zentrale Aspekte und Themen der politischen Psychologie“], held in German, University of Bern
BA Seminar, Fall Semester 2021, “The Political Being – An Introduction to Political Psychology” [„Das politische Wesen – Zentrale Aspekte und Themen der politischen Psychologie“], held in German, University of Bern

Political, social, and psychological consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic
Political Psychology (esp. personality, emotions, values; intergroup relations; national identity)
Political Sociology (esp. political attitudes; social capital; volunteering)
(Political) Survey research