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Jon A. Krosnick is a professor in humanities and social sciences and professor of communication, political science, and psychology at Stanford University. He works on questionnaire and survey design and analyzing their methods, psychology of social attitudes, psychology of voter choice behavior, and attitudes toward global warming. He has also consulted for several organizations and testified in court proceedings. Krosnick is also a jazz drummer for a music band.

Personal life

Krosnick was born in 1959 outside of Philadelphia to an opera-singer mother and a father who loved the opera. He got early into music, starting on the piano at age 6, going to a music camp at Interlochen at age 9, and being influenced by jazz drummer Peter Erskine there. He would continue playing percussion instruments from elementary school on, becoming a member of the contemporary electric jazz band, Charged Particles. Krosnick went to Lawrenceville School in Lawrenceville, New Jersey, graduating from the school in 1976. Then he went to Harvard University for his undergraduate studies, majoring in psychology. He obtained a PhD in social psychology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Krosnick then accepted a faculty position in the departments of psychology and at Ohio State University, Columbus. Later he moved to Stanford, where his wife, Cathy Heaney, also accepted a position. He now lives at Portola Valley, next to Stanford.

Work

Krosnicks work focuses on the design and methodology of questionnaires and surveys, and he has served as a consultant to the government, academia and industry on these issues. He has also worked on the psychology of attitudes, researching how voters make up their minds and how campaigns influence them. He has conducted research into the survey results on American attitudes toward global warming, how negativity in campaigns affects turnout, ballot-order effect, how wording of an amendment matters, and global warming and analyzing polls on the public perception on global warming. He has also been an on-television commentator on election night.

Global warming

Krosnick has both conducted surveys and analyzed previous ones on global warming, some as part of his work at Stanford's Woods Institute for the Environment. His survey found, in 2007, that most Americans accept global warming, but by a two-thirds majority are not convinced signficant efforts are needed to stop it. Scientists are finding this lack of public concern a problem. Krosnick considers the media providing equal coverage to both sides of the debate, not in proportion to how strongly the views are represented among experts, a prime reason for the public's disbelieving scientists are united on the issue. He has also analyzed a 2006 poll by ABC news, Time and Stanford, which showed the public has grown more concerned about global warming over the previous decade, with more than two-thirds believing in unsettled weather patterns caused by human activity. Krosnick believes not acting now will cost the world more in the future.

Positions

• Frederic O. Glover Professor in Humanities and Social Sciences and professor of communication, political science, and by courtesy, psychology, at Stanford
• Director of the Political Psychology Research Group (PPRG) at Stanford
• Director of the Summer Institute in Political Psychology at Stanford
• Co-principal investigator of the American National Election Study
• Associate Director, Institute for Research (2008) in the Social Sciences at Stanford.

Prizes

• Phillip Brickman Memorial Prize
• Pi Sigma Alpha Award
• Erik Erikson Early Career Award for Excellence and Creativity
• Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences
• Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; elected in 2010 to the section on social, economic, and political sciences.

List of books

• Krosnick, Jon; Pasek, Josh (2010). "Optimizing survey questionnaire design in political science: Insights from psychology". In Leighley, Jan E (ed.). The Oxford Handbook of American Elections and Political Behavior. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199235476.003.0003. ISBN 978-0-19-923547-6.
• Weisberg, H.; Krosnick, J. A.; Bowen, B. D. (1996). An Introduction to Survey Research, Polling, and Data Analysis (3 ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. ISBN 0-8039-7401-9.
• Jon A. Krosnick, ed. (1990). "Social Cognition". 8 (1). New York, NY: Guilford Press. doi:10.1521/soco.1990.8.1.1. {{cite journal}}: |chapter= ignored (help); Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

Work in the public eye

http://news.stanford.edu/news/2011/january/aaas-science-fellow-011211.html : AAAS fellow

http://www.aaas.org/news/releases/2011/0111fellows.shtml: in the section on Social, Economic and Political Sciences

http://www.stanford.edu/group/sipp/ : Directed summer institute in Political Psychology at Stanford

http://news.stanford.edu/news/2007/february21/gwaaassr-022107.html : Survey results on American attitudes toward global warming (strong secondary source)

https://ecf.oknd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/DisplayPDF.pl?dm_id=867370&dm_seq=13 Videotaped deposition in a case by the US Attorney against Tyson Foods (public domain record)

http://news.stanford.edu/news/2012/august/election-campaign-nastiness-080812.html Krosnick's own statements (direct attribution) on how negativity in campaigns affects turnout, etc.

http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/califgov.htm Direct attribution again: Study on how order of listing of candidates affects votes

http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/bushfla.htm: Similar to above

http://www.uvm.edu/~vlrs//PoliticalProcess/ballotordereffects.pdf Ballot order effect study by Krosnick. Strong secondary source (report prepared for the Secretary of State, Vermont by a prof at University of Vermont)

http://alumni.stanford.edu/get/page/magazine/article/?article_id=42536 General article on Krosnick

http://news.stanford.edu/news/2006/september27/krosnick-092706.html An article pretty much on Krosnick

http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/March07/Krosnick.cover.SB.html Good secondary source covering some of Krosnick's ideas on survey data collection

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/DyeHard/global-warming-polls-climate-change/story?id=10921583#.UD-dQpjfJ8F Compares the 2010 Krosnick poll to some other polls. Reliable source (written NPOV)

http://www.nationaljournal.com/njonline/no-such-thing-as-a-perfect-sample-20091019 Specific article quoting and paraphrasing Krosnick is good. Need to check how the magazine itself is.

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/sciencefair/post/2010/12/survey-more-fox-news-more-climate-doubts/1#.UD-ePZjfJ8E Correlation between watching Fox news and distrusting scientists: Krosnick study (no causation direction)

http://news.stanford.edu/pr/2012/pr-climate-change-survey-050812.html Krosnick survey showing support for climate change action has dropped. Secondary source.

http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/califelec.htm An Ohio State University report on how a Krosnick deposition helped unseat a California mayor who won in a close election (ballot order effect tampering)

http://www.osu.edu/news/releases/95-09-13_Jon_Krosnick_Receives_Research_Award Erik H Erikson award from ISPP (no early life info though)

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/03/study-raises-new-questions-for-opt-in-online-data/ Questions about opt-in online polls (by a PhD student of Krosnick, but he is a coauthor)

http://www.hks.harvard.edu/presspol/publications/papers/discussion_papers/d42_sproul.pdf Joan Shorestein Center at Harvard: Report. Includes Krosnick's ideas of survey methods

http://cen.acs.org/articles/90/i22/Science-Communication.html More on what Krosnick has to say on where Americans stand with regards to climate change

http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2010/09/30/30climatewire-how-republicans-managed-to-rebrand-cap-and-t-95204.html?pagewanted=all The New York Times, again on global warming (this seems overrepresented)

http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/news_cut/archive/2012/07/are_minnesota_voters_capable_o.shtml Wording of an amendment matters because many people read one for the first time when they actually vote on it. Notable largely because the secondary source reporting it is a credible one.

http://www.springerlink.com/content/qx82706332123228/ On the list of referees for the journal Political Behavior.

http://www.apa.org/monitor/2008/06/ballot.aspx His views on ballots etc.

http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/uncategorized/sbe-advisory-committee-holds-meeting.html : Chair of an APS subcommittee on Data and Surveys

http://www.aapor.org/am/template.cfm?section=executivecouncil&template=/cm/contentdisplay.cfm&contentid=5144 Was chair of AAPOR (American Association for Public Opinion Research)

http://www.aaas.org/news/releases/2010/0322climate.shtml Another strong source on his views on global warming and public opinion. Also news on Capitol Hill briefing sponsored by AAAS.

More academic secondary-source coverage

<Researching: obviously does exist: need to search for "reviews of" his books>

Trivia

http://www.stanforddaily.com/2010/09/21/professor-snapshot-jon-krosnick/ A self-report snapshot. Useful for a sentence or two of light trivia. Not an RS for major biographical information.

External links

http://article.wn.com/view/2012/02/21/The_True_Politics_of_Climate_Change_A_Video_Interview_with_J/ A video interview usable as an external link (not an RS)

http://www.youtube.com/course?list=EC5FAFCB66EBA33531&feature=plcp : NSF video on a Krosnick presentation; usable as an external link.

http://membercentral.aaas.org/multimedia/videos/global-challenges-2010-climate-and-energy-policy-new-congress A AAAS discussion on global challenges with Krosnick on the panel. Useful as external link.