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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.