09-13-95 Jon Krosnick Receives Research Award

KROSNICK RECEIVES NATIONAL AWARD FOR RESEARCH ACCOMPLISHMENTS

     COLUMBUS -- An Ohio State University faculty member has 
received the prestigious Erik H. Erikson Award from the 
International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP).

     Jon A. Krosnick of WORTHINGTON, associate professor of 
political science and psychology, received the award, which is 
given annually to a scholar whose work exemplifies excellence and 
creativity.

     "Professor Krosnick is certainly one of the most energetic 
and active young scholars in the political psychology field," 
said David Sears, outgoing president of the ISPP.

     "He has already made important contributions in several 
fields, including the methodology of survey research and analysis 
of voter behavior," Sears said.

     Krosnick's research has focused on understanding Americans' 
beliefs on such controversial political issues as abortion, gun 
control and capital punishment.  He has shown how these 
preferences are largely formed during early adulthood, but can
later be influenced by the news media as well as by subliminal 
processes of which people are not even aware.  He has also shown 
that most citizens attach great personal importance to just a few 
issues, and these issues play central roles in guiding their
thinking about all of politics.

     Another focus of Krosnick's work has been the way in which 
small changes in survey questions can produce large changes in 
the reports people give of their political attitudes and beliefs.  
Through his research in this area, he has identified many ways to 
improve the design of questionnaires to measure public 
preferences.

     Krosnick has provided advice on questionnaire design to 
federal agencies (including the U.S. General Accounting Office, 
the U.S. Bureau of the Census, and the National Institutes of 
Health) and he has testified on voting before the Supreme Court 
of the state of Ohio.

     Krosnick has published three books on political attitudes 
and survey research and is currently completing a fourth.  He has 
published more than 50 book chapters and articles in leading 
political science and psychology journals and has delivered 85 
papers at national and international conferences.  In addition to 
his teaching at Ohio State, he is an annual lecturer at the 
University of Michigan's Summer Institute in Survey Research 
Techniques.

     Krosnick is a faculty member of Ohio State's program in 
political psychology and is co-director of the university's 
Summer Institute in Political Psychology, a one-month intensive 
training program that hosts 60 students from more than 10 
countries each year.

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Contact:  Jon Krosnick, (614) 292-3496


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