Jon A. Krosnick

About

Social psychologist, political scientist, and survey methodologist Jon Krosnick is a Professor at Stanford University and a Research Psychologist at the U.S. Census Bureau. A specialist in the psychology of voters and elections, in the measurement of facts and opinions through surveys, and in a variety of other topics, he offers services in four main areas: as an expert witness in legal proceedings, as a consultant to businesses and government agencies offering tailored advice on how to conduct quantitative social science research, as an instructor teaching workshops to students and professionals on how to conduct top-quality survey research and especially on how to design questionnaires optimally, and as a lecturer making presentations to the general public.

Research topics

• Artificial Intelligence
• Computer Science
• Psychology
• Mathematics
• Political Science
• Computer Security
• Engineering
• Biology
• Applied psychology
• Social psychology

Selected publications

• High Replicability of Newly-Discovered Social-behavioral Findings is Achievable

  2020 · 56 citations

  Failures to replicate evidence of new discoveries have forced scientists to ask whether this unreliability is due to suboptimal implementation of methods or whether presumptively optimal methods are not, in fact, optimal. This paper reports an investigation by four coordinated laboratories of the prospective replicability of 16 novel experimental findings using rigor-enhancing practices: confirmatory tests, large sample sizes, preregistration, and methodological transparency. In contrast to past…

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• RETRACTED ARTICLE: High replicability of newly discovered social-behavioural findings is achievable

  Nature Human Behaviour · 2023 · 53 citations

  Failures to replicate evidence of new discoveries have forced scientists to ask whether this unreliability is due to suboptimal implementation of methods or whether presumptively optimal methods are not, in fact, optimal. This paper reports an investigation by four coordinated laboratories of the prospective replicability of 16 novel experimental findings using rigour-enhancing practices: confirmatory tests, large sample sizes, preregistration and methodological transparency. In contrast to past…

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• Resistance to purchasing all-electric vehicles: Evidence from a national survey

  Journal of Environmental Psychology · 2023-08-22 · 17 citations

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  Retraction Note: High replicability of newly discovered social-behavioural findings is achievable

  Nature Human Behaviour · 2024-09-24 · 8 citations

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• Americans’ Attitudes toward the Affordable Care Act: What Role Do Beliefs Play?

  The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science · 2022-03-01 · 3 citations

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  How do people form their attitudes toward complex policy issues? Although there has long been an assumption that people consider the various components of those issues and come to an overall assessment, a growing body of recent work has instead suggested that people may reach summary judgments as a function of heuristic cues and goal-oriented rationalizations. This study examines how well a component-based model fits Americans’ evaluations of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 201…

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Recent grants

• Documenting the Mechanisms of Belief and Attitude Change on Controversial Issues: The Case of Global Warming and Trust in Scientists

  NSF · $200k · 2010–2012

• MRI: Development of a Computer Network for Experimental and Non-Experimental Data Collection via the Internet from a Nationally Representative Sample of American Households

  NSF · $2.0M · 2006–2014

Frequent coauthors

• W. Michael Hanemann

  57 shared

• Richard T. Carson

  Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust

  55 shared

• Stanley Presser

  University of Maryland, College Park

  55 shared

• Robert Cameron Mitchell

  Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

  53 shared

• V. Kerry Smith

  RTI International

  50 shared

• Michael B. Conaway

  49 shared

• Josh Pasek

  University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

  47 shared

• Raymond J. Kopp

  Resources For The Future

  46 shared

Labs

• Political Psychology Research GroupPI

  Research on attitude formation, changes, and effects, on the psychology of political behavior, and on current survey research methods.

Education

• Ph.D., Political Science

  Stanford University

Awards & honors

• American Association for Public Opinion Research’s Lifetime…
• Nevitt Sanford Award from the International Society of Polit…
• Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Sc…
• Erik Erikson Award for Excellence and Creativity in the Fiel…

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