Jon Krosnick

Author of four books and more than 100 articles and chapters, Dr. Krosnick conducts research in three primary areas: (1) attitude formation, change, and effects, (2) the psychology of political behavior, and (3) the optimal design of questionnaires used for laboratory experiments and surveys, and survey research methodology more generally. Dr. Krosnick's scholarship has been recognized with the Phillip Brickman Memorial Prize for Research in Social Psychology, the American Association for Public Opinion Research Student Paper Award, Midwest Political Science Association's Pi Sigma Alpha Award, the Erik Erikson Early Career Award for Excellence and Creativity in the Field of Political Psychology from the International Society of Political Psychology, a fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, the University of Wisconsins Brittingham Visiting Scholar Position, and the American Political Science Association's Best Paper Award.

Jon Krosnick received a B.A. degree in psychology from Harvard University and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in social psychology from the University of Michigan. He has taught courses on survey methodology around the world at universities, for corporations, and for government agencies, including at IBM, Pfizer, the National Opinion Research Center, Total Research Corporation, the American Society of Trial Consultants, the Internal Revenue Service, the National Science Foundation, the U.S. General Accounting Office, the Office for National Statistics, London, UK, the London School of Economics and Political Science, the University of Amsterdam, and the University of Johannesburg. He has provided expert testimony in court and has served as an on-air election-night television commentator. Dr. Krosnick has served as a consultant to such organizations as Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, the Office of Social Research at CBS, the News Division of ABC, the National Institutes of Health, Home Box Office, NASA, the U.S. Bureau of the Census, and the Urban Institute.

Arthur Lupia

Arthur Lupia is the Hal R. Varian Collegiate Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan. He conducts research on topics relevant to politics and policy including voting, elections, persuasion, opinion change, civic education, coalition governance, legislative-bureaucratic relationships and decision-making under uncertainty. His books, articles and editorials addresses these topics by integrating insights from his interactions with mass and elite decision makers with tools and concepts from cognitive science, economics, political science, and psychology.

His work has received many honors including the 1996 Emerging Scholar Award from the American Political Science Association’s Voting, Elections, and Public Opinion Section, The 1998 NAS Award for Initiatives in Research from the National Academy of Science, and the 2007 Warren Mitofsky Innovators Award from the American Association for Public Opinion Research. He has been awarded fellowships from Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (1999-2000) and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and he was inducted as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2004.

Lupia is also very active in developing new means for researchers to better serve science and society. As a founder and co-PI of TESS, he has helped hundreds of scientists from many disciplines run innovative experiments on opinion formation and change using nationally-representative subject pools. As an original and regular contributor to NSF's EITM program, he has helped to develop curricula that show young scholars how to better integrate advanced empirical and theoretical methods into effective research agendas. And now, as a Principal Investigator of the American National Election Studies, he is helping to introduce many new procedural and methodological innovations to one of the world's best-known scientific studies of elections.