RTI Fellow Seminar:
What Americans Really Think About Climate Change—Psychological Insights From 10 Years of National Surveys
Feb 26, 2009; Research Triangle Park, NC
RTI International, the RTI Fellow Program, and RTI Distinguished Fellow Paul Biemer, Ph.D., are proud to sponsor an RTI Fellow Seminar at RTI Headquarters in Research Triangle Park, N.C., Thursday, Feb. 26, 2009, 10:30 to 11:45 a.m. The seminar, titled "What Americans Really Think About Climate Change—Psychological Insights From 10 Years of National Surveys," will be delivered by Jon A. Krosnick of Stanford University.
Seminar Abstract
During the past decade, many scientific experts have been frustrated by the American public's apparent indifference to climate change and the threats it may pose. And even during the last year, headlines on newspapers across the country have proclaimed: "Scientists and the American Public Disagree Sharply Over Global Warming." Is it really true? Do Americans really not accept the opinions of scientific experts on climate change? In this presentation, Jon Krosnick will describe findings from a series of national surveys that he has designed and conducted since 1996, tracking what Americans do and do not believe on this issue and what they do and do not want to have done about it. Surprising results challenge many widely held presumptions about public opinion, illuminate the increasing politicization of the issue, and help set the stage for future legislation on climate change.
Speaker Biography
Jon A. Krosnick, Ph.D., is the Frederic O. Glover Professor in Humanities and Social Sciences at Stanford, where he also holds professorships in communication, political science and psychology. The author of four books and more than 140 chapters and articles, he conducts research in attitude formation, change, and effects; the psychology of political behavior; and survey research methodology, particularly the optimal design of questionnaires.
Before joining the Stanford faculty in 2004, Dr. Krosnick was professor of psychology and political science at Ohio State University, where he was a member of the OSU Political Psychology Program and co-directed the OSU Summer Institute in Political Psychology. He has taught courses on survey methodology around the world at universities, for corporations and for government agencies, including 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 also 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. He has provided expert testimony in court and has served as an on-air election-night television commentator.
Dr. Krosnick has a B.A. degree in psychology from Harvard University and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in social psychology from the University of Michigan.
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Seminar Information
Title
What Americans Really Think About Climate Change: Psychological Insights From 10 Years of National Surveys
Date
Feb. 26, 2009
Time
10:30 to 11:45 a.m
Location
New Building (08 Building) Multipurpose Room
RTI International
3040 Cornwallis Road
Research Triangle Park, N.C.
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