Adam Berinsky

{{Short description|American academic}} {{Use mdy dates|date=June 2025}} '''Adam J. Berinsky''' (born 1970) is a professor of political science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/adam-berinsky/poll-shows-false-obama-be_b_714503.html | work=Huffington Post | first=Adam | last=Berinsky | title=Poll Shows False Obama Beliefs a Function of Partisanship | date=May 25, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://web.mit.edu/berinsky/www/index.html |title=Adam J. Berinsky |website= |accessdate=September 30, 2011}}</ref> He is the author of the 2004 book ''Silent Voices: Public Opinion and Political Participation in America''<ref>{{Cite journal |jstor = 3521551|last1 = Bennett|first1 = Stephen Earl|title = Reviewed work: Silent Voices: Public Opinion and Political Participation in America, Adam J. Berinsky|journal = The Public Opinion Quarterly|volume = 69|issue = 3|pages = 463–467|year = 2005|doi = 10.1093/poq/nfi035}}</ref><ref>"Silent Voices: Public Opinion and Political Participation in America" Bloch-Elkon, Yaeli. ''Political Science Quarterly'' 120. 3 (Fall 2005): 516-518.</ref><ref>"Adam J. Berinsky (2004). Silent Voices. Public Opinion and Political Participation in America. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 200 pp., {{ISBN|0-691-11587-7}}" Herbst, Susan. ''International Journal of Public Opinion Research'' 17. 2 (Summer 2005): 259-261.</ref><ref>"Silent voices: opinion polls and political representation in America" Warber, A L ''Choice'' 42. 3 (Nov 2004): 563.</ref> and the 2009 book ''In Time of War: Understanding Public Opinion, From World War II to Iraq''.<ref>{{Cite journal | doi=10.1093/poq/nfp099| title=Adam J. Berinsky. In Time of War: Understanding American Public Opinion from World War II to Iraq| journal=Public Opinion Quarterly| volume=74| pages=197–199| year=2010| last1=Brewer| first1=P. R.}}</ref><ref>"In Time of War: Understanding American Public Opinion from World War II to Iraq" Silver, Allan. ''Political Science Quarterly'' 125. 4 (Winter 2010/2011): 708-709.</ref>

A graduate of Hunter College High School in New York City,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.hchsaa.org/Decision2020members | title= Decision 2020--Hunter Journalists and Scholars discuss the US Presidential Election |website= |accessdate=September 13, 2020}}</ref> he completed his undergraduate education at Wesleyan University and received his Ph.D. from The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor from the Department of Political Science in 2000.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://web.mit.edu/berinsky/www/files/vitae.pdf |title=Adam J. Berinsky — CV |website= |accessdate=September 30, 2011}}</ref>

In 2013, Berinsky received the Warren J. Mitofsky Award for Excellence in Public Opinion Research from the Board of Directors of the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research at Cornell University.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://ropercenter.cornell.edu/mitofsky-award-dinner/|title=Mitofsky Award & Dinner - Roper Center|work=Roper Center|access-date=2017-09-18|language=en-US}}</ref>

In 2016 the Finnish government hired him to train their staff in countering Russian disinformation.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/us_experts_gird_finnish_officials_for_information_war/8616336|title=US experts gird Finnish officials for information war|date=22 January 2016}}</ref>

Awarded the Andrew Carnegie Fellow in 2025.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Adam J. Berinsky |url=https://www.carnegie.org/awards/honoree/adam-j-berinsky/ |access-date=September 11, 2025}}</ref>

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==External links== *[http://web.mit.edu/berinsky/www/ Adam J. Berinsky] — MIT page *{{YouTube|id=DhZkomPcYHQ|title=Interview on political beliefs}} with ''The Young Turks''

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