Adam Berinsky

{{Short description|American academic}}

Adam J. Berinsky (born 1970) is a professor of political science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.{{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}}{{cite web |url=http://web.mit.edu/berinsky/www/index.html |title=Adam J. Berinsky |website= |accessdate=September 30, 2011}} He is the author of the 2004 book Silent Voices: Public Opinion and Political Participation in America{{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}}"Silent Voices: Public Opinion and Political Participation in America" Bloch-Elkon, Yaeli. Political Science Quarterly 120. 3 (Fall 2005): 516-518."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."Silent voices: opinion polls and political representation in America" Warber, A L Choice 42. 3 (Nov 2004): 563. and the 2009 book In Time of War: Understanding Public Opinion, From World War II to Iraq.{{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.}}"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.

A graduate of Hunter College High School in New York City,{{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}} 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.{{cite web |url=http://web.mit.edu/berinsky/www/files/vitae.pdf |title=Adam J. Berinsky — CV |website= |accessdate=September 30, 2011}}

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.{{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}}

In 2016 the Finnish government hired him to train their staff in countering Russian disinformation.{{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}}