Paul Michael Sniderman (born 1941) is an American political scientist, and the Fairleigh S. Dickinson Jr.
At Stanford University he chaired the Department of Political Science from 2001 to 2004 and is senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
He has been a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1997.
Sniderman is noted for developing instruments capable of probing attitudes towards sensitive issued like racial or ethnic prejudice that enable researchers to discover the true attitudes of subjects in populations predisposed to give the socially acceptable response rather than express their true feelings.
[3][4][5] Sniderman authored and co-authored numerous publications.