Social Information Processing and Survey Methodology /

Survey researchers have long been aware that the way in which questions are asked determines the obtained responses. However, the exact processes that mediate response effects remained elusive. In the present volume, cognitive psychologists and survey methodologists explore the cognitive processes t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hippler, Hans-J
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Schwarz, Norbert, Sudman, Seymour
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 1987.
Series:Recent research in psychology.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Editors' Introduction
  • Social Cognition and Social Reality: Information Acquisition and Use in the Laboratory and the Real World
  • Information Processing Theory for the Survey Researcher
  • Bipolar Survey Items: An Information Processing Perspective
  • Answering Survey Questions: The Role of Memory
  • Response Effects in Surveys
  • Thinking, Judging, and Communicating: A Process Account of Context Effects in Attitude Surveys
  • Attitude Measurement: A Cognitive Perspective
  • What Response Scales May Tell your Respondents: Informative Functions of Response Alternatives
  • Context Effects on Self-Perceptions of Interest in Government and Public Affairs
  • Styles of Interviewing and the Social Context of the Survey-Interview
  • Perspectives for Future Development
  • About the Authors.