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PublisherCambridge University Press

ISBN-100521576296

ISBN-139780521576291

eBay Product ID (ePID)1669290

Product Key Features

Number of Pages416 Pages

Publication NamePsychology of Survey Response

LanguageEnglish

SubjectStatistics, Research & Methodology

Publication Year2000

TypeTextbook

AuthorRoger Tourangeau, Lance J. Rips, Kenneth Rasinski

Subject AreaSocial Science, Psychology

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1.1 in

Item Weight21.5 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN99-034664

Reviews"The Psychology of Survey Response provides a masterful review and integration of what we know about survey responding. Written by some of the leading researchers at the interface of psychology and survey methods, this book will be of great interest to survey researchers and psychologists alike." Norbert Schwarz, University of Michigan, "For survey researchers, it provides a very scholarly and readable review of psychological theorizing and its implication for survey responding; for psychologists it offers a range of important phenomena that broaden the scope of psychological inquiry. . . . Readers are guaranteed to gain highly useful new insights from the author's masterful integration of research." International Journal of Public Opinion Research, "This is the best and most comprehensive book in the growing literature on the psychology of survey responding. It includes useful summaries of the behavioral science, often providing better exposition than the primary sources, and it draws clear, useful implications for practice. It is a landmark example of the application of scientific theory and laboratory findings to real life problems." Reid Hastie, University of Colorado at Boulder, "A superb job...Offers an excellent and unique account of cognitive and communicative influences in survey situations. The insights it provides make it an indispensable source for both researchers and practitioners." Contemporary Psychology

Dewey Edition21

TitleLeadingThe

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal300/.723

Table Of Content1. Introduction; 2. Respondents' understanding of survey questions; 3. The role of memory in survey responding; 4. Answering questions about date and durations; 5. Attitude questions; 6. Factual judgments and numerical estimates; 7. Attitude judgments and context effects; 8. Mapping and formatting; 9. Survey reporting of sensitive topics; 10. Mode of data collection; 11. Impact of the application of cognitive models to survey measurement.

SynopsisThis valuable book examines the complex psychological processes involved in answering different types of survey questions. Drawing on both classic and modern research from cognitive psychology, social psychology, and survey methodology, the authors examine how survey responses are formulated and they demonstrate how seemingly unimportant features of the survey can affect the answers obtained. The book provides a comprehensive review of the sources of response errors in surveys, and it offers a coherent theory of the relation between the underlying views of the public and the results of public opinion polls. Topics include the comprehension of survey questions, the recall of relevant facts and beliefs, estimation and inferential processes people use to answer survey questions, the sources of the apparent instability of public opinion, the difficulties in getting responses into the required format, and the distortions introduced into surveys by deliberate misreporting., Drawing on classic and modern research from cognitive psychology, social psychology, and survey methodology, this book examines the psychological roots of survey data. It describes how survey responses are formulated and how seemingly unimportant features of the survey can affect the answers obtained., Drawing on classic and modern research from cognitive psychology, social psychology, and survey methodology, this book examines the psychological roots of survey data, how survey responses are formulated, and how seemingly unimportant features of the survey can affect the answers obtained. Topics include the comprehension of survey questions, the recall of relevant facts and beliefs, estimation and inferential processes people use to answer survey questions, the sources of the apparent instability of public opinion, the difficulties in getting responses into the required format, and distortions introduced into surveys by deliberate misreporting., Examines the complex psychological processes involved in answering different types of survey questions.

LC Classification NumberHN29 .T68 2000