| Social Information Processing and Survey Methodology 1987 Edition Contributor(s): Hippler, Hans-J (Editor), Schwarz, Norbert (Editor), Sudman, Seymour (Editor) |
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ISBN: 038796570X ISBN-13: 9780387965703 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $104.49 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 1987 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Gardening - Social Science | Sociology - General - Medical |
| Dewey: 301.072 |
| LCCN: 87016559 |
| Series: Recent Research in Psychology |
| Physical Information: 0.49" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.73 lbs) 223 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 that underlie respondents' answers to survey questions. The contributors provide an introduction to information processing theories for survey researchers, review current knowledge of response effects in the light of recent theorizing in cognitive psychology, and report a number of experimental studies on question context and question wording. In combination, the chapters provide a theoretical framework for the analysis of response effects in surveys and raise a number of applied and theoretical issues that have so far not been addressed in cognitive psychology. |