TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tourangeau,Roger
AU  - Rips,Lance J.
AU  - Rasinski,Kenneth .
TI  - The psychology of survey response
SN  - 9780521576291 (pbk.) :
U1  - 300.723 21
PY  - 2000///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Social surveys
KW  - Psychological aspects
KW  - Psychology
KW  - Public opinion polls
KW  - Evaluation
N1  - Paperback. Trade paperback (US); Introduction - Respondents' understanding of survey questions - The role of memory in survey responding - Answering questions about date and durations - Attitude questions - Factual judgments and numerical estimates - Attitude judgments and context effects -  Mapping and formatting - Survey reporting of sensitive topics - Mode of data collection - Impact of the application of cognitive models to survey measurement
N2  - This 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
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