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Social Information Processing and Survey Methodology

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  • © 1987

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Editors:
  1. Hans-J. Hippler

    1. Zentrum für Umfragen, Methoden und Analysen, Mannheim, Germany

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  2. Norbert Schwarz

    1. Psychologisches Institut, Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

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  3. Seymour Sudman

    1. Departments of Business Administration and Sociology, Survey Research Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, USA

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Part of the book series: Recent Research in Psychology (PSYCHOLOGY)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Editors’ Introduction

    • Hans-J. Hippler, Norbert Schwarz, Seymour Sudman
    Pages 1-5

  3. Social Cognition and Social Reality: Information Acquisition and use in the Laboratory and the Real World

    • Galen V. Bodenhausen, Robert S. Wyer Jr.
    Pages 6-41

  4. Information Processing Theory for the Survey Researcher

    • Reid Hastie
    Pages 42-70

  5. Bipolar Survey Items: An Information Processing Perspective

    • Thomas M. Ostrom
    Pages 71-85

  6. Answering Survey Questions: The Role of Memory

    • Gerhard Strube
    Pages 86-101

  7. Response Effects in Surveys

    • Hans-J. Hippler, Norbert Schwarz
    Pages 102-122

  8. Thinking, Judging, and Communicating: A Process Account of Context Effects in Attitude Surveys

    • Fritz Strack, Leonard L. Martin
    Pages 123-148

  9. Attitude Measurement: A Cognitive Perspective

    • Roger Tourangeau
    Pages 149-162

  10. What Response Scales may Tell your Respondents: Informative Functions of Response Alternatives

    • Norbert Schwarz, Hans-J. Hippler
    Pages 163-178

  11. Context Effects on Self-Perceptions of Interest in Government and Public Affairs

    • George F. Bishop
    Pages 179-199

  12. Styles of Interviewing and the Social Context of the Survey-Interview

    • Wil Dijkstra, Johannes van der Zouwen
    Pages 200-211

  13. Perspectives for Future Development

    • Seymour Sudman
    Pages 212-219

  14. About the Authors

    • Hans-J. Hippler, Norbert Schwarz, Seymour Sudman
    Pages 220-223
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Zentrum für Umfragen, Methoden und Analysen, Mannheim, Germany

    Hans-J. Hippler

  • Psychologisches Institut, Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

    Norbert Schwarz

  • Departments of Business Administration and Sociology, Survey Research Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, USA

    Seymour Sudman

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Social Information Processing and Survey Methodology

  • Editors: Hans-J. Hippler, Norbert Schwarz, Seymour Sudman

  • Series Title: Recent Research in Psychology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4798-2

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag New York Inc. 1987

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-0-387-96570-3Published: 01 September 1987

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4612-4798-2Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 1431-7532

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 223

  • Topics: Psychology, general, Statistics for Social Sciences, Humanities, Law

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