Report on the Survey Research Center’s Surveys of Consumer Attitudes

v. 1. Report and case studies – v. 2. Theory and bibliographies – v. 3. Proceedings of the Symposium.

Reducing question order effects: The operation of buffer items

The psychology of survey response

An introduction and a point of view — Respondents’ understanding of survey questions — The role of memory in survey responding — Answering questions about dates and durations — Factual judgments and numerical estimates — Attitude questions — Attitude judgments and context effects — Selecting a response: Mapping judgment to survey answers — Editing of… Continue reading The psychology of survey response

Casting a wider net: Contributions from new disciplines

Contexts effects on answers to attitude questions

Design considerations for questionnaire development

Written and edited by leading experts, this volume offers an overview of and solid foundation in up-to-date survey questionnaire issues, concerns, and responses. This work has been prepared in conjunction with an international conference on the topic (in November 2002) by the Survey Research Methods Section of the American Statistical Association, the American Association for… Continue reading Design considerations for questionnaire development

Cognition and survey research

Survey methods research–an interdisciplinary approach. Introducing the theory and tools of cognitive aspects of survey methodology (CASM)–a movement that has greatly contributed to the evolving field of survey methods research–this collection of monographs explores advances in the use of cognitive psychology and other sciences to improve the quality of data collected in surveys. In 22… Continue reading Cognition and survey research

Answering questions : methodology for determining cognitive and communicative processes in survey research

Cognition, aging, and self-reports

This chapter introduces readers to the cognitive and communicative processes underlying self-reports and highlights how age-related changes in cognitive and communicative functioning influence these processes. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2007 APA, all rights reserved) (from the chapter)

Questionnaire design: The rocky road from concepts to questions