PSC 207

Asking Questions, Part II (Subjective Phenomena)

• Item Wording

• Abramson, P. R., & Ostrom, C. W. (1994). Question wording and partisanship: Change and continuity in party loyalties during the 1992 election campaign. Public Opinion Quarterly, 58, 21-48.

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• Best, S. J., & McDermott, M. L. (2007). Measuring opinions vs. non-opinions: The case of the USA Patriot Act. Forum: A Journal of Applied Research in Contemporary Politics, 5(2).

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• Hippler, H.-J., & Schwarz, N. (1986). Not forbidding isn't allowing: The cognitive basis of the forbid-allow asymmetry. Public Opinion Quarterly, 50, 87-96.

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• Krosnick, J. A. (1989). Question wording and reports of survey results: The case of Louis Harris and associates and Aetna Life and Casualty. Public Opinion Quarterly, 53, 107-113.

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• Krosnick, J. A., Li, F., & Lehman, D. R. (1990). Conversational conventions, order of information acquisition, and the effect of base rates and individuating information on social judgments. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 59, 1140-1152.

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• Rugg, D. (1941). Experiments in wording questions: II. Public Opinion Quarterly, 5, 91-92.

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• Schaeffer, N. C. (1982). A General Social Survey experiment in generic words. Public Opinion Quarterly, 46, 572-581.

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• Schuman, H., & Presser, S. (1981). Questions and answers in attitude surveys: Experiments on question form, wording, and context. New York: Academic Press. (Chapter 11: Tone of Wording)
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• Smith, T. W. (1987). That which we call welfare by any other name would smell sweeter: An analysis of the impact of question wording on response patterns. Public Opinion Quarterly, 51, 75-83.

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• Tversky, A., & Kahneman, D. (1981). The framing of decisions and the psychology of choice. Science, 211, 453-458.

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• Context Effects and Item Order

• Best, S. J., & McDermott, M. L. (2007). Measuring opinions vs. non-opinions: The case of the USA Patriot Act. Forum: A Journal of Applied Research in Contemporary Politics, 5(2).

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• Bishop, G. F. (1987). Context effects on self-perceptions of interest in government and public affairs. In H.-J. Hippler, N. Schwarz, & S. Sudman (Eds.), Social information processing and survey methodology (pp. 179-199). New York: Springer-Verlag.
• Bishop, G. F., Oldendick, R. W., & Tuchfarber, A. (1984). What must my interest in politics be if I just told you "I don't know"? Public Opinion Quarterly, 48, 510-519.

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• Judd, C. M., Drake, R. A., Downing, J. W., & Krosnick, J. A. (1991). Some dynamic properties of attitude structures: Context-induced response facilitation and polarization. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 60, 193-202.

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• McDermott, M. L., & Frankovic, K. A. (2003). Horserace polling and survey method effects: An analysis of the 2000 campaign. Public Opinion Quarterly, 67, 244-264.

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• Schuman, H., & Presser, S. (1981). Questions and answers in attitude surveys: Experiments on question form, wording, and context. New York: Academic Press. (Chapter 2: Question Order and Response Order)
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• Schwarz, N., Strack, F., & Mai, H.-P. (1991). Assimilation and contrast effects in part-whole question sequences: A conversational logic analysis. Public Opinion Quarterly, 55, 3-23.

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• Schwarz, N., & Sudman, S. (Eds.). (1992). Context effects in social and psychological research. New York: Springer-Verlag.
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• Strack, F., Schwarz, N., & Wänke, M. (1991). Semantic and pragmatic aspects of context effects in social and psychological research. Social Cognition, 9, 111-125.

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• Tourangeau, R., Rasinski, K. A., & Bradburn, N. (1991). Measuring happiness in surveys: A test of the subtraction hypothesis. Public Opinion Quarterly, 55, 255-266.

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• Tourangeau, R., Rasinski, K. A., Bradburn, N., & D'Andrade, R. (1989). Belief accessibility and context effects in attitude measurement. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 25, 401-421.

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• Tourangeau, R., Rasinski, K. A., Bradburn, N., & D'Andrade, R. (1989). Carryover effects in attitude surveys. Public Opinion Quarterly, 53, 495-524.

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• Open vs. Closed Questions

• Converse, J. M. (1984). Strong arguments and weak evidence: The open/closed questioning controversy of the 1940s. Public Opinion Quarterly, 48, 267-282.

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• Geer, J. G. (1988). What do open-ended questions measure? Public Opinion Quarterly, 52, 365-371.

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• McDermott, M. L., & Frankovic, K. A. (2003). Horserace polling and survey method effects: An analysis of the 2000 campaign. Public Opinion Quarterly, 67, 244-264.

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• Schuman, H., & Presser, S. (1981). Questions and answers in attitude surveys: Experiments on question form, wording, and context. New York: Academic Press. (Chapter 3: Open versus Closed Questions)
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• Schuman, H., & Scott, J. (1987). Problems in the use of survey questions to measure public opinion. Science, 236, 957-959.

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• Response Order

• Galesic, M., Tourangeau, R., Couper, M. P., & Conrad, F. G. (2008). Eye-tracking data: New insights on response order effects and other cognitive shortcuts in survey responding. Public Opinion Quarterly, 72, 892-913.

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• Ho, D. E., & Imai, K. (2008). Estimating causal effects of ballot order from a randomized natural experiment: The California alphabet lottery, 1978-2002. Public Opinion Quarterly, 72, 216-240.

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• Holbrook, A. L., Krosnick, J. A., Carson, R. T., & Mitchell, R. C. (2000). Violating conversational conventions disrupts cognitive processing of attitude questions. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 36(5), 465-494.
  

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• Krosnick, J. A., & Alwin, D. F. (1987). An evaluation of a cognitive theory of response-order effects in survey measurement. Public Opinion Quarterly, 51, 201-219.

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• McDermott, M. L., & Frankovic, K. A. (2003). Horserace polling and survey method effects: An analysis of the 2000 campaign. Public Opinion Quarterly, 67, 244-264.

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• Miller, J. M., & Krosnick, J. A. (1998). The impact of candidate name order on election outcomes. Public Opinion Quarterly, 62, 291-330.

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