Survey questions often probe respondents for quantitative facts about events in their past: "During the last 2 weeks, on days when you drank liquor, how many drinks did have?" past 12 months, visits make to a dentist?" "When work at full-time job?" are all examples from national surveys. Although like these an implicit demand remember and enumerate specific autobiographical episodes, frequently have trouble complying because of limits ability recall. In situations, resort inferences that use...

Abstract This article describes a simple model of the effects time on memory. The combines forgetting and telescoping where event is remembered as occurring more recently than it did. tested behavior data for which validation information are available. use records aided recall shown to have opposite memory errors. Records reduce effects, but not errors omission. Aided reduces omissions, does may even increase telescoping. also includes discussion other characteristics interview respondent that affect

This paper is positioned at the intersection of two literatures: partisan polarization and deliberative democracy. It analyzes results from a national field experiment in which more than 500 registered voters were brought together around country to deliberate depth over long weekend on five major issues facing country. A pre–post control group was also asked same questions. The deliberators showed large, depolarizing changes their policy attitudes large decreases affective polarization....

Does deliberation produce any lasting effects? “America in One Room” was a national field experiment which more than 500 randomly selected registered voters were brought from all over the country to deliberate on five major issues facing country. A pre-post control group also surveyed same questions after weekend and about year later. There significant differences voting intention actual behavior later among deliberators compared group. This article accounts for these by showing how...

The theory and practice of what has come to be called “deliberative democracy” have been revived for the modern era with a focus on deliberative microcosms selected through random sampling or “sortition.” But might it possible spread some benefits deliberation beyond mini-publics broader society? Can technology assist scaling an organized process? In particular, would those who experience such process become more voters? Would their considered judgments from influence voting? We draw larger...

Abstract This validation study examined the joint effects of question threat and method administration on response distortion using four interviewing techniques. The level was varied by asking questions about library card ownership, voting, bankruptcy involvement, having been charged with drunken driving. results indicated that increased sharply as increased. None data methods clearly superior to all other for types threatening questions. Randomized gave lowest socially undesirable acts, but...

Journal Article Question Threat and Response Bias Get access NORMAN M. BRADBURN, BRADBURN chairman Department of Behavioral Sciences, Senior Study Director, National Opinion Research Center, University Chicago; Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar SEYMOUR SUDMAN, SUDMAN Business Administration Sociology the Survey Laboratory, Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ED BLAIR, BLAIR Assistant Professor Marketing Houston CAROL STOCKING Director Chicago Public Quarterly,...

The present article concerns the way temporal information is represented in memory and processes used estimating when events occurred. In particular, we examine sources of bias reports time that has elapsed since a target event We find reported times are less than actual times. Evidence presented this forward not result misrepresentation memory, but rather reflects two factors arise constructing from inexact memory. One factor subjects' imposition an upper boundary on reports, reflecting...

This paper is concerned with the development of a theoretical model structure marriage happiness that may be useful for diagnosis, analysis, and prediction. An over-all model, composed dimension satisfactions tensions which function independently to produce in marriage, suggested. The independent dimensions correlate expected directions an individual's own assessment his but do not each other. These characteristics suggest difference between scores on indexes, called "Marriage Adjustment...

Answers to attitude questions in surveys can vary markedly depending on the preceding items questionnaire. This study concerns such context effects. More than 1,100 respondents were asked about six target issues a telephone survey. Before answering questions, most of had been one two sets related issues; remainder received unrelated, "neutral" items. For five issues, groups receiving different differed significantly their answers questions. However, only substantive from group that neutral...

A woman's freedom to choose among alternative life styles in an important predictor of happiness marriage. Both partners are lower marriage if the wife participates labor markert out economic necessity than she by choice. This finding holds across educational levels, stages cycle, and part-time full-time employment. Among less educated, strain comes from increase tensions for husbands a decline sociability wives; while better wives both experience decrease sociability. choice market over...

1. Polling the Public: Purpose and Process 2. Growth of Public Opinion 3. Proper Improper Uses Surveys 4. The Organizations That Do 5. How Information Is Collected 6. Respondents are Selected 7. Asking Question: Wording Affects Response 8. What Answers Mean? 9. Understanding Sources Error 10. Should Polls Be Banned? 11. Effects on Elections, Governments, Business, Media GlossaryReferencesIndex