Are Survey Experiments Externally Valid?

By Jason Barabas, Jennifer Jerit. American Political Science Review, 2010

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Subfields: Political Science and International Relations, Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science

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Learning More from Political Communication Experiments: Pretreatment and Its Effects (2012, background): “In light of well-documented publication biases toward significant results (e.g., Gerber et al. 2010), it may be that the picture emerging from published survey framing effect studies overstates the existence of effects (see Barabas and Jerit 2010 for similar evidence).”
The Mediating Role of Emotions (2015, background): “…framing experiments have been criticized for their lack of external validity, which could limit the generalizability of the research findings (Barabas & Jerit, 2010; Kinder, 2007), they are the most suitable methodological approach to disentangle the complex psychological mechanism that…”
Causal Inference in Conjoint Analysis: Understanding Multidimensional Choices via Stated Preference Experiments (2013, unknown): “Yet whereas external validity is an important concern in conjoint analysis (as we discussed in Section 5.3 and also below), any criticism of stated preferences in principle also applies to standard survey experiments (Gaines, Kuklinski, and Quirk 2007; Barabas and Jerit 2010).”
Cross-Sample Comparisons and External Validity (2014, methodology): “While previous work has offered arguments about various samples (Sears 1986), analyzed the role of sample characteristics in already-existing research (Morton and Williams 2010), relied on simulations to trace the effects of sample differences (Druckman and Kam 2011), considered mode effects (Baraba”
The Minimal Persuasive Effects of Campaign Contact in General Elections: Evidence from 49 Field Experiments (2017, background): “It is obvious that the effects of elite attempts to persuade voters will be smaller in real-world, competitive environments than in the artificial survey environments in which scholars typically study them (e.g., Barabas and Jerit 2010).”