The Impact of Anonymity on Responses to Sensitive Questions

By A. Ong, David J. Weiss. 2000

359 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Applied Psychology, Sociology and Political Science, Statistics and Probability

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/b261e4ebe6b4d8a60957d65ecb8ec458d70f7106

How researchers see this paper

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In Applied Psychology

1. Alessandro Acquisti
2. John E. Buckner
3. George Loewenstein
4. C. Castille
5. Christian N. Thoroughgood

In Sociology and Political Science

1. George Loewenstein
2. Alessandro Acquisti
3. Leslie K. John
4. John E. Buckner
5. C. Castille
6. Christian N. Thoroughgood
7. Laura Brandimarte
8. K. Beratan

In Statistics and Probability

1. Baowen Xu
2. Xin Xia
3. Alessandro Acquisti
4. Pavneet Singh Kochhar
5. George Loewenstein

Citations in the corpus

• Smart Contract Development: Challenges and Opportunities (2021, background): “According to [110], confidentiality and anonymity helped in obtaining un-biased answers from survey respondents.”
• The Impact of Relative Standards on the Propensity to Disclose (2012, background): “Ong and Weiss (2000) surprisingly find that “normalization”—suggesting that a behavior is reputedly commonplace or rare—had no impact on the propensity to admit to behaviors carried out in private.”
• Prosocial Citizens Without a Moral Compass? Examining the Relationship Between Machiavellianism and Unethical Pro-Organizational Behavior (2018, background): “2003), as this has been shown to result in more accurate reports on sensitive topics (Ong and Weiss 2000).”