Cognition and Communication: Judgmental Biases, Research Methods, and the Logic of Conversation

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Identity‐Based Motivation: Implications for Health and Health Disparities (2014, background): “Students were either led to believe that their experience (of physical activity as important or impossible) was more frequent or less frequent than others (following Schwarz, 1996).”
What Does It Mean to be Biased: Motivated Reasoning and Rationality (2014, background): “…human irrationality that their results depend on systematic (and misleading) violations of participant expectations and that when discrepancies are reduced, so are the deviations from normative, rational responding (see e.g., Hilton, 1996; Schwarz, 1996 for discussion and specific examples).”
The Nature and Origins of Misperceptions: Understanding False and Unsupported Beliefs About Politics (2017, background): “Such a response is not unreasonable given that the survey researcher has suggested by the construction of the question that the issue or claim in question is legitimate (Schwarz, 2014, p. 35).”
Why researchers should think "real-time": A cognitive rationale. (2012, background): “Their use of this information is licensed by the tacit assumptions that govern the conduct of conversation in daily life (Grice, 1975), which respondents bring to the research situation (for reviews see Schwarz, 1994, 1996).”