Cognitive aspects of survey methodology

By Norbert Schwarz. 2007

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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Timing of Stressful Life Events Affects Stability and Change of Neuroticism (2014, result): “However, compared with questionnaires, interviews are more time-consuming and costly and will thus lead to smaller samples and fewer studies (Schwartz, 2007).”
Implicit measures: A normative analysis and review. (2009, background): “Self-report measures, for instance, are known to be susceptible to the effects of many extraneous factors (e.g., social desirability, the precise wording of items, the sequence in which items are presented; see Schwarz, 1999, 2007, for a discussion of some of these factors).”
Improving Survey Methods With Cognitive Interviews in Small- and Medium-Scale Evaluations (2012, background): “These can be characterized as having four components (Bradburn, 2004; Schwarz, 2007): (a) understanding the question (comprehension), (b) retrieving relevant information (retrieval), (c) preparing one’s answer (judgment), and (d) formatting and editing an answer (response).”
Discrimination and racial disparities in health: evidence and needed research (2008, unknown): “More generally, research by cognitive psychologists and survey methodologists provide many insights into how respondents understand, interpret, and respond to questions that would enhance the collection of data on discrimination (Schwarz 2007).”
Measuring Change in a Short-Term Educational Program Using a Retrospective Pretest Design (2009, background): “Another well-documented source of bias in self-report measures is recall accuracy (Schwarz, 2007).”