Asking Questions About Behavior: Cognition, Communication, and Questionnaire Construction

By Norbert Schwarz, D. Oyserman. 2001

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Subfields: General Health Professions, Management Science and Operations Research, Sociology and Political Science

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Not Just Any Path: Implications of Identity-Based Motivation for Disparities in School Outcomes. (2013, background): “Fifth, structure of typical questionnaires, using a closed-ended response format increases efficiency of data collection but systematically shifts responses (Schwarz & Oyserman, 2001).”
The path of innovation: purchasing and supplier involvement into new product development (2015, neutral): “Before and during the pre-testing phase a special emphasis was laid on the quality of the construction of questions in order to reduce potential bias resulting from respondents’ misleading cognition (Poggie, 1972; Schwarz & Oyserman, 2001).”
Lab And/Or Field? Measuring Personality Processes and Their Social Consequences (2015, background): “Most researchers are familiar with the assessment of selfreports and many established instruments and guidelines Copyright © 2015 European Association of Personality Psychology exist (Schwarz & Oyserman, 2001).”
Purchase and Consumption Habits: Not Necessarily What You Intend (2007, background): “The reliance on self reports in measuring habit strength raises additional concerns having to do with the way that people estimate their past performance on free-recall measures (e.g., Menon, 1993; Schwarz & Oyserman, 2001 ).”
Consistency of gender differences in bullying in cross-cultural surveys (2019, neutral): “It may also be that different types of behaviours are considered when applying different frequency criteria (cf. Schwarz & Oyserman, 2001) and there are gender differences in the behaviours implied.”
All That Glitters Is Not Gold: How Others’ Status Influences the Effect of Power Distance Belief on Status Consumption (2016, positive): “Based on the response order effect (Schwarz and Oyserman 2001), when participants were asked about their superior first (vs. second), the concept of superior should be more (vs. less) salient, influencing their own purchasing consideration.”
Development of a New Measurement Tool for Individualism and Collectivism (2007, background): “Schwarz and Oyserman (2001) pointed out that respondents may not be able to provide valid reports in such a generalized manner as their responses may be sensitive to differences in contexts.”
The Accuracy of Self-Reported Internet Use—A Validation Study Using Client Log Data (2016, methodology): “…options such as 1 – 5, 6 – 10, 11 – 15 days per month etc. Irrespective of the substantial implications of such a strategy in terms of response burden (Schwarz & Oyserman, 2001), from a purely statistical standpoint, a larger number of categories can reduce the systematic portion of measurement…”
Not Your Average Job: Measuring Farm Labor in Tanzania (2016, positive): “Schwarz and Oyserman (2001) cite evidence that retrospective estimates of income and of tobacco, marijuana, and alcohol consumption are unduly influenced by people’s income and consumption habits at the time of the interview.”
Preparing Teachers to Design Instruction for Deep Understanding in Middle School Earth Science (2009, background): “Such approaches potentially introduce bias into estimates of impact, particularly when survey questions use language to describe practices that are similar to those in teachers' professional development ( Schwartz, 1999 ; Schwartz & Oyserman, 2001 ).”
Cronbach's Alpha: Review of Limitations and Associated Recommendations (2010, background): “How to minimize the occurrence of such unintended variations has remained a source of concern for psychological researchers and practitioners (Clark & Watson, 1995; Krosnick, 1999; Schaeffer & Presser, 2003; Schwarz, 1999; Schwarz & Oyserman, 2001).”
Global and Episodic Reports of Hedonic Experience (2006, neutral): “Clore, 2002; Schwarz & Oyserman, 2001; Schwarz & Sudman, 1994).”
Self-Reports in Consumer Research: The Challenge of Comparing Cohorts and Cultures (2003, background): “0093-5301/2003/2904-0011$10.00”
An Exploratory Study of Process Use: Findings and Implications for Future Research (2003, background): “As Schwarz and Oyserman (2001) explain, “Recalling relevant behaviors from memory often takes considerable time, yet most research interviews allocate less than a minute to each question asked.”
Pleasure and pressure based prosocial motivation: Divergent relations to subjective well-being. (2008, neutral): “Self-report scales of behavior possess several advantages over measures of attitudes but can nonetheless diverge from actual, real-life behavior ( Schwarz & Oyserman, 2001 ).”