The psychology of survey response / Roger Tourangeau, Lance J. Rips, Kenneth Rasinski.

Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.

xiii, 401 pages : black and white illustrations ; 24 cm

Earlier Theories of the Response Process -- A Proposed Model of the Response Process -- Other Recent Proposals: High Road/Low Road Theories -- Applications of the Model -- Implications of the Model -- Respondents' Understanding of Survey Questions -- What Is a Question? -- Two Views of Comprehension: Immediate Understanding versus Interpretation -- Syntactic Difficulties in Question Wording -- Semantic Effects: Presupposition, Unfamiliarity, and Vagueness -- Survey Pragmatics and Its Effects on Comprehension -- The Role of Memory in Survey Responding -- Survey Questions and Memory for Events -- Organization of Autobiographical Memory -- Factors Affecting Recall of Autobiographical Events -- Answering Questions about Dates and Durations -- A Typology of Temporal Questions -- Cognitive Processing of Temporal Questions -- Indirect Effects of Time on Survey Responses -- Factual Judgments and Numerical Estimates -- Cognitive Studies of Frequency -- Studies of Frequency Estimation in Surveys -- Probability Judgments -- Attitude Questions -- The Traditional View -- Alternative Paths to an Answer -- The Belief-Sampling Model -- Tests of the Belief-Sampling Model -- Attitude Judgments and Context Effects -- Forms of Context Effects -- Mechanisms Producing Context Effects -- Variables Affecting the Size and Direction of Context Effects -- Serial Position Effects -- Selecting a Response: Mapping Judgments to Survey Answers -- Open Items and Rounding -- Rating Scales and Scale Anchors -- Unordered Categories and Satisficing.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-380) and indexes.