Filter questions and question interpretation: Presuppositions at work

Public Opinion Quarterly

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 70-78

  Knäuper, Bärbel ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039390083     PISSN: 0033362X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/297832     Document Type: Review

References (10)

1. Bishop, George F., Robert W. Oldendick, and Alfred J. Tuchfarber. 1983. "Effects of Filter Questions in Public Opinion Surveys." Public Opinion Quarterly 47:528-46.
2. Hippler, Hans-Jürgen, and Norbert Schwarz. 1989. " 'No Opinion' Filters: A Cognitive Perspective." International Journal of Public Opinion Research 1:77-87.
3. Schaeffer, Nora Cate, and Jennifer Dykema. 1994. "Open and Closed Questions about the Frequency of Events: Replication, Extension, Paradox." Working Paper no. 94-18, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Center for Demography and Ecology.
4. Schuman, Howard, and Stanley Presser. 1981. Questions and Answers in Attitude Surveys. San Diego, CA: Academic Press.
5. Schwarz, Norbert. 1996. Cognition and Communication: Judgmental Biases, Research Methods, and the Logic of Conversation. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
6. Schwarz, Norbert, Fritz Strack, Gesine Müller, and Brigitte Chassein. 1988. "The Range of Response Alternatives May Determine the Meaning of the Question: Further Evidence on Informative Functions of Response Alternatives." Social Cognition 6:107-17.
7. Smedslund, J. 1988. "What Is Measured by a Psychological Measure?" Scandinavian Journal of Psychology 29:148-51.
8. Sterngold, Arthur, R. H. Warland, and Richard O. Herrmann. 1994. "Do Surveys Overstate Public Concerns?" Public Opinion Quarterly 58:255-63.
9. Sudman, Seymour, Norman Bradburn, and Norbert Schwarz. 1996. Thinking about Answers: The Application of Cognitive Processes to Survey Methodology. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
10. Winkielman, Piotr, Bärbel Knäuper, and Norbert Schwarz. 1997. "Looking Back at Anger: The Interpretation of Emotion Frequency Questions Depends on the Time Frame Used." Manuscript under review.