Eliciting survey cooperations: Incentives, self-interest, and norms of cooperation

Evaluation Review

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 559-575

  Kropf, Martha E ^a   Blair, Johnny ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY   (United States)

^b ABT ASSOCIATES   (United States)

Author keywords

Cooperative norms; Incentives; Refusal conversion; Survey response

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COOPERATION; EGO; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MOTIVATION; PATIENT SELECTION; POSTAL MAIL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; TELEPHONE; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; EGO; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HELPING BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; MOTIVATION; PATIENT SELECTION; POSTAL SERVICE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOCIAL CONFORMITY; TELEPHONE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 28444498390     PISSN: 0193841X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0193841X05278770     Document Type: Review

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