Effects of immediate versus delayed notification of prize draw results on response behavior in web surveys: An experiment

Social Science Computer Review

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 377-384

  Tuten, Tracy L ^a   Galesic, Mirta ^b   Bosnjak, Michael ^c  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Immediacy effect; Incentives; Nonresponse; Web based surveys

Indexed keywords

EID: 3242683661     PISSN: 08944393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0894439304265640     Document Type: Review

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