The framing of risks and the communication of subjective probabilities for victimizations

Quality and Quantity

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1331-1348

  Krumpal, Ivar ^a   Rauhut, Heiko ^b   Böhr, Dorothea ^a   Naumann, Elias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b Chair of Sociology in particular of Modeling and Simulation CLU E6   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Conversational norms; Framing; Response effects; Survey methodology; Vague quantifiers

Indexed keywords

EID: 80054041559     PISSN: 00335177     EISSN: 15737845     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11135-010-9336-6     Document Type: Article

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