Previous studies show that respondents are generally more likely to disagree with negative survey questions (e.g., This book is bad. Yes/No) than to agree with positive ones (e.g., This book is good. Yes/No). In the current research, we related this effect to the cognitive processes underlying question answering. Using eye-tracking, we show that during the initial reading of the question, negative evaluative terms (e.g., bad) require more processing time than their positive counterparts (e.g., good). In addition to these small differences in the initial stages of question answering, large processing differences occur later in the question answering process: negative questions are re-read longer and more often than their positive counterpart...
The reliability, factor structure, and validity of responses from positively and negatively worded i...
There is strong evidence that comprehenders can parse sentences in an incremental fashion. However, ...
This study mainly discusses how responses to negative questions are given in English and Indonesian....
Previous studies show that respondents are generally more likely to disagree with negative survey qu...
Previous studies show that respondents are generally more likely to disagree with negative survey qu...
Survey designers have long assumed that respondents who disagree with a negative question (“This pol...
Standardized surveys are used in many contexts to measure people’s opinions and attitudes. Although ...
For decades, survey researchers have known that respondents give different answers to attitude quest...
For decades, survey researchers have known that respondents give different answers to attitude quest...
This study compared participant responses to negatively versus positively worded questionnaire state...
It is universally acknowledged that the wording of a survey question can have a strong influence on ...
Question difficulty poses a serious threat to the reliability and validity of survey data. However, ...
An important objective in survey question design is to write clear questions that respondents find e...
The phrasing of a question may reveal presumptions as to its answer. In the case of negative Yes-No ...
Survey methodological research shows over and again that contrastive wordings in attitude questions ...
The reliability, factor structure, and validity of responses from positively and negatively worded i...
There is strong evidence that comprehenders can parse sentences in an incremental fashion. However, ...
This study mainly discusses how responses to negative questions are given in English and Indonesian....
Previous studies show that respondents are generally more likely to disagree with negative survey qu...
Previous studies show that respondents are generally more likely to disagree with negative survey qu...
Survey designers have long assumed that respondents who disagree with a negative question (“This pol...
Standardized surveys are used in many contexts to measure people’s opinions and attitudes. Although ...
For decades, survey researchers have known that respondents give different answers to attitude quest...
For decades, survey researchers have known that respondents give different answers to attitude quest...
This study compared participant responses to negatively versus positively worded questionnaire state...
It is universally acknowledged that the wording of a survey question can have a strong influence on ...
Question difficulty poses a serious threat to the reliability and validity of survey data. However, ...
An important objective in survey question design is to write clear questions that respondents find e...
The phrasing of a question may reveal presumptions as to its answer. In the case of negative Yes-No ...
Survey methodological research shows over and again that contrastive wordings in attitude questions ...
The reliability, factor structure, and validity of responses from positively and negatively worded i...
There is strong evidence that comprehenders can parse sentences in an incremental fashion. However, ...
This study mainly discusses how responses to negative questions are given in English and Indonesian....