Annual Review of Psychology
Annual Review of Psychology

Author: Calvin Perry Stone

Publisher:

Published: 1995-03

Total Pages: 772

ISBN-13:

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Publishes original critical reviews of the significant literature and current developments in psychology.

Judgment and Decision Making
Judgment and Decision Making

Author: Baruch Fischhoff

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-06-17

Total Pages: 405

ISBN-13: 1136497331

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Behavioral decision research offers a distinctive approach to understanding and improving decision making. It combines theory and method from multiple disciples (psychology, economics, statistics, decision theory, management science). It employs both empirical methods, to study how decisions are actually made, and analytical ones, to study how decisions should be made and how consequential imperfections are. This book brings together key publications, selected to represent the major topics and approaches used in the field. Put in one place, with integrating commentary, it shows the common elements in a research program that represents the scope of the field, while offering depth in each. Together, they provide a vision for what has become a burgeoning field.

The Psychology of Survey Response
The Psychology of Survey Response

Author: Roger Tourangeau

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2000-03-13

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 9780521576291

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This valuable book examines the complex psychological processes involved in answering different types of survey questions. Drawing on both classic and modern research from cognitive psychology, social psychology, and survey methodology, the authors examine how survey responses are formulated and they demonstrate how seemingly unimportant features of the survey can affect the answers obtained. The book provides a comprehensive review of the sources of response errors in surveys, and it offers a coherent theory of the relation between the underlying views of the public and the results of public opinion polls. Topics include the comprehension of survey questions, the recall of relevant facts and beliefs, estimation and inferential processes people use to answer survey questions, the sources of the apparent instability of public opinion, the difficulties in getting responses into the required format, and the distortions introduced into surveys by deliberate misreporting.