Allyson Holbrook

TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed two ways in which shifting such surveys to random digit dialing (RDD) telephone interviewing might affect the quality of data acquired, and test these hypotheses using data from three different mode experiments.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used data from nine experiments carried out in three household surveys to investigate the effect of no-opinion options on attitude measures and found that the quality of attitude reports was not compromised by the omission of no opinion options.

TL;DR: For example, this article found that the item count technique signifi- cantly reduced turnout reports in a national telephone survey relative to direct self-reports, suggesting that social desirability response bias influ- enced direct self reports in that survey.

TL;DR: In this paper, a model of the causes and consequences of Americans' judgments of the national seriousness of global warming is proposed and tested, and data from two representative sample surveys offer support for all of these propositions, document effects of national seriousness judgments on support for ameliorative efforts generally and specific amelierative policies, and thereby point to psychological mechanisms that may be responsible for institutional and elite impact on the public's assessments of national problem importance and on public policy preferences.