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Fail, Stefanie; Schober, Michael F.; Conrad, Frederick G. – International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2021
To explore socially desirable responding in telephone surveys, this study examines response latencies in answers to 27 questions in a corpus of 319 audio-recorded voice interviews on iPhones. Response latencies were compared when respondents (a) answered questions on sensitive vs. nonsensitive topics (as classified by online raters); (b) produced…
Descriptors: Telephone Surveys, Handheld Devices, Responses, Interviews
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Conrad, Frederick G.; Schober, Michael F. – International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2021
Survey interviews are conducted to produce objective, accurate information in which interviewers ask questions as worded and their discretionary speech is carefully managed. To limit interviewer influence over answers and reduce between-interviewer variance, Standardized Interviewing (SI) requires interviewers to administer "nondirective…
Descriptors: Interviews, Language Usage, Questioning Techniques, Structured Interviews