Reducing Vote Overreporting in Surveys: Social Desirability, Memory Failure, and Source Monitoring
Снижение завышенной отчетности о голосовании в опросах: социальная желательность, провалы памяти и мониторинг источников
1999-01-01
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ROBERT F. BELLI, MICHAEL W. TRAUGOTT, MARGARET YOUNG, KATHERINE A. MCGONAGLE; Reducing Vote Overreporting in Surveys: Social Desirablity, Memory Failure, a
Key Findings
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Addressing social desirability, memory, and source monitoring can reduce vote overreporting in survey measurement.
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Memory failures contribute to overreporting when respondents misremember voting behavior.
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Social desirability motivations lead to systematic upward bias in self-reported turnout in surveys.
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Source monitoring errors cause respondents to confuse others' voting behavior with their own, inflating reported turnout.
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Survey respondents overreport voting due to social desirability, memory failure, and source monitoring errors.
Research Object
Reported voting behavior in surveys (self-reported votes)
Research Subject
Sources and causes of vote overreporting in surveys: social desirability bias, memory failure, and source-monitoring errors affecting accuracy of reported voting
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