Web Survey Bibliography
With increasing frequency JavaScript is used in web studies,often with a certain naivity regarding compatibility issues.These technical problems might result in methodological artefacts with some types of online research,and ethical questions have to be considered as well.However,for reasons of design and applicability of a number of techniques,Web experiments should generally be less prone to possible biases,and between-subjects Web experiments even more so than within-subjects Web experiments (Reips,1999,in press). Consequently,we tested whether a JavaScript version of the Web experiment would result in more or less problems than a traditional CGI version.Therefore we conducted an experiment on a meanwhile well-known phenomenon:the hindsight bias.The hindsight bias is the tendency of people to falsely believe that they would have predicted the outcome of an event correctly,once the outcome is known.Mazursky and Ofir (1990)demonstrated that highly surprising outcomes could eliminate or even reverse the hindsight bias:Participants showed a ”I could not have expected this to happen ”reaction instead of a ”I knew it all along ”reaction. Stahlberg,Sczesny and Schwarz (1999)found a reversed hindsight bias when participants learned about a self-threatening outcome.Stahlberg et al.hypothesized that motivational factors like self-protection would play a role in moderating the hindsight bias.To test whether the surprise or the threat of the outcome leads to a reversal of the hindsight bias we conducted a Web experiment where we experimentally manipulated both factors.In a 2 by 2 factorial design (with the factors highly and not surprising outcome vs.highly and not self-threatening outcome)we expected a strong reversed hindsight bias when the outcome was highly surprising and highly self-threatening.The comparison of the condition highly surprising but not self-threatening outcome with the condition not surprising but highly self-threatening outcome should show which of the two factors surprise or threat will reverse the hindsight bias.Results will be discussed.
Web survey bibliography - 1999 (45)
- Making Web research pay off: A research manager roundup; 1999; Smith, P.
- Back to the Future of Online Polling; 1999; Taylor, H., Terhanian, G., Mitofsky, W. J.
- Nonresponse in Web Surveys; 1999; Vehovar, V.
- Designing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity; 1999; Nielsen, J.
- The Design of an International Real Time Data Collection System: SADC-HYCOS; 1999; Andrews, A. J., Pieyns, S., Servat, E.
- Survey research; 1999; Krosnick, J. A.
- Factors affecting measurement stability. More is not necessarily better: Effects of number of items...; 1999; Thomas, R. K.
- Calibration as a standard method for treatment of nonresponse; 1999; Lundstrom, S., Sarndal, C.-E.
- Question Appraisal System - QAS-99 ; 1999; Willis, G. B., Lessler, J. T.
- Current Internet science - trends, techniques, results. ; 1999; Reips, U.-D., Batinic, B., Bandilla, W., Bosnjak, M., Graef, L., Moser, K., Werner, A.
- Internet Systems for Evaluation Research; 1999; Watt, J. H.
- 'Once would be enough': some reflections on the issue of safety for lone researchers ; 1999; Kenyon, E., Hawker, S.
- The Effect of Incentives on Response Rates in Interviewer-Mediated Surveys; 1999; Singer, E., van Hoewyk, J., Gebler, N., Raghunathan, T., McGonagle, K.
- Measuring the Flow Construct in Online Environments: A Structural Modeling Approach; 1999; Novak, T. P., Hoffman, D. L., Yung, Y.-F.
- Internet Survey Data Collection: The Case Of Webqual; 1999; Deans, K. R., Adam, S.
- Drop-out caused by JavaScript: "I could not have expected this to happen " - A Web experiment...; 1999; Reips, U.-D., Schwarz, S.
- Can Internet Polling Work? Strategies for Conducting Public Opinion Surveys Online; 1999; Flemming, G., Sonner, M.
- Development of a system for on-line evaluation of teaching; 1999; Marsh, J., Jones, Ja., Boehnker, D. N., Mavis, K.
- Improving Electronic Data Collection and Dissemination Through Usability Testing; 1999; Murphy, E. D., Marquis, K., Hoffman, R., Saner, L., Tedesco, H., Harris, C.
- Internet Data Collection at the U.S. Census Bureau; 1999; Kanarek, H., Sedivi, B.
- The internet ... A possible research tool?; 1999; Senior, C., Smith, Mi.
- Casting a wider net; 1999; Marinelli, J.
- Anatomy of an on-line focus group; 1999; Sweet, C.
- On-line focus groups: Mainstream in the millennium?; 1999; Thorne, G.
- In-home CAPI: a new era in data collection?; 1999; Bos, R.
- Recruiting sources for on-line studies; 1999; Bradford, D. P.
- Research and the Internet: a winning combination; 1999; Clarkson, B.
- Surveying collegiate Net surfers; 1999; Wygant, S., Lindorf, R.
- An empirical comparison of traditional and web-based experimental survey administration: Could it be...; 1999; Frey, B. F.
- Japan Has 18 Million Internet Users; 20 Pct. Tried E-Commerce; 1999; Nikkei NetBusiness
- Principis's Web Survey competent for basic tasks; 1999; Marshall, T.
- Complementary and alternative medicine use by patients with inflammatory bowel disease: An Internet...; 1999; Meddings, J. B., Hilsden, R. J., Verhoef, M. J.
- Computer-Assisted Interviewing: The Design and Application of Survey Software to the Wired Suburb Project...; 1999; Hampton, K. N.
- Pollsters.com; 1999; Mitofsky, W. J.
- Realtime Interviewing Using the World Wide Web; 1999; Chen, Pe., Hilton, S. M.
- Comparing Seven Forms of Online Surveying; 1999; MacElroy, B.
- Designing and implementing Web-based surveys; 1999; Lazar, J., Preece, J.
- Overcoming Methodological Concerns in the Investigation of Online Sexual Activities; 1999; Cooper, A., Scherer, C. R., Mathy, R.
- E-mail surveys: what we've learned thus far; 1999; Schuldt, B. A., Totten, J. W.
- Privacy Issues in Internet Surveys; 1999; Cho, H., LaRose, R.
- Research Methodology: Taming the Cyber Frontier-Techniques for Improving Online Surveys; 1999; Kaye, B. K., Johnson, T. J.
- Surveying Through Cyberspace; 1999; Supowitz, J. A.
- Online Research: Methoden, Anwendungen und Ergebnisse ; 1999; Batinic, B., Bandilla, W., Graef, L., Werner, A.
- Ethical decision making in business: A comparison between New Zealand decision makers and a World Wide...; 1999; Frey, B. F.
- Introductory notes on Web interviewing; 1999; Ahlhauser, B.