Context Effects in Social and Psychological Research

A collection of papers showing that in recent years, researchers have somewhat modified their views about context and order effects in surveys and tests that involve systematic question probes. The contributors review current knowledge of context effects and report on new experimental studies.

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A collection of papers showing that in recent years, researchers have somewhat modified their views about context and order effects in surveys and tests that involve systematic question probes. The contributors review current knowledge of context effects in the lght of recent theories in cognitive psychology, and report on new experimental studies. At stake now are clear, practical needs in the structuring of reliable tests, and a strong interest to develop a coherent theoretical framework to assess and scrutinize context effects, in addition to the desire to align some of the findings in survey research studies with the discoveries made in the information-processing field.