Abstract
Questionnaires are used to elicit from individuals a broad array of objective information as well as subjective information about their thoughts and perceptions. This article focuses on a single topic about questionnaires - how to elicit respondents' subjective expectations of future events. Subjective expectations are being measured with increasing frequency, yet the social and behavioral sciences have not formed a common view on how expectations should be conceptualized and measured. A particularly intriguing controversy, described in this article, concerns the relative merits of verbal and probabilistic forms of questioning.
Original language | English (US) |
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Title of host publication | International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences: Second Edition |
Publisher | Elsevier Inc. |
Pages | 776-780 |
Number of pages | 5 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9780080970875 |
ISBN (Print) | 9780080970868 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Mar 26 2015 |
Keywords
- Attitudinal research
- Decision making
- Questionnaires
- Subjective expectations
- Subjective phenomena
- Subjective probabilities
- Survey research
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Social Sciences(all)