Survey Satisficing Inflates Stereotypical Responses in Online Experiment: The Case of Immigration Study
Survey Satisficing Inflates Stereotypical Responses in Online Experiment: The Case of Immigration Study
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DOI：
10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01563
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发表时间：
2016-10-18
影响因子：
3.8
通讯作者：
Kobayashi, Tetsuro
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作者：
Miura, Asako;Kobayashi, Tetsuro
虽然调查满意，勉强认知努力，需要在调查响应过程中提供最佳的答案，构成了严重的威胁，在线实验的有效性，一个详细的解释机制尚未建立。关注对移民的态度，我们研究了调查满意度扭曲在线实验中的治疗效果估计的机制。我们假设，满足者会显示更多的刻板印象的反应比非满足者会与刻板印象不确认信息的移民。两个实验的结果在很大程度上支持了我们的假设。满意者，我们确定通过教学操作检查（IMC），处理移民的人格特质的信息一致的刻板印象激活的信息提供有关国籍。满足者的小插曲阅读时间显著缩短，这证实了他们基于刻板印象的高效印象形成。然而，满足者的浅信息处理可以通过使用重复的IMC来提醒他们注意他们的疏忽来纠正。
Though survey satisficing, grudging cognitive efforts required to provide optimal answers in the survey response process, poses a serious threat to the validity of online experiments, a detailed explanation of the mechanism has yet to be established. Focusing on attitudes toward immigrants, we examined the mechanism by which survey satisficing distorts treatment effect estimates in online experiments. We hypothesized that satisficers would display more stereotypical responses than non-satisficers would when presented with stereotype-disconfirming information about an immigrant. Results of two experiments largely supported our hypotheses. Satisficers, whom we identified through an instructional manipulation check (IMC), processed information about immigrants' personality traits congruently with the stereotype activated by information provided about nationality. The significantly shorter vignette reading time of satisficers corroborates their time-efficient impression formation based on stereotyping. However, the shallow information processing of satisficers can be rectified by alerting them to their inattentiveness through use of a repeated IMC.