Cognitive Aspects of Proxy Reporting in Survey Research

问卷调查和采访日程通常依赖于受访者不仅作为自己的举报人，而且作为他人的举报人（或“代理记者”）。本研究将认知心理学的最新发展引入到影响代理报告质量的条件研究中。将采用多种方法，从实验室实验到焦点小组和调查工具，以便在实验和实地环境中验证研究结果。

Questionnaires and interview schedules routinely depend on respondents to serve not only as informants about themselves but as informants (or "proxy reporters") about others. This study brings recent developments in cognitive psychology to bear on the study of the conditions affecting the quality of proxy reports. A combination of methodologies will be employed, ranging from laboratory experiments to focus groups and survey instruments, so that findings will be validated in both experimental and field settings.