Acquisition of an Experimental Survey Research Laboratory in the Social Sciences at SUNY, Stony Brook

在国家科学基金会的支持下，Leonie Huddy博士和他的同事们将建立一个中央多功能实验调查研究实验室，作为电话调查实验室和实验态度研究实验室。调查设施将允许访问随机访问的成年人样本，使用最新技术，包括语音记录和分析功能，在调查中构建随机实验的软件，以及响应时间测量。语音记录功能将允许分析受访者的语言和副语言提示，如充满停顿和上升语调，以传达有关不确定性的信息。该实验室将配备最先进的软件和硬件，用于通过电话和直接在实验室收集调查数据。计算机将配备标准的计算机辅助电话面谈软件、反应延迟能力、语音记录和分析设备以及可编程软件，以便纳入对测量自动态度至关重要的潜意识。该实验室将包括12个单独的工作站，它们配备了耳机，并由办公室面板隔开。每个工作站都将从一个中央服务器运行。在将为第一套倡议提供核心的四个项目中，有两个项目由政治学家指导，涉及政治态度的理论和衡量。其中一个将集中在各种种族态度的预测有效性上，并触及一系列关于当代美国社会中“真实”种族态度的隐蔽性质的核心理论问题。第二种观点认为，许多人(如果不是大多数人)的政治态度都是建立在矛盾心理之上的，这种观点对当代的舆论和态度稳定理论构成了严重挑战。其他项目解决了许多事实调查问题引发的不确定性，以及成年伴侣亲密关系的性质。该实验室将在本科生和研究生的研究和教学中发挥不可或缺的作用。

With National Science Foundation support Dr. Leonie Huddy and his colleagues will establish a central multi-purpose experimental survey research laboratory that will serve as both a telephone survey laboratory and an experimental attitude research lab. The survey facility will allow access to random samples of adults interviewed using up-to-date technology that includes voice recording and analysis capabilities, software that builds randomized experiments into the survey, and response time measures. Voice recording capabilities will allow analysis of a respondent's linguistic and paralinguistic cues such as filled pauses and rising intonation that convey information about uncertainty. The laboratory will contain state-of-the-art software and hardware for collecting survey data over the phone and directly in the laboratory. Computers will be equipped with standard Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing software, response latency capabilities, voice recording and analysis equipment and programmable software that will allow for inclusion of subliminal primes that are essential to the measurement of automatic attitudes. The lab will contain twelve individual workstations equipped with head sets and separated by office panels. Each workstation will operate from a central server. Of the four projects which will provide the core for a first set of initiatives, two are directed by political scientists and concern the theory and measurement of political attitudes. One will focus on the predictive validity of various racial attitudes and touch on a set of central theoretical questions about the covert nature of "true" racial attitudes in contemporary US society. A second examines the notion than many, if not most, political attitudes are founded on ambivalence, an idea which poses serious challenge to contemporary theories of public opinion and attitude stability. Other projects address the uncertainty that is elicited by many factual survey questions, and on the nature of close relationships in adult pairs. The laboratory will play an integral role in both undergraduate and graduate research and teaching.