SGER: Effects of Terrorism on Judgments and Decisions Concerning Civil Liberties

该提案研究了作为对2001年9月11日恐怖袭击的回应而宣布的正在进行的“反恐战争”的后果而产生的意见和判断的变化。预计，军事和外交的成败以及恐怖事件的再次发生，将对安全与自由的关系产生影响。这项研究将在实验室进行，通过全国电话投票，并通过互联网使用几种新的WWW方法进行研究。这项研究的主要目标是研究有偏见的短语如何影响对民意调查中提出的问题的判断一致的模型。人们早就知道，民意调查的结果很大程度上取决于问题的措辞。这项研究将试图将偏见的影响与那些更稳定的“真实”心理价值区分开来。第二个目标是将廉价、高效的新Internet方法获得的结果与更标准的轮询获得的结果进行比较。该项目还将尝试确定几种互联网抽样方法中哪一种与更标准的民意调查结果相匹配最准确。

This proposal studies changes in opinion and judgment that follow as consequences of the ongoing "War on Terrorism," declared in response to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. It is anticipated that military and diplomatic success and failure and renewed terrorist events will influence opinions regarding security versus liberty. The research will be done in the lab, by national telephone polling, and via the Internet using several of the new WWW methods for conducting research.The primary goal of the research is to study models of how biasing phrases affect judged agreement with questions posed in polls. It has long been known that the results of polls depend strongly on how questions are worded. This research will attempt to separate the effects of bias from those of more stable "true" psychological values.A secondary goal is to compare results obtained with inexpensive, efficient, new Internet methods to those obtained from more standard polling. This project will also attempt to determine which of several Internet methods of sampling is most accurate in matching the results of more standard polling.