Context Effects in Social and Psychological Research

I. Introduction and Historical Overview.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Context Effects: State of the Past/State of the Art.- II. Question-Order Effects in Surveys.- 3 “Order Effects” in Survey Research: Activation and Information Functions of Preceding Questions.- 4 Context Effects on Responses to Attitude Questions: Attitudes as Memory Structures.- 5 Constructive Processes as a Source of Context Effects in Survey Research: Explorations in Self-Generated Validity.- 6 Question-Order Effects and Brand Evaluations: The Moderating Role of Consumer Knowledge.- 7 Basking and Brooding: The Motivating Effects of Filter Questions in Surveys.- 8 Serial Context Effects in Survey Interviews.- 9 Questionnaire Context as a Source of Response Differences in Mail and Telephone Surveys.- 10 Context Effects as Substantive Data in Social Surveys.- 11 Qualitative Analysis of Question-Order and Context Effects: The Use of Think-Aloud Responses.- 12 Thoughts on the Nature of Context Effects.- III. Response-Order Effects in Surveys.- 13 A Cognitive Model of Response-Order Effects in Survey Measurement.- 14 The Impact of Cognitive Sophistication and Attitude Importance on Response-Order and Question-Order Effects.- IV. Order Effects in Psychological Testing.- 15 Order Effects within Personality Measures.- 16 Context Influences on the Meaning of Work.- 17 The Psychometrics of Order Effects.- V. Social Judgment.- 18 Information-Processing Functions of Generic Knowledge Structures and Their Role in Context Effects in Social Judgment.- 19 Context Effects and the Communicative Functions of Quantifiers: Implications for Their Use in Attitude Research.- 20 Cognitive Representation of Bipolar Survey Items.- VI. Summary.- 21 What Have We Learned?.- References.