Autobiographical memory and the validity of retrospective reports

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Contents: Norbert Schwarz, Seymour Sudman: Introduction and overview (1-8); Part I. Perspectives on retrospective reports – William F. Brewer: Autobiographical memory and survey research (11-20); Douglas J. Herrmann: The validity of retrospective reports as a function of the directness of retrieval processes (21-38); Kurt W. Back: Accuracy, truth, and meaning in autobiographical reports (39-54); Michael Ross, Roger Buehler: On authenticating and using personal recollections (55-70); Mahzarin R. Banaji, Curtis: Affect and memory in retrospective reports (71-86). Part II. Retrospective reports of behaviors - Peter Salovey, William J. Sieber, Jared B. Jobe, Gordon B. Willis: The recall of physical pain (89-106); Barbara Means, Gary E. Swan, Jared B. Jobe, James L. Esposito: The effects of estimation strategies on the accuracy of respondents' reports of cigarette smoking (107-120); Albert F. Smith, Jared B. Jobe: Validity of reports of long-term dietary memories: data and a model (121-140); Nora Cate Schaeffer: Errors of experience: response errors in reports about child support and their implications for questionnaire design (141-160); Geeta Menon: Judgments of behavorial frequencies: memory search and retrieval strategies (161-172); Edward Blair, Kathleen Williamson: On providing population data to improve respondents' estimates of autobiographical frequencies (173-186); Norbert Schwarz, Hans-J. Hippler, Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann: Retrospective reports: the impact of response formats (187-199). Part III. Event dating and time estimation - Norman M. Bradburn, Janellen Huttenlocher, Larry Hedges: Telescoping and temporal memory (203-216); John J. Skowronski, Andrew L. Betz, Charles P. Thompson, W. Richard Walker, Laura Shannon: The impact of differing memory domains on event-dating processes in self and proxy reports (217-231). Part IV. Comparisons of self and proxy reports - David J. Mingay, Steven K. Shevell, Norman M. Bradburn, Carl Ramirez: Self and proxy reports of everyday events (235-250); Seymour Sudman, Barbara Bickart, Johnny Blair, Geeta: The effect of participation level on reports of behavior and attitudes by proxy reporters (251-266); Diane Holmberg, John G. Holmes: Reconstruction of relationship memories: a mental models approach (267-289). Part V. Memories of the past and judgment of personal and social change - Leslie F. Clark, James E. Collins II, Susan M. Henry: Biasing effects of retrospective reports on current self-assessments (291-304); Karl-Heinz Reuband: Reconstructing social change through retrospective questions: methodological problems and prospects (305-312); Howard Schuman, Cheryl Rieger, Vladas Gaidys: Collective memories in the United States and Lithuania (313-333).

Object Details

• Alternative title: Autobiographisches Gedächtnis und die Validität retrospektiver Berichte
• ISBN: 3-540-94167-3
• Extent: Seite(n): XVIII,360
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet

Classification and Topics

• Subject: Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie ; Geschichte ; Psychologie ; Forschungsarten der Sozialforschung ; Allgemeine Psychologie ; Sozialgeschichte, historische Sozialforschung ; Validität ; Erfahrung ; Beurteilung ; Erinnerung ; Biographie ; biographische Methode ; Fehler ; Fragebogen ; Fremdeinschätzung ; Verhalten ; Antwortverhalten ; Selbstdarstellung ; Befragung ; Kognition ; Sucht ; sozialer Wandel ; Rauchen ; Gedächtnis ; Diäten ; Umfrageforschung ; Erhebungsmethode ; Einstellung ; empirisch ; Grundlagenforschung ; empirisch-qualitativ ; Dokumentation

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Herstellung
• (who): Schwarz, Norbert ; Sudman, Seymour
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Springer
• (where): Deutschland, Berlin et al.
• (when): 1993

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/64018
• Last update: 21.06.2024, 4:27 PM CEST