Social Information Processing and Survey Methodology.

1. Editors' Introduction.- 2. Social Cognition and Social Reality: Information Acquisition and Use in the Laboratory and the Real World.- 3. Information Processing Theory for the Survey Researcher.- 4. Bipolar Survey items: An Information Processing Perspective.- 5. AnswerIng Survey Questions: The RoIe of Memory.- 6. Response Effects in Surveys.- 7. Thinking, Judging, and Communicating: A Process Account of Context Effects in Attitude Surveys.- 8. Attitude Measurement: A Cognitive Perspective.- 9. What Response Scales May Tell your Respondents: Informative Functions of Response Alternatives.- 10. Context Effects on SeIf-Perceptions of Interest in Government and Publie Affairs.- 11. Styles of Interviewing and the Social Context of the Survey-interview.- 12. Perspectives for Future Development.- 13. About the Authors.