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Political involvement and memory failure as interdependent determinants of vote overreporting

dc.contributor.authorStocké, Volkeren_US
dc.contributor.authorStark, Tobiasen_US
dc.date.accessioned2007-09-20T18:15:00Z
dc.date.available2008-04-03T18:50:42Zen_US
dc.date.issued2007-03en_US
dc.identifier.citationStockÉ, Volker; Stark, Tobias (2007). "Political involvement and memory failure as interdependent determinants of vote overreporting." Applied Cognitive Psychology 21(2): 239-257. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/55955>en_US
dc.identifier.issn0888-4080en_US
dc.identifier.issn1099-0720en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/55955
dc.description.abstractSurvey respondents have been found to systematically overreport their participation in political elections. Although the sociodemographic correlates of this response bias are well known, only a few studies have analysed the determinants predicted by two prominent theoretical explanations for vote overreporting: memory failure and social desirability (SD) bias. Both explanations have received empirical support in studies in which the probability of vote overreporting was found to increase (a) with the time between the election and the survey interview and (b) when respondents were politically involved to a larger extent. In the present paper, we argue that the effect of each of these determinants is not simply additive but depends on the value of the respective other factor. This interaction effect has been found with data from the American National Election Studies: The probability of vote overreporting increases significantly more strongly with the respondents' political involvement when more time has elapsed since the election day. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.en_US
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dc.publisherJohn Wiley & Sons, Ltd.en_US
dc.subject.otherPsychologyen_US
dc.titlePolitical involvement and memory failure as interdependent determinants of vote overreportingen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.rights.robotsIndexNoFollowen_US
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevelPsychologyen_US
dc.subject.hlbtoplevelSocial Sciencesen_US
dc.description.peerreviewedPeer Revieweden_US
dc.contributor.affiliationotherUniversity of Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany ; Project Program ‘Rationality Concepts, Decision Behavior and Economic Modeling’, University of Mannheim, D-68131 Mannheim, Germany.en_US
dc.contributor.affiliationotherUniversity of Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany ; University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlandsen_US
dc.description.bitstreamurlhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/55955/1/1339_ftp.pdfen_US
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1002/acp.1339en_US
dc.identifier.sourceApplied Cognitive Psychologyen_US
dc.owningcollnameInterdisciplinary and Peer-Reviewed


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