Roger Tourangeau
Funded Research:
Collaborative Research: On Latent Class Models of Measurement Error (NSF)
Development of Science and Technology Items for the 2008 General Social Survey (NSF)
DHMH Tobacco Program Evaluation (State of Maryland)
Improving the Design of Health Surveys on the Web (NICHD)
National Science Foundations' Public Attitudes Survey (GSA)
The Effects of Survey Presentation on Nonignorable Nonresponse and Measurement Error (NSF)
Visual and Interactive Issues in the Design of Web Surveys (NICHD)
Research Professor, Survey Research Center, University of Michigan.
Director, Joint Program in Survey Methodology, University of Maryland.
Ph.D., Yale University
Dr. Tourangeau is the lead author of The Psychology of Survey Response, a classic reference that examines the processes through which survey respondents answer questions. In recent work, he studies the use of audio and visual presentation of survey questions and the capability of interaction with the respondent, methods especially useful in the collection of sensitive information.
Recent Publications
Books
Tourangeau, Roger. 2003. Recurring surveys : issues and opportunities. Washington, D.C. : National Science Foundation.
Journal Articles
Couper, Mick P., Roger Tourangeau, and Theresa Marvin. 2009. "Taking the Audio Out of Audio-CASI." Public Opinion Quarterly, 73(2): 281-303. DOI:10.1093/poq/nfp025. Licensed Access.
Tourangeau, Roger, and Cong Ye. 2009. "The Framing of the Survey Request and Panel Attrition." Public Opinion Quarterly, 73(2): 338-348. DOI:10.1093/poq/nfp021. Licensed Access.
Yan, T., and Tourangeau, Roger. 2008. "Fast times and easy questions: The effects of age, experience and question complexity on web survey response times." Applied Cognitive Psychology, 22(1): 51-68. DOI:10.1002/acp.1331. Licensed Access.
Galesic, M., Tourangeau, Roger, Mick P. Couper, and Frederick G. Conrad. 2008. "Eye-Tracking Data: New Insights on Response Order Effects and Other Cognitive Shortcuts in Survey Responding." Public Opinion Quarterly, 72(5): 892-913. DOI:10.1093/poq/nfn059. Licensed Access. Worldcat.
Kreuter, F., Presser, S., and Roger Tourangeau. 2008. "Social Desirability Bias in CATI, IVR, and Web Surveys: The Effects of Mode and Question Sensitivity." Public Opinion Quarterly, 72(5): 847-865. DOI:10.1093/poq/nfn063. Licensed Access. Worldcat.
Kreuter, F., Yan, T., and Roger Tourangeau. 2008. "Good item or bad-can latent class analysis tell? the utility of latent class analysis for the evaluation of survey questions." Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series a-Statistics in Society, 171:723-738. DOI:10.1111/j.1467-985X.2007.00530.x. Licensed Access.
Galesic, M., and Roger Tourangeau. 2007. "What is sexual harassment? It depends on who asks! Framing effects on survey responses." Applied Cognitive Psychology, 21:189-202. DOI:10.1002/acp.1336. Licensed Access.
Tourangeau, Roger, Mick P. Couper, and Frederick G. Conrad. 2007. "Color, labels, and interpretive heuristics for response scales." Public Opinion Quarterly, 71:91-112. DOI:10.1093/poq/nfl046. Licensed Access.
Holbrook, A.L., J.A. Krosnick, D. Moore, and Roger Tourangeau. 2007. "Response order effects in dichotomous categorical questions presented orally - The impact of question and respondent attributes." Public Opinion Quarterly, 71(3): 325-348. DOI:10.1093/poq/nfm024. Licensed Access. Worldcat.
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