Cognitive Research on Response Error in Survey Questions on Smoking.

摘要

The report describes three studies investigating the accuracy of subjects' self-report about cigarette smoking. The first study examined the way in which smokers answer questions about the number of cigarettes they smoke. The second study addressed the issue of social desirability effects by manipulating the context in which subjects were asked whether they smoked, and if so, how much. In the third study, participants from a 1981-82 study of people who completed a stop-smoking program were interviewed concerning their smoking histories.