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58
Citations
27246
World Ranking
3775
National Ranking
2112

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2002 - Helen Dinerman Prize, World Association of Public Opinion Research
  • 1999 - Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA)

Overview

Roger Tourangeau is affiliated with Westat in the United States and has contributed to the fields of Social Sciences with a focus on subfields such as Sociology and Political Science, Statistics and Probability, Gender Studies, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and General Health Professions.

The main topics of their research work include:

  • Survey Methodology and Nonresponse
  • Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences
  • Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
  • Survey Sampling and Estimation Techniques
  • Reproductive Health and Contraception
  • Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
  • Reliability and Agreement in Measurement

Roger Tourangeau has published several papers, with notable recent works including:

  • "Survey Reliability: Models, Methods, and Findings" (2020) published in Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology
  • "Comparing Methods for Assessing Reliability" (2020) published in Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology

Frequent coauthors in their work include Ting Yan and Hanyu Sun.

Their publications have appeared in venues such as:

  • Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology
  • PLoS ONE

Roger Tourangeau has received recognition including the Helen Dinerman Prize from the World Association of Public Opinion Research in 2002 and was named a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1999.

Best Publications

  • The Psychology of Survey Response

    Roger Tourangeau;Lance J. Rips;Kenneth A. Rasinski

  • Sensitive questions in surveys.

    Roger Tourangeau;Ting Yan

  • ASKING SENSITIVE QUESTIONS THE IMPACT OF DATA COLLECTION MODE, QUESTION FORMAT, AND QUESTION CONTEXT

    Roger Tourangeau;Tom W. Smith

  • Cognitive Processes Underlying Context Effects in Attitude Measurement

    Roger Tourangeau;Kenneth A. Rasinski

  • Social Desirability Bias in CATI, IVR, and Web Surveys The Effects of Mode and Question Sensitivity

    Frauke Kreuter;Stanley Presser;Roger Tourangeau

  • An Experimental Comparison of Web and Telephone Surveys

    Scott Fricker;Mirta Galesic;Roger Tourangeau;Ting Yan

  • Survey research and societal change.

    Roger Tourangeau

  • Spacing, Position, and Order Interpretive Heuristics for Visual Features of Survey Questions

    Roger Tourangeau;Mick P. Couper;Frederick Conrad

  • Understanding and appreciating metaphors

    Roger Tourangeau;Robert J. Sternberg

  • Cognitive Aspects of Survey Methodology: Building a Bridge Between Disciplines.

    Wesley L. Schaible;Thomas B. Jabine;Miron L. Straf;Judith M. Tanur

  • Aptness in metaphor

    Roger Tourangeau;Robert J. Sternberg

  • Fast times and easy questions: the effects of age, experience and question complexity on web survey response times

    Ting Yan;Ting Yan;Roger Tourangeau;Roger Tourangeau

  • Remembering What Happened: Memory Errors and Survey Reports

    Roger Tourangeau

  • The role of facial response in the experience of emotion.

    Roger Tourangeau;Phoebe C. Ellsworth

  • Evaluating the Effectiveness of Visual Analog Scales

    Mick P. Couper;Roger Tourangeau;Frederick G. Conrad;Eleanor Singer

  • Experiments in Producing Nonresponse Bias

    Robert M. Groves;Mick P. Couper;Stanley Presser;Eleanor Singer

  • CARRYOVER EFFECTS IN ATTITUDE SURVEYS

    Roger Tourangeau;Kenneth A. Rasinski;Norman Bradburn;Roy D'andrade

  • Eye-Tracking Data New Insights on Response Order Effects and Other Cognitive Shortcuts in Survey Responding

    Mirta Galesic;Roger Tourangeau;Roger Tourangeau;Mick P. Couper;Frederick G. Conrad

  • What they see is what we get: response options for web surveys

    Mick P. Couper;Roger Tourangeau;Frederick G. Conrad;Scott D. Crawford

  • Color, Labels, and Interpretive Heuristics for Response Scales

    Roger Tourangeau;Mick P. Couper;Frederick Conrad

Frequent Co-Authors

Frederick G. Conrad
Frederick G. Conrad University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Lance J. Rips
Lance J. Rips Northwestern University
Jon A. Krosnick
Jon A. Krosnick Stanford University
Robert J. Sternberg
Robert J. Sternberg Cornell University
Phoebe C. Ellsworth
Phoebe C. Ellsworth University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Norbert Schwarz
Norbert Schwarz University of Southern California
Catherine P. Bradshaw
Catherine P. Bradshaw University of Virginia
Nancy G. Guerra
Nancy G. Guerra University of California, Irvine

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