Comparing the use of open and closed questions for Web-based measures of the continued-influence effect.

ABSTRACT: Open-ended questions, in which participants write or type their responses, are used in many areas of the behavioral sciences. Although effective in the lab, they are relatively untested in online experiments, and the quality of responses is largely unexplored. Closed-ended questions are easier to use online because they generally require only single key- or mouse-press responses and are less cognitively demanding, but they can bias the responses. We compared the data quality obtained using open and closed response formats using the continued-influence effect (CIE), in which participants read a series of statements about an unfolding event, one of which is unambiguously corrected later. Participants typically continue to refer to the corrected misinformation when making inferential statemen

SUBMITTER: Connor Desai S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6538818 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature