Public Opinion Quarterly

Editorial Note
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Author: PRICE, VINCENT

Clarifying Question Meaning in a Household Telephone Survey*FREDERICK G. CONRAD is senior research psychologist at the Bureau of Labor Statistics. MICHAEL F. SCHOBER is an associate professor in the Department of Psychology at the New School for Social Research. We thank David Cantor, Kimberly Clark, Cathy Dippo, Jim Esposito, Susan Heltemis, Sarah Jerstad, Linda Stinson, and Clyde Tucker for help in various aspects of the project, and Susan Brennan, Brian Harris-Kojetin, Vincent Price, and the anonymous reviewers for comments on earlier drafts of this article. This project is based on work supported by NSF grant SBR-97-30140, by an ASA/NSF/BLS Senior Research Fellowship to Michael Schober, and by additional funding from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Some of these results were presented at the fifty-second annual meeting of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, Norfolk, VA (May 1997). The views expressed here reflect the opinions of the authors and not those of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Address correspondence to Frederick G. Conrad, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Room 4915, 2 Massachusetts Ave., NE, Washington, DC 20212, conrad_f@bls.gov or to Michael F. Schober, Department of Psychology AL-340, New School for Social Research, 65 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10003, schober@newschool.edu.
pp. 1-28(28)
Authors: CONRAD, FREDERICK G.; SCHOBER, MICHAEL F.

Rocking the Vote: Using Personalized Messages to Motivate Voting among Young Adults*DIANA BURGESS is at General Mills, Minneapolis, MN. BETH HANEY is at the Minnesota Department of Human Services. MARK SNYDER is in the Department of Psychology at the University of Minnesota. JOHN L. SULLIVAN and JOHN E. TRANSUE are in the Department of Political Science at the University of Minnesota. This research was supported in part by a grant from Rock the Vote, and we would like to thank this organization for their cooperation in conducting this research. In addition, we would like to thank Wendy Rahn, Melissa Sullivan, Brandon Sullivan, Sara Buckner, Don Gramenz, Marwa Ibrahim, Amos Magee, Syana Mukadam, and Kirsten Transue for their assistance in conducting the study. We would also like to thank Eric Lawrence for methodological advice. Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Mark Snyder, Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455; e-mail: msnyder@umn.edu. The ordering of authors is alphabetical.
pp. 29-52(24)
Authors: BURGESS, DIANA; HANEY, BETH; SNYDER, MARK; SULLIVAN, JOHN L.; TRANSUE, JOHN E.

Poverty as We Know It: Media Portrayals of the Poor*We would like to thank the Purdue University MARC/AIM Summer Research Program for providing summer support for Rakuya Trice, the Purdue Research Foundation for providing a Summer Faculty Grant for Rosalee Clawson, and the Purdue University Library Scholars Grant Program. We greatly appreciate the efforts of Jill Clawson and Chris Salisbury, who were instrumental in obtaining information from the Census Bureau web site. We would also like to thank the editor and anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments.
pp. 53-64(12)
Authors: CLAWSON, ROSALEE A.; TRICE, RAKUYA

Context Effects in National Health Surveys: Effects of Preceding Questions on Reporting Serious Difficulty Seeing and Legal Blindness*I thank John Bargh, Niall Bolger, Gerry Hendershot, Corinne Kirchner, Emilie Schmeidler, Michael Schober, Norbert Schwarz, and Fritz Strack for their comments on previous drafts of this article. Correspondence may be addressed to Alexander Todorov, Department of Psychology, New York University, 6 Washington Place, Seventh Floor, New York, NY 10003. E-mail: alext@psych.nyu.edu.
pp. 65-76(12)
Author: TODOROV, ALEXANDER

Telescoping of Landmark Events: Implications for Survey Research*This research was supported by a grant from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). The survey research was conducted by the Office of Population and Censuses and Surveys and designed in collaboration with Kavita Deepchand and Roger Thomas of the Joint Centre for Survey Methodology. Address correspondence to George Gaskell, The Methodology Institute, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London, WC2A 2AE, UK; e-mail: g.gaskell@lse.ac.uk.
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Authors: GASKELL, GEORGE D.; WRIGHT, DANIEL B.; O'MUIRCHEARTAIGH, COLM A.

Trends: Terrorism in the United States*LYNN KUZMA is an assistant professor at the University of Southern Maine. The survey data reported in this study were assembled from data found in the archives of the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research's on-line Public Opinion Location Library (POLL). Further information about these data can be obtained from the Roper Center or the individual survey organizations. Thanks to Douglas Foyle and Larry Schwartz for help in accessing the POLL data and to George Youngs and Robert Shapiro for comments on earlier drafts of this work.
pp. 90-105(16)
Author: KUZMA, LYNN M.

Comment
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Author: SINGER, ELEANOR

Reply to Singer
pp. 108-109(2)
Authors: BOLCE, LOUIS; DE MAIO, GERALD

Daniel T. Rogers, Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age; Robert C. Lieberman, Shifting the Color Line: Race and the American Welfare State
pp. 110-113(4)
Author: MARMOR, TED

Julia A. Ericksen with Sally A. Steffen, Kiss and Tell: Survey Sex in the Twentieth Century
pp. 113-115(3)
Author: SMITH, TOM W.

Roy Rosenzweig and David Thelen, The Presence of the Past: Popular Uses of History in American Life
pp. 115-117(3)
Author: SCHUMAN, HOWARD

Sharon M. Friedman, Sharon Dunwoody, and Carol L. Rogers, eds., Communicating Uncertainty: Media Coverage of New and Controversial Science
pp. 117-119(3)
Author: SINGER, ELEANOR

Gene Sosin, Sparks of Liberty: An Insider's Memoir of Radio Liberty
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Author: BOGART, LEO

Manuscript Referees, 1998–1999
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