Unten stehend finden Sie den"Call for Papers" für eine Konferenzsession zum Thema "Soziale Erwünschtheit und nicht-reaktive Methoden in der Survey Forschung", welche wir im kommenden Jahr im Rahmen der ESRA 2015, die an der University of Iceland, Reykjavik vom 13. bis 17. July 2015 stattfindet, organisieren. Bis zum 15. Januar können Beiträge eingereicht werden: http://www.europeansurveyresearch.org/conference Wir freuen uns über Einreichungen! Mit besten Grüßen, Ivar Krumpal, Roger Berger und Mark Trappmann ****************************************************************************************************************************** Social Desirability and Non-Reactive Methods in Survey Research Social desirability bias is a problem in surveys collecting data on private or norm-violating issues (e.g. sexual behavior, health related issues, voting preferences, income, or unsocial opinions) as soon as the respondent’s true score differs from his or her perception of the social desirable score. Due to the respondents’ strive for social approval and keeping a favourable self-image as well as data protection concerns, collecting valid data on private or norm-violating issues is a challenging task. More specifically, respondents may engage in impression management or self-deception or edit their answer before reporting it. Non-reactive data collection methods could improve measurements and data quality in surveys where social desirability bias is a potential problem. Therefore, the possibilities and limits of non-reactive methods (e.g. record linkage approaches, surveys without questions, biomarkers, field experiments or administrative data usage) will be critically discussed and compared to methods which are based on self-reports. This session has four main goals: (1) discussion of the theoretical foundation of the research on social desirability bias in the context of a general theory of human psychology and social behavior. A clearer understanding of the social interactions between the actors that are involved in the data collection process could provide empirical researchers with a substantiated basis for optimizing their survey design and data collection to achieve high quality data; (2) presentation of current empirical research focusing on non-reactive methods of data collection in connection with the problem of social desirability; (3) discussion of new designs combining or contrasting non-reactive methods with standard ‘question-and-answer’ survey measurement in innovative ways; (4) exploration of possibilities of integrating such new and innovative approaches in well-established, large-scale population surveys taking into account problems of research ethics and data protection. Please submit an abstract via the ESRA website http://www.europeansurveyresearch.org/conferences/register by 15 January 2015. Decisions about acceptance will be communicated by the end of February 2015. Please forward this request for submissions to others who may be interested in this session. Do not hesitate to contact us if you have any queries about the session. Thank you. Best wishes, Ivar Krumpal, University of Leipzig, Germany http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~sozio/content/site/detail_m47_lehrveran.php Roger Berger, University of Leipzig, Germany http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~sozio/content/site/detail_m49_lehrveran.php Mark Trappmann, Institute for Employment Research, Germany http://www.iab.de/123/section.aspx/Mitarbeiter/511