University of Wisconsin–Madison

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Development of a Personal Event Schema

Dykema, Jennifer, and Nora Cate Schaeffer Working paper no. 1999-27 Abstract A substantial proportion of the research conducted by social scientists involves measuring, describing, and analyzing phenomena that can be broadly classified as events or behaviors. In order to measure experience systematically and in a manner that permits generalization across individuals and to larger groups, …

Greeting and Response: Predicting Participation from the Call Opening

Schaeffer, Nora Cate, Bo Hee Min, Thomas Purnell, Dana Garbarski, and Jennifer DykemaWorking paper no. 2017-02 Abstract Although researchers have used phone surveys for decades, the lack of an accurate picture of the call opening reduces our ability to train interviewers to succeed. Sample members decide about participation quickly. We predict participation using the earliest …