What Would You Do? Conducting Web-Based Factorial Vignette Surveys

Aviram, Hadar

doi:10.1007/978-1-4614-3876-2_26

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“…Hence, the scenarios are hierarchically nested within respondents and may lead to correlated errors because of the idiosyncrasies of the respondent (Aviram, 2012). To test this, the intraclass correlation was used to gauge data dependency.…”

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“…Such a technique allows for the benefits of a survey to be combined with the advantages of an experimental design (Rossi & Anderson, 1982). The subtle variations of the scenarios allow for the testing of the impact of a series of independent variables simultaneously and the control of personal characteristics of respondents on each respondent's overall appraisal (Aviram, 2012).…”

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Public Approval of Plea Bargaining in Hong Kong

Cheng

2015

International Criminal Justice Review

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Despite the prevalence of plea bargaining, few studies have endeavored to measure public support of it. The few that did neglected offender characteristics even when it is a core consideration stipulated by prosecution policy in plea bargaining decision making. This study argues that public approval toward plea bargaining is not binary but rather multifaceted and is dependent upon a variety of factors including the parties involved, the type of plea bargain reached, and the characteristics of the defendant. Telephone interviews were conducted with respondents selected randomly from Hong Kong (N ¼ 374) who responded to a series of hypothetical plea bargaining scenarios. Public approval was higher when there was judicial presence and when offenders were elderly, had a clean criminal record, and displayed remorse. It was lower for fact bargaining and offenders from high-income families. Policy implications and reform are discussed.

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Public Approval of Plea Bargaining in Hong Kong

Cheng

2015

International Criminal Justice Review

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“…The stimulus was a written hypothetical scenario, introducing a new (fictitious) social media platform called WorldConnect.com. To increase the validity of hypothetical scenarios, vignettes should be as realistic as possible so that participants are able to connect to and envision the situation (Aviram, 2012). To achieve this, participants were given very detailed scenarios of a platform which resembled basic features of the currently popular platform To identify controversial issues which are perceived as enduring versus emerging by social media users, a pilot study (N = 76; 42 females; age: M = 29.11, SD = 7.99; 96.1% had at least a high school diploma) was conducted.…”

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“…Second, this study made use of hypothetical scenarios in which a new, fictitious, social networking platform was presented. This approach enabled to systematically vary two levels of persistence, describing a realistic everyday situation and exerting full experimental control over the technological context at the same time (Aviram, 2012). Still, participants had to state how they would react to such a situation.…”

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"It’s Going to be Out There For a Long Time": The Influence of Message Persistence on Users’ Political Opinion Expression in Social Media

Neubaum¹

2020

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In light of the growing politicization of social media, the spiral of silence theory and its predictions on the conditions under which individuals express political opinions have gained increasing scholarly attention. This study contributes to this line of research by identifying the influence of a central characteristic of social media: message persistence. It was expected that high technical durability of political messages reduces users’ propensity to voice their opinion, moderating the silence effect. A pre-registered experiment (N = 772) revealed a small-to-medium persistence effect in three out of four topical contexts. While perceived congruence with the opinion climate was not associated with the likelihood of opinion expression, the latter could be explained by a mental cost-benefit calculus that was shaped by message persistence. Theoretical implications are discussed referring to (a) a situational approach regarding silencing processes on social media and (b) its connection to a behavioral calculus of human communication.

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“…The study by Hughes et al [this issue] takes a novel approach to understanding the effects of particular law enforcement tactics -including the use of drug detection dogs -to deter drug offences at festivals. Using a survey to ask questions on 'experimental vignettes' (Aviram, 2012), they find that these tactics may reduce the overall level of drug offending by festival goers. But these tactics may, as other law enforcement tactics do (Stevens, 2013), increase other potential harms.…”

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