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This chapter introduces a new method for understanding the expressive value of answering survey questions. Drawing on data from a survey-embedded experiment that allowed participants to choose to answer additional questions, the authors generate several novel findings. Most survey respondents derive expressive benefits from answering survey questions; expressive benefits are greatest for questions about matters that are easily connected to partisan politics; and expressive responding appears to be driven more by internal factors than by a desire to be “heard” by others. The anticipation of partisan political content in a survey introduces a sorting effect: Respondents who choose to answer questions about politicized rumors are also more partisan in their responses than those who choose not to answer such questions. The results have implications for research designs that aim to alter the expressive context of surveys, such as paying for correct answers, list experiments, recruiting materials that advertise a survey’s content, and designs that use the threat of a longer survey to vary the cost of selecting different response options. |
