Call for Papers Session: Validity of Vignette-Designs Organizer: Stefanie Eifler & Lena Verneuer

Dear Colleagues, we would likte to draw your attention to the call for papers for our session 'Validity of Vignette-Designs' at the 7th Conference of the European Survey Research Association in Lissabon next July.

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Although Vignette-Designs are very common in social science, the question, what their empirical outcome really is, remains and has led to many (opposing) findings concerning validity aspects. Designed to measure behavioral intentions with the help of hypothetical situations, it is still not clear how these intentional measurements of the vignettes correspond with and to what extend they can serve as determinants for actual behavior.

To anticipate this issue, different approaches have been made: In order to validate the vignettes externally, cross-validation strategies such as comparisons of field- and/or laboratory-experiments with written situations have been set up. Furthermore, different studies deal with the content validity of vignettes and draw upon questions of how detailed vignettes should be or how prone they are to evoke social desirable answers.

In our session we want to draw attention to this ongoing debate and pool recent findings of projects that try to enrich the discussion. As there are many different ways of applicating vignettes, we do not focus on special designs and welcome all contributions dealing with different analytical strategies or empirical designs to disentangle the questions of validity. Against this background, papers matching one of the following aspects are cordially invited to be part of this session:

• theoretical ideas for modeling the relationship between intentions and behavior for further empirical analyses • comparison and discussion of different Vignette-Designs concerning validity aspects • cross-validation strategies (new approaches, replications) • new developments in measuring intentions with Vignettes • issues of data-collection (how to measure behavior and intentions) • discussion of (dis-)advantages of Vignette-Designs, validation strategies and/or measurements

*********************************************************** To submit an abstract, please visit the conference website at http://www.europeansurveyresearch.org/conference, sign up/log in and follow the instructions. You can select this session from the list of sessions provided in the submission form. [Proposals must be submitted online by 4th December 2016.]

If you have any question, please feel free to contact us:

Stefanie Eifler: stefanie.eifler@ku.de Lena Verneuer: lena.verneuer@uni-bielefeld.de