PND35 Fictitious Preferences or Felicitous Recoding? Conjoint Respondents Who Make Sense of Nonsensical Questions

Kleptomania: making sense of the nonsensical.

OBJECTIVE Kleptomania, or the irresistible impulse to steal unneeded objects, is a poorly understood disorder. The objectives of this paper are to critically review and integrate existing data and to make suggestions for further research. DATA COLLECTION Information was gathered by reviewing the English-language literature on kleptomania. Cases were chosen for review that approximated the dia...

“ Who are these people ? ” Evaluating the demographic characteristics and political preferences of MTurk survey respondents

As Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (MTurk) has surged in popularity throughout political science, scholars have increasingly challenged the external validity of inferences made drawing upon MTurk samples. At workshops and conferences experimental and survey-based researchers hear questions about the demographic characteristics, political preferences, occupation, and geographic location of MTurk respon...

When do changes in consumer preferences make forecasts from choice-based conjoint models unreliable?

Adaptive Conjoint Analysis of Professionals’ Job Preferences

Job preferences are a well-developed research field. Many studies analyze the preferences using simple ratings with a sample of university graduates. The current study analyzes the preferences with a mixed method approach of a qualitative preliminary study and adaptive conjoint-analysis. Preconditions of accepting job offers are clarified for professionals in the industrial sector. It could be ...

Spike times make sense.

Many behavioral responses are completed too quickly for the underlying sensory processes to rely on estimation of neural firing rates over extended time windows. Theoretically, first-spike times could underlie such rapid responses, but direct evidence has been lacking. Such evidence has now been uncovered in the human somatosensory system. We discuss these findings and their potential generaliz...