Does Attention Checks Increase Respondent Attention and Response Quality in Self-Administered Surveys?

• In Event: Experiments and Attentiveness in Surveys

Brief Overview

By randomizing respondents to conditions with and without attention checks in a nationally representative survey, we examine whether exposure to attention checks induces changes in respondent attention and response quality in subsequent questions.

Authors

• Michael Alvarez, Caltech

• Yimeng Li, Florida State University