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Theoretical analysis reveals cognitive shortcuts in survey respondents, indicating that question cues systematically direct suboptimal response patterns.
A new theoretical perspective proposes that various survey response patterns occur partly because respondents shortcut the cognitive processes necessary for generating optimal answers and that these shortcuts are directed by cues in the questions.
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