Research Methods: Biases in Research - Habituation

Have you ever noticed when answering a series of questions, all relating to the same topic, that your answers correlate? Actually, they should as usually you are asked about different aspects of the same latent constructs. Yet, sometimes we tend to set the mark without a specific intent - you just mark everything slightly to the right side (or to the left one). We do not go too deep into the aspects and answer with some degree of automaticity. 

Not sure? Just our one reversely coded item and you will notice that even reversely coded it does not show a full negative correlation. At least in my experience, it is the case. More on the issue in this episode. Enjoy!

 

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Eugene (Yevgen)