Detroit Area Study, 1977: Attitude-Behavior Consistency and Attribution of Responsibility (ICPSR 8189)

Version Date: Feb 16, 1992

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Principal Investigator(s):
H. Schuman; M. Manis; V. Lee Hamilton; J. Sanders; Robert M. Groves

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https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08189.v1

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Summary

The Detroit Area Study is an ongoing series of surveys conducted by the Department of Sociology at the University of Michigan. These surveys serve two purposes: to provide useful survey information about various population characteristics and social issues selected as topics by principal investigators, and to provide actual survey research experience for graduate students. This study explores two topics related to social psychology. Attitude-behavior consistency was measured by asking respondents about their television viewing and their attitudes toward television violence. Follow-up interviews were conducted by telephone to ascertain respondents' actual television viewing. In addition, some respondents were asked to sign a petition regarding violence on television. The study of attribution was conducted by reading respondents a series of vignettes and then asking several questions regarding the characters' responsibility for their actions.

Citation

Schuman, H., Manis, M., Hamilton, V. Lee, Sanders, J., and Groves, Robert M. Detroit Area Study, 1977:  Attitude-Behavior Consistency and Attribution of Responsibility. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1992-02-16. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08189.v1

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Geographic Coverage

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Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
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Time Period(s)

1977

Date of Collection

1977
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Data Source

personal interviews

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Original Release Date

1984-07-12

Version History

2018-02-15 The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented. The previous citation was:
  • Schuman, H., M. Manis, V. Lee Hamilton, J. Sanders, and Robert M. Groves. Detroit Area Study, 1977: Attitude-Behavior Consistency and Attribution of Responsibility. ICPSR08189-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1984. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08189.v1

1984-07-12 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

  • Standardized missing values.
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