Can a short survey instrument reliably measure a range of fundamental economic preferences across diverse settings? We … focus on survey questions that systematically predict behavior in incentivized experimental tasks among German university … quantitative survey measures - hypothetical versions of experimental tasks - of time preference, attitude to risk and altruism are …

survey data is limited by measurement error and by the questionability of their behavioral relevance. Here we present a … interaction among the participants, with a survey of noninteracting respondents in a smooth and inexpensive way. We illustrate the … power of our approach with the analysis of trust and trustworthiness in Germany by combining representative survey data with …

. In this paper, we explore the questions of what exactly is measured by the diverse survey-derived scales and experiments …. Inspired by criticism of the widespread trust question used in many surveys, we created a new, improved survey trust scale … that it correlates with trusting behaviour in the experiment. Both survey and experimental measure correlate with related …

survey designs in conflict-affected areas. We review existing conflict- and violence-related questionnaires, with a special …

sciences. Our analyses are based on a survey of almost 300 researchers that use data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study …