Publications
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Journal Articles
Book Chapters
Journal Articles
- Mingnan Liu and Laura Wronski. (Accepted) “Trap Questions in Online Surveys.” International Journal of Market Research.
- Mingnan Liu and Laura Wronski. Onlinn first. “Examining Completion Rates in Web Surveys via Over 25,000 Real-World Surveys.” Social Science Computer Review. (PDF)
- Mingnan Liu and Alexandru Cernat. Online First. "Item-by-item Versus Matrix Questions: A Web Survey Experiment." Social Science Computer Review. (PDF)
- Mingnan Liu. 2017. “Labeling and Direction of Slider Questions — Results from Web Survey Experiments.” International Journal of Market Research, 59(5), 601-624. (PDF)
- Mingnan Liu. 2017. “Does name order still matter for candidates in a presidential primary poll in the US? Lack of response order effect in a web survey experiment” Survey Methods: Insights from the Field. (PDF)
- Sunghee Lee, Mingnan Liu, and Mengyao Hu. 2017. “Relationship between Future Time Orientation and Item Nonresponse on Subjective Probability Questions: A Cross-Cultural Analysis.” Journal of Cross-cultural Psychology: 48 (5), 698-717. (PDF)
- Mingnan Liu and Florian Keusch. 2017 “Effects of Ordinal Rating Scale Direction on Acquiescent and Extreme Response Style.” Journal of Official Statistics, 33(1): 137-154.(PDF)
- Mingnan Liu and Nick Inchausti. 2017. "Improving survey response rates: The effect of embedded questions in web survey email Invitations." 10(1). (PDF)
- Mingnan Liu. 2017. “Data Collection Mode Differences Between National Face-to-Face and Web Surveys on Gender Inequality and Discrimination Questions.” Women’s Studies International Forum, 60C: 11-16. (PDF)
- Mingnan Liu. 2017. “Web Survey Experiments on Matrix Questions.” Computers in Human Behavior, 67: 61-72. (PDF)
- Mingnan Liu and Florian Keusch. Accepted. "Effects of ordinal rating scale direction on acquiescent and extreme response style." Journal of Official Statistics.
- Mingnan Liu.2016. “Comparing Data quality between Online Panel and River Samples.” Methodological Innovation. (PDF)
- John Michael Carey, Brendan Nyhan, Benjamin Valentino, and Mingnan Liu. 2016. "An inflated view of the facts? How preferences and predispositions shape conspiracy beliefs about the deflategate scandal." Research and Politics. (PDF)
- Z. Tuba Suzer-Gurtekin, Mahmoud Elkasabi, Mingnan Liu, James M. Lepkowski, Richard Curtin, and Rebecca McBee. 2016. “Effect of a Pre-paid Incentive on Response Rates to an Address-Based Sampling (ABS) Web-Mail Survey.” Survey Practice: 29(3) (PDF).
- Mingnan Liu and Sarah Cho. 2016. "Web survey experiments on fully balanced, minimally balanced and unbalanced rating scales." Survey Methods: Insights from the Field. (PDF)
- Mingnan Liu. 2016. “The Effect of Perceived Interviewer Race on Survey Responses among a Sample of Asian American.” Asian American Journal of Psychology, 7(3): 167-175 (PDF).
- Mingnan Liu, Frederick G. Conrad and Sunghee Lee. 2016 "Comparing acquiescent and extreme response styles in face-to-face and web surveys." Quality & Quantity. (PDF)
- Mingnan Liu and Frederick G. Conrad. 2016. "An experiment testing six formats of 101-point rating scales." Computers in Human Behavior, 55: 364-371. DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2015.09.036 (PDF)
- Mingnan Liu, Noble Kuriakose, Jon Cohen and Sarah Cho. 2016. "Impact of Web Survey Invitation Design on Survey Participation, Respondents and Survey Responses." Social Science Computer Review, 34(5): 631-644. (PDF)
- Mingnan Liu and Yichen Wang. 2016. "Race-of-Interviewer Effect in the Computer-Assisted Self-Interview Module in a Face-To-Face Survey." International Journal of Public Opinion Research, 28(2): 292-305. (PDF)
- Mingnan Liu and Yichen Wang. 2016. "Interviewer Gender Effect on Acquiescent Response Style among 11 Asian Countries." Field Methods, 28(4): 327-344. (PDF)
- Mingnan Liu and Yichen Wang. 2016. “Comparison of Face-to-Face and Web Surveys on the Topic of homosexual Rights.” Journal of Homosexuality. 63(6): 838-854. (PDF)
- Mingnan Liu, Sunghee Lee, and Frederick Conrad. 2015. “Extreme Response Styles Between Agree-Disagree and Item Specific Scales.” Public Opinion Quarterly, 79(4), 952-975. (PDF)
- Mingnan Liu and Yichen Wang. 2015. "Data Collection Mode Effect on Feeling Thermometer Questions: A comparison of Face-to-face and Web Surveys." Computers in Human Behavior, 48, 212-218. (PDF)
- Mingnan Liu and Yichen Wang. 2014. “Comparing Face-to-Face and Web Surveys on Political Knowledge Questions.” Survey Methods: Insights from the Field. DOI: 10.13094/SMIF-2014-00009 (PDF)
- Mingnan Liu and Kevin Stainback. 2013. “Interviewer Gender Effects on Survey Responses to Marriage-Related Questions.” Public Opinion Quarterly, 77(2), pp.606-618. DOI: 10.1093/poq/nft019 (PDF)
- Mingnan Liu. 2009. “The Investigation of Second Language Learning Attitudes: A Study of Foreign Students in China.” Journal of Yunnan Normal University (Teaching and Research on Chinese as A Foreign Language Edition), 7(5), pp.43-48. [In Chinese] (PDF)
Book Chapters
- Mingnan Liu, Tuba Suzer-Gurtekin, Florian Keusch, and Sunghee Lee. (Accepted, to be published in 2017). “Response Styles in Cross-Cultural Surveys: A Tutorial on Estimation and Adjustment Methods and Empirical Applications.” In Advances in Comparative Survey Methodology, edited by Timothy Johnson, Beth-Ellen Pennell, Ineke Stoop, and Brita Dorer, Wiley.
- Sunghee Lee, Florian Keusch, Norbert Schwarz, Mingnan Liu, and Tuba Suzer-Gurtekin. (Accepted, to be published in 2017). “Cross-Cultural Comparability of Response Patterns of Expectation Questions: A Role of Cultural Orientations of Time Perspectives and Locus of Control.” In Advances in Comparative Survey Methodology, edited by Timothy Johnson, Beth-Ellen Pennell, Ineke Stoop, and Brita Dorer, Wiley.
- Z. Tuba Suzer-Gurtekina, Mahmoud Elkasabib, James M. Lepkowskia, Mingnan Liu, Richard Curtina, and Rebecca McBeea. (2017).“Randomized Experiments on Address-based Sampling Concurrent and Web-intensive Web-Mail Surveys in a general population Survey.” In Experimental Methods in Survey Research: Techniques that Combine Random Sampling with Random Assignment, edited by Paul J. Lavrakas, Edith de Leeuw, Allyson Holbrook, Courtney Kennedy, Michael W. Traugott, and Brady T. West, Wiley.
Conference Presentations
- Mingnan Liu and Laura Wronski. (May) Mobile web survey in the international setting. The 72th Annual Conference of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, New Orleans, Louisiana.
- Laura Wronski and Mingnan Liu. (May) Who Is Responding to Online Surveys—And When? The 72th Annual Conference of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, New Orleans, Louisiana.
- Rebecca Grady and Mingnan Liu. (May) What's the Best Size for Matrix-Style Questions in Online Surveys? The 72th Annual Conference of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, New Orleans, Louisiana.
- Vlad Achimescu, Florian Keusch and Mingnan Liu. (March) No pay, no gain. The relationship between monetary and non-monetary motivation to participate in web surveys and data quality in an international context. General Online Research, Berlin, Germany.
- Nick Inchausti and Mingnan Liu. (December 2016) Improving Survey Response Rates: The effect of Embedded questions in Web Survey Email Invitations. The 2016 Annual Pacific Chapter of American Association for Public Opinion Research, San Francisco, California.
- Laura Wronski and Mingnan Liu. (July 2016) Calibrating Cross-National Panel Surveys. The Second International Conference on Survey Methods in Multinational, Multiregional and Multicultural Contexts (3MC 2016), Chicago, Illinois.
- Mingnan Liu, Yichen Wang and James M. Lepkowski. (May 2016) Mode Effect on Racial Sensitive Questions between Web and Computer-assisted Self-interview. The 71th Annual Conference of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, Austin, Texas.
- Florian Keusch, Mingnan Liu and Ting Yan. (May 2016) The Impact of Scale Direction, Alignment and Length on Responses to Rating Scale Questions in a Web Survey. The 71th Annual Conference of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, Austin, Texas.
- Sarah Cho and Mingnan Liu. (May 2016) Web Survey Experiments on Fully Balanced, Minimally Balanced and Unbalanced Rating Scales. The 71th Annual Conference of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, Austin, Texas.
- Laura Wronski and Mingnan Liu. (May 2016) Trap Questions in Online Surveys. The 71th Annual Conference of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, Austin, Texas.
- Mingnan Liu, Sarah Cho and Jon Cohen. (May 2016) Impact of Name Order and Presentation Format on Support for Candidates in a Presidential Primary Poll. The 69th Annual Conference of the World Association for Public Opinion Research, Austin, Texas.
- Mingnan Liu. (March 2016) Comparing Data quality between Online Panel and River Samples. General Online Research, Dresden, Germany.
- Mingnan Liu, Sarah Cho and Noble Kuriakose. (December 2015) Comparisons of Fully Balanced, Minimally Balanced and Unbalanced Rating Scales. The 2015 Annual Pacific Chapter of American Association for Public Opinion Research, San Francisco, Calfornia.
- Mingnan Liu, Z. Tuba Suzer-Gurtekin, and Sunghee Lee. (September 2015) Estimating and Adjusting for Cross-Cultural Differences in Acquiescent and Extreme Response Styles. 2015 International Total Survey Error Conference, Baltimore, Maryland.
- Mingnan Liu, Frederick Conrad and Sunghee Lee (May 2015). Examining Acquiescent and Extreme Response Styles between Face-to-Face and Web Surveys. The 70th Annual Conference of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, Hollywood, Florida.
- Mingnan Liu, Noble Kuriakose, Jon Cohen and Sarah Cho (May 2015). Impact of Images on Survey Participation, Respondents, and Online Panel Recruitment. The 70th Annual Conference of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, Hollywood, Florida.
- Noble Kuriakose, Jon Cohen, Sarah Cho and Mingnan Liu (May 2015). Predictors of Completion Rates in Online Surveys. The 70th Annual Conference of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, Hollywood, Florida.
- Yichen Wang and Mingnan Liu (May 2015). Race-of-Interviewer Effect in the Computer-Assisted Self-Interview Module in a Face-To-Face Survey. The 70th Annual Conference of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, Hollywood, Florida.
- Viet Nguyen, Mingnan Liu, Colleen McClain, Nina Pourahmadi, Jenny Kelly (November 2014). Understanding First Contacts on Cell Phones: Interview Voice Characteristics, Perceived Interviewer. The 39th Annual Conference of Midwest Association for Public Opinion Research, Chicago, Illinois.
- Mingnan Liu, Sunghee Lee and Frederick Conrad (May 2014). The Effect of Acculturation on Extreme Response Style: A Mediation Analysis among a Sample of Arab American Adults. The 69th Annual Conference of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, Anaheim, California.
- Sunghee Lee, Mingnan Liu and Mengyao Hu. (May 2014). Differential Response Styles of Subjective Life Expectancy and Cultural Differences in Time Orientation. The 69th Annual Conference of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, Anaheim, California.
- Sunghee Lee, Mingnan Liu, Mengyao Hu and Colleen McClain. (May 2014). McClain, C. Increasing Cross-National Comparability of Disability Measures with Anchoring Vignettes. The 69th Annual Conference of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, Anaheim, California.
- Yichen Wang, Brady West and Mingnan Liu. (May 2014) Interviewer Perception of Survey Data Quality. The 69th Annual Conference of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, Anaheim, California.
- Sunghee Lee, Mingnan Liu and Norbert Schwarz. (March 2014). Mortality Prediction Using Self-Rated Health and Morality Expectations. Comparative Survey Design and Implementation 2014 Workshop, Bethesda, Maryland.
- Sunghee Lee, Mingnan Liu, Mengyao Hu. (March 2014). Differential Response Styles of Subjective Life Expectancy and Cultural Differences in Time Orientation. Comparative Survey Design and Implementation 2014 Workshop, Bethesda, Maryland.
- Mengyao Hu, Sunghee Lee and Mingnan Liu. (March 2014). Increasing Cross-National Comparability of Disability Measures with Anchoring Vignettes. Comparative Survey Design and Implementation 2014 Workshop, Bethesda, Maryland.
- Yichen Wang, Brady West and Mingnan Liu. (November 2013). Interviewer Perception of Survey Data Quality. The 38th Annual Conference of Midwest Association for Public Opinion Research, Chicago, Illinois.
- Mengyao Hu, Sunghee Lee and Mingnan Liu. (November 2013). Using Vignette Questions to Correct for Response Scale Usage. The 38th Annual Conference of Midwest Association for Public Opinion Research, Chicago, Illinois.
- Ting Yan, Frederick Conrad and Mingnan Liu. (May 2013) Impact of Contact Order on Interviewer Speech and Interaction Characteristics during Survey Interview Introduction. Interviewer-Respondent Interaction Workshop, Boston, Massachusetts
- Mingnan Liu and Sunghee Lee. (May 2013). Measurement of Self-rated Health among U.S. Hispanic Population. The 68th Annual Conference of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, Boston, Massachusetts.
- Mingnan Liu and Sunghee Lee. (March 2013) Measurement of Self-rated Health among U.S. Hispanic Population. The 7th Michigan Student Symposium for Interdisciplinary Statistical Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
- Sunghee Lee, Norbert Schwarz and Mingnan Liu. (March 2013). Mortality Prediction using Self-rated Health and Mortality Expectations. Comparative Survey Design and Implementation 2013 Workshop, Stockholm, Sweden.
- James M. Lepkowski, Mingnan Liu and Lirui He. (February 2013). Surveys of Consumers Attitudes Mode and Frame Research 2009-2012. JPSM/MPSM Survey Methodology Seminar Series, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
- Mingnan Liu, Mahmoud Elkasabi, Zeynep Tuba Suzer-Gurtekin, James M. Lepkowski, Richard Curtin,and Rebecca McBee. (November 2012). Contact Strategies Effect on Participation in Mixed-Mode ABS Surveys. The 37th Annual Conference of Midwest Association for Public Opinion Research, Chicago, Illinois.
- James M. Lepkowski, Mahmoud Elkasabi, Zeynep Tuba Suzer-Gurtekin, Mingnan Liu and Lirui He. (October 2012). Summary of Survey of Comsumer Attitudes Mode and Frame Research, 2009-2012. Survey Design Group, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
- Mingnan Liu and Kevin Stainback. (May 2011). Interviewer Gender Effects on Survey Responses to Marriage-Related Questions. The 66th Annual Conference of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, Phoenix, Arizona.