Vol. 20 No. 3 (2026): Learning Through Failures

Published: 2026-10-26

Editorial

Learning Through Failures. What Unsuccessful Survey Experiments Teach Us About Design, Measurement, and Inference

Lena Hipp, Sebastian E. Wenz

253-256
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Articles

Male Librarians Cause More Confusion than Female Engineers: Evidence on the Difficulties in Correctly Assessing the Gender Composition of Occupations from a Survey Experiment

Lena Hipp, Sandra Leumann

257-269
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Triggering without Deceiving—An Attempt at Designing a Non-Deceptive Male Identity Threat Treatment

Selina Hofstetter, Anna Wilke, Tinghua Yu

271-278
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Dealing With Inconclusive Findings in Survey Research: The Case of Plain-Language Question Comprehensibility

Tanja Kunz, Tobias Gummer, Cornelia Neuert

279-289
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When Happiness Induction Techniques Make Respondents Unhappy: Failing to Induce Happiness During the Russo-Ukrainian War

Sebastian Jungkunz, Sabrina J. Mayer

291-297
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Corruption, Partisanship, and Voting: Lessons from a Survey Experiment during the Brazilian Presidential Election

Emily Elia, Leslie Schwindt-Bayer, Sofia Vera

299-311
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Oops, They Didn’t Answer Again! Dealing with Systematic Item Nonresponse in a Factorial Survey Experiment

Sophie Hensgen, Florian Zimmermann

313-324
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Gender-Inclusive Language in Labour Markets:Lessons From a Digital Field Experiment

Anica Waldendorf, Klarita Gërxhani, Arnout van de Rijt

325-337
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Losing Control (of the Party): Conjectural Bias in Survey Experiments

Alexander Theodoridis, Stephen Goggin

339-348
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Non-Compliance in Survey Experiments with Placebo Treatments

Nan Zhang, Delia Baldassarri

349-357
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Effectiveness of Using Quick Response (QR) Codes in Survey Invitation Letters: Experiment Conducted in Generations and Gender Survey in the UK

Olga Maslovskaya, Grace Chang, Shane Howe, Eva Aizpurua, Brienna Perelli-Harris

359-367
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Unveiling the Truth: Lessons from a Failed List Experiment on Experiences of Wartime Sexual Violence in Kosovo

Julie Litchfield, Elodie Douarin

369-381
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Hidden Practices Remain Hidden? Lessons from a Failed Attempt to Measure Purchasing Sexual Services Using the Item Count Technique

Carmen M. Leon, Eva Aizpurua

383-390
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When Statistical Truth Serum is not Enough – Lessons from a Failed List Experiment to Measure Corruption in Ukraine

Christoph Sajons, Bettina Müller, Maksym Samoiliuk

391-405
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