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Stanley
Presser
Professor
Ph.D. Sociology,
University of Michigan, 1977
Office: 4121 Art-Sociology Building
Phone:
301 314-7836
Email: spresser@socy.umd.edu
Departmental Specialty
Areas:
Social Psychology
Additional Specialty
Areas:
Survey Methodology
 Stanley
Presser is interested in the interface
between social psychology and survey measurement.
His research focuses on questionnaire design and
testing, the accuracy of survey responses,
nonresponse, and
ethical issues stemming from the use of human
subjects. His books include Questions and Answers
in Attitude Surveys (with Howard Schuman),
Survey Questions (with Jean Converse),
and Survey Research Methods (with Eleanor
Singer).
In
addition to being professor of sociology, he teaches
in the
Joint Program in Survey
Methodology, which he founded in 1992
with colleagues at the University of Michigan
and Westat, Inc. He has served as editor of
Public
Opinion Quarterly, was president of the American
Association for Public Opinion Research, and is
an elected fellow of the American Statistical
Association. Presser was director of the Maryland
Survey Research Center from 1989 to 2000.
Course
Syllabi:
Sociology
634: Attitudes and Public Opinion
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