Frederick G Conrad
Research Professor, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research and Professor of Psychology, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
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Dr. Conrad is a survey methodologist whose recent work has focused on respondents’ understanding of survey questions. He also studies biases in respondents’ judgments about the frequency of their behaviors, the effect of automatic progress feedback on respondents’ willingness to continue filling out a questionnaire, and the decision to participate in a survey among potential respondents.
- Hanyu Sun, Frederick G Conrad. 2026. How Does Video Interviewing Affect the Interviewers' and Respondents' Paralinguistic Behaviors? A First Exploration. methods, data, analyses
- Frederick G Conrad, Rachel E. Davis, Carolyn Lau, Melissa Armendáriz, Stephanie Alexandra Morales, Timothy P. Johnson, Johnny Blair. 2025. Probing in Cognitive Interviews Can Promote Acquiescence. methods, data, analyses 19(1)
- Maura Spiegelman, Frederick G Conrad. 2025. Improving Understanding of Survey Questions with Multimodal Clarification. methods, data, analyses 19(1):137-165.
- Hanyu Sun, Frederick G Conrad. 2025. How Does Video Interviewing Affect the Interviewers' and Respondents' Paralinguistic Behaviors? A First Exploration. methods, data, analyses
- Davis, Rachel E., Frederick G Conrad, Dong, Shaohua, Mesa, Anna, Sunghee Lee, Johnson, Timothy P.. 2024. An ounce of prevention: using conversational interviewing and avoiding agreement response scales to prevent acquiescence. Quality & Quantity 58:471-495.
- Michael F. Schober, Shlomit Okon, Frederick G Conrad, Andrew L Hupp, Ai Rene Ong, Kallan M. Larsen. 2023. Predictors of Willingness to Participate in Survey Interviews Conducted by Live Video. Technology, Mind, and Behavior 4(2)
- Florian Keusch, Alexander Wenz, Conrad,Frederick G. 2022. Do you have your smartphone with you? Behavioral barriers for measuring everyday activities with smartphone sensors. Computers in Human Behavior 127:107054.
- Frederick G Conrad, Michael F. Schober, Andrew L Hupp, Brady Thomas West, Kallan M. Larsen, Ai Rene Ong, Tianheao Wang. 2022. Video in Survey Interviews: Effects on Data Quality and Respondent Experience. methods, data, analyses 17(2)
- Robyn A. Ferg, Conrad, Frederick G, Johann A. Gagnon-Bartsch. 2021. A Critical Evaluation of Tracking Public Opinion with Social Media: A Case Study in Presidential Approval. methods, data, analyses 15(2):215-240.
- Conrad, Frederick G, Michael F. Schober. 2021. Clarifying question meaning in standardized interviews can improve data quality even though wording may change: a review of the evidence. International Journal of Social Research Methodology 26(2):203-226.
