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Supplementary Interviewing Techniques to Maximize Output in Free Listing Tasks

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ID2407170
AuthorsDevon D Brewer (University of Washington, corresponding author)
Year2002
Volume14
Issue1
Pages108-118
Publication date2002-02-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCAM (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1087-8513 • E-ISSN: 1552-3969
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1525822x02014001007
OpenAlexW2168598742
LanguageEN
Citations received63
References cited10

Free listing is an important ethnographic tool for defining semantic domains. However, when informants free list items from a particular domain, they often do not mention all items they know because they forget items and/or do not understand that they should list exhaustively. In this article, the author reviews results from research on three supplementary interviewing techniques to encourage full responding and enhance recall in such tasks (nonspecific prompting, reading back to the informant the items he or she free listed, and using free-listed items as semantic cues). These methods increase substantially the number of items elicited from individual informants and the number of items in a domain identified from informants in the aggregate. Moreover, these techniques do not require the interviewer to have any prior domain knowledge to be effective

Cognitive psychology · Domain (mathematical analysis) · Free recall · Interview · Linguistics · Listing (finance) · Reading (process) · Recall · Applied Psychology · Computer Science · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Psychology · Social Psychology · Speech and dialogue systems

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