[ Spring 2010 ]
KNOWLEDGE NETWORKS NEWS BRIEFS
KN News and Studies Using KnowledgePanel®
Focus on: Financial Data
Data Star, Inc. provided useful information on investor's financial goals to Fidelity Investments, to determine if affluents are interested in converting to ROTH IRA's. Fidelity's press release appeared in the PR section of Yahoo! Finance, Money at CNN.com, and Scottrade.
Latest news from University of Michigan's C.S. Mott Children's Hospital National Poll on Children's Health and KnowledgePanel® "Parent Concerns Hinder H1N1 Immunization" – NPCH, 2/8/10 "Doctors drive H1N1 vaccination rates" – NPCH, 1/26/10
"Internet predators, privacy, porn: Are parents concerned?" – NPCH, 11/19/09 Photo: © Tasssd-Dreamstime.com |
Focus on: Media
Friends No. 1 way to meet that Valentine, but Web is growing – USA Today, 2/11/10
USA Today prominently cites KN's recent research for Michael Rosenfeld at Stanford--a study about how couples met (please search article title)
The skinny on pool's first dip: Users want to pick their own pre-roll – Online Media Daily, 2/4/10
KN participates in first of a series of PublicisGroupe studies about the most engaging formats for online advertising.
The Home Technology Monitor™: How people select the video they watch – on TV or online
Most TV viewers don't know what to watch – OnlineSPIN, a MediaPost blog, 12/18/09 (Author, Dave Morgan)
KN Dimestore first to enable online ad surveys as part of streaming video, 2/3/10 – KN press release
KN Dimestore first to provide real-time ad effectiveness research to enhance online ad targeting and campaign optimization, 1/11/10 - KN press release
TV ads, WOM best tools to promote shows - MediaPost, 11-20-09
An October New York Times article, "Finding a Guide for Online Networking," quoted Laura Sherbin, economist with the Center for Work Life Policy, who cited this finding from KnowledgePanel: "40% of 1,595 people surveyed reported asking younger colleagues for help with iTunes, text-messaging and social networking."
An AP-KN poll predicted the Yankees would win the World Series – The Associated Press, 10-27-09 (please search article title)
Focus on: Health Care Reform
A study from The Brookings Institute and WorldPublicOpinion.org – "Battleground or Common Ground? American Public Opinion on Health Care Reform" – explored KnowledgePanel members' attitudes on issues from insurance company regulation to employer coverage mandates.
Focus on: World Politics
Multi-Country Poll Reveals That Majority of People Want Action on Climate Change, Even if it Entails Costs – WorldPublicOpinion.org, 12-3-09
Majorities Reject Banning Defamation of Religion – WorldPublicOpinion.org, 11-20-09
Focus on: American Politics and Public Policy
Understanding anti-immigrant sentiment – MITnews, 2/19/10
Principle Investigators: Jens Hainmueller, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Michael Hiscox, Harvard University
Article Author: Peter Dizikes, MIT News Office
Climate change in the American mind: Americans' global warming beliefs and attitudes in January 2010 – Principal Investigators: Anthony Leiserowitz, Yale University; Edward Maibach and Connie Roser-Renouf, George Mason University
CBS News State of the Union poll results – CBS News Political Hotsheet, 1/28/10
KN continues its successful string of "insta-polls" for CBS News around major political events – in this case, President Obama's first State of the Union speech.
Survey of young Americans' attitudes toward politics and public service: 16th Edition, Tracking poll, Executive Summary – 12/3/09
John Della Volpe, Author
The Institute of Politics at Harvard University
KN's Pharma Team has been or will be featured at two recent conferences:
Katherine Binns spoke about global targeting at ESOMAR's Global Healthcare 2010, while Justin Edge and Joanne French will discuss 10 key issues that pharma marketers and researchers need to reconsider at PMRG's Annual National Conference (March 21). Info and links are below.
AAPOR 65th ANNUAL CONFERENCE Knowledge Networks will present eight papers at this year's AAPOR conference, covering important topics such as new findings in the area of non-response bias (using address-based Web panel recruitment), and measuring acculturation in the U.S. Hispanic population. Look for our email alert in April! PMRG 2010 ANNUAL NATIONAL CONFERENCE |
Past
GLOBAL HEALTHCARE 2010 Date: March 1, 2010 PAPOR Conference, Dec 10-11, San Francisco: Author: Charles DiSogra, Knowledge Networks MAPOR Conference, Nov. 21, Chicago: Authors: Ashley Richards, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Mario Callegaro and Charles Di Sogra, Knowledge Networks Authors: J. Michael Dennis and Yelena Kruse, Knowledge Networks; Trevor Tompson, The Associated Press; Mike Henderson, Harvard University Authors: Charles DiSogra, Mario Callegaro and Erlina Hendarwan, Knowledge Networks |
PUBLISHED ARTICLES AND BOOK CITATIONS
using KnowledgePanel® Data
Boettcher III, William, A., and M. D. Cobb. 2009. "Don't Let Them Die in Vain": Casualty Frames and Public Tolerance for Escalating Commitment in Iraq. Journal of Conflict Resolution 53: 677.
Chang, LinChiat, and Jon A. Krosnick. 2009. National surveys via RDD telephone interviewing vs. the internet: Comparing sample representativeness and response quality. Public Opinion Quarterly 73(4): 641-678.
De Jesus, Maria, Layla Parast, Rachel C. Shelton, Kerry Kokkinogenis, Megan K.D. Othus, Yi Li, and Jennifer D. Allen. 2009. Actual versus preferred sources of human papillomavirus information among black, white and hispanic parents. Archives of Pediatric Adolescent Medicine 163(11): 1066-1067.
De Marchi, Scott, and James T. Hamilton. 2009. You are what you choose: The habits of mind that really determine how we make decisions. Penguin Group USA Inc.
Gelpi, Christopher, Peter D. Feaver, and Jason Reifler. 2009. Paying the human costs of war: American public opinion and casualties in military conflicts. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Hainmueller, Jens, and Michael Hiscox. 2010. Attitudes toward highly skilled and low skilled immigration: Evidence from a survey experiment. American Political Science Review. Forthcoming.
Kahan, D.M. 2010. Fixing the communications failure. NATURE 463: 296-297.
Kahan, D.M., Donald Braman, Geoffrey L. Cohen, John Gastil, and Paul Slovic. 2010. Who fears the HPV vaccine, who doesn't, and why?: An experimental study of the mechanisms of cultural cognition. Law and Human Behavior. DOI: 10.1007/s10979-009-9201-0.
Maurer, J. K.M. Harris, A. Parker, and N. Lurie. 2009. Does receipt of seasonal influenza vaccine predict intention to receive novel H1N1 vaccine?: Evidence from a nationally representative survey of U.S. adults. Vaccine 27 (42): 5732-4.
