Factorial Survey Methods for Studying Goods, Bads, and the Foa Resources

Abstract

(from the chapter) This chapter provided a brief guide for using factorial survey methods to explore the Foa resources, together with the overlapping theoretical processes and predictions. Some of these applications are already well-known. For example, there is a growing body of research that examines individual specific ideas about determination of goods and bads like earnings and prison sentences-both actual determination and just determination, formalized as actual reward functions and just reward functions. Other processes and predictions involving the Foa resources await careful empirical scrutiny via factorial survey methods. Some of the applications discussed in this chapter require only minor modification to existing research protocols-for example, studying the Foa resource dimension of particularism versus universalism requires altering only the instructions given to random subsets of respondents. Thus, factorial survey methods may help accelerate progress in understanding goods, bads, and the Foa resources. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2014 APA, all rights reserved)