* Willis J. Goudy is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa. Harry R. Potter is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana. The authors are grateful for comments by Richard D. Warren on an earlier draft of this article and for item selection and survey assistance by Richard J. Hill. Journal Paper No. J-8134 of the Iowa Agriculture and Home Economics Experiment Station, Ames, Iowa. Project No. 2010. 1 Carol H. Weiss, Interaction in the Research Interview: The Effects of Rapport on Response, Proceedings, Social Statistics Section, American Statistical Association, 1970, pp. 18-19. 2 Ibid., 19. 3 See Floyd Dotson, Intensive Interviewing in Community Research, Journal of Educational Sociology, Vol. 27, 1954, pp. 225-230; William A. Scott, Attitude Measurement, in Gardner Lindzey and Elliot Aronson, eds., Handbook of Social Psychology, Vol. II, 2nd ed., Reading, Mass., Addison-Wesley, 1968, pp. 204-273. 4 See, for example, Mark Benney, David Riesman, and Shirley A. Star, Age and Sex in the Interview, American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 62, 1956, pp. 143-152; J. Marshall Brown, Respondents Rate Public Opinion Interviewers, Journal of Applied Psychology, Vol. 39, 1955, pp. 96-102; Dennis P. Forcese and Stephen Richer, Social Research Methods, Englewood Cliffs, N. J., Prentice-Hall, 1973.