Urteilsabfrage

Urteilsabfrage is a term used in research and professional contexts to describe the process of eliciting or collecting a person’s judgment, evaluation, or verdict about a given stimulus, scenario, or proposition. The word combines Urteils (judgments) with Abfrage (query or retrieval), reflecting its function as a structured request for an evaluative response.

In practice, Urteilsabfrage involves asking respondents to make a judgment or provide an evaluation, often using standardized response formats. Common formats include binary decisions, Likert scales, ranking, or forced-choice tasks. The method is widely employed in psychology and cognitive science to study judgment formation, bias, calibration, moral judgments, and risk perception, as well as in market research to gauge consumer opinions about products or advertisements. It can also appear in legal, forensically oriented, or policy-related settings when expert or lay judgments about evidence, outcomes, or penalties are solicited.

Methodological considerations include ensuring clarity and neutrality of questions, standardization of the response options, and procedures to minimize biases such as social desirability or demand characteristics. Data from Urteilsabfragen can be analyzed quantitatively (descriptive statistics, inferential tests) or qualitatively, depending on the research design.

See also terms such as Urteilsbildung, Entscheidungsfindung, Fragebogen, und Likert-Skala. Urteilsabfrage is a general methodological concept applicable across disciplines for systematically capturing evaluative judgments.