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On 1 July 1997, Hong Kong ceased to be a British colony & became the first Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China. Here, three field experiments conducted in 1997 in Hong Kong, Macau, & Taiwan (total N = 1,249 respondents) are drawn on to examine attitudes toward the impact of Hong Kong's transition as a function of question order & framing. Two aspects of attitudes are invoked -- whether (1) they are stored in a memory network, & (2) their validity is important to the respondent -- to predict when order & framing effects are most likely to occur. Experiment 1 examines part-part order effects & reveals attitude polarization such that positive attitudes regarding the effect of the transition on the future of Hong Kong (China) become more extreme if they are elicited after similar responses regarding a related entity, China (Hong Kong). Experiment 2 focuses on part-whole order effects & finds evidence of carryover effects from responses to specific questions on subsequently posed general questions. Experiment 3 examines the effect of framing the transition issue as a "reunification," "handover," or "takeover" on attitudes toward the effect of Hong Kong's transition on Macau & Taiwan. The negative takeover frame elicits less favorable responses when respondents are motivated to hold attitudes perceived as valid (ie, for attitudes toward one's own country) but not otherwise. It is suggested that reliance on survey data in making policy decisions could result in the implementation of decisions that are, objectively speaking, unpopular when the survey instrument evokes response biases. 3 Tables, 1 Figure, 28 References. Adapted from the source document.