Panel studies can be prone to learning effects, which causes respondents to provide lower-quality responses on subsequent waves of a panel survey due and is followed by a decrease overall data quality as a result. In addition, learning effects and conditioning of respondents can increase study attrition rates. In an effort to better understand the mechanisms impacting potential panel conditioning effects, the effects of conditioning frequency were explored using data from the German GESIS Panel study. Panel conditioning was found to have both negative and positive effects on response quality, suggesting that learning effects have a nuanced impact on response quality and attrition and therefore must be closely examined.
