A Cross-Cultural Study of Response Biases in Personality Measures

Journal of Research in Personality

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 415-441

  Grimm, Stephanie D ^a   Church, A Timothy ^a  

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Author keywords

Key Words: Response bias; response style; cross cultural differences

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EID: 0001337583     PISSN: 00926566     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jrpe.1999.2256     Document Type: Article

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