Asking sensitive questions: The effects of type of referent and frequency wording in counterbiasing methods

Psychology and Marketing

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 633-652

  Raghubir, Priya ^a,b   Menon, Geeta ^c  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NONE

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EID: 0030305916     PISSN: 07426046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1520-6793(199610)13:7<633::AID-MAR1>3.0.CO;2-I     Document Type: Article

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