Bringing partiality to light: Question wording and choice as indicators of bias

Social Cognition

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 91-106

  Semin, Gün R ^a   De Poot, Christianne J ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b NONE

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EID: 0031533036     PISSN: 0278016X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/soco.1997.15.2.91     Document Type: Article

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