Biases in the interpretation and use of research results

Annual Review of Psychology

Volumn 49, Issue , 1998, Pages 259-287

  MacCoun, Robert J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Advocacy; Ideology; Judgment; Methodology; Politics; Values

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032369658     PISSN: 00664308     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.psych.49.1.259     Document Type: Article

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