Reducing vote overreporting in surveys: Social desirability, memory failure, and source monitoring

Public Opinion Quarterly

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 90-108

  Belli, Robert F ^a   Traugott, Michael W ^b   Young, Margaret ^b   McGonagle, Katherine A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 0033243543     PISSN: 0033362X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/297704     Document Type: Article

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