Experiments as politics

Political Psychology

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 309-330

  Spears, Russell ^a   Smith, Heather J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b SONOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Experimenter effects; Experiments; Power; Reflexivity; Social identity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035354417     PISSN: 0162895X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/0162-895X.00241     Document Type: Article

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