Making sense of standardized survey questions: The influence of reference periods and their repetition

Communication Monographs

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 179-187

  Igou, Eric R ^a   Bless, Herbert ^b   Schwarz, Norbert ^c  

^a NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Conversation; Reference Periods; Social Cognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036332905     PISSN: 03637751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/714041712     Document Type: Article

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