Domain specificity in experimental measures and participant recruitment : An application to risk-taking behavior

Psychological Science

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 300-304

  Hanoch, Yaniv ^a,b   Johnson, Joseph G ^c   Wilke, Andreas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

^c MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MALE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; RISK-TAKING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 33645060726     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9280.2006.01702.x     Document Type: Article

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