Context in category scales: is "fully agree" equal to twice agree?

Revue europeenne de psychologie appliquee

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 223-229

  Cools, W ^a   Hofmans, J ^a   Theuns, P ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Context; Cross modality matching; Measurement level; Scaling

Indexed keywords

EID: 33751112005     PISSN: 11629088     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.erap.2005.09.007     Document Type: Article

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