What's the risk in asking? Participant reaction to trauma history questions compared with reaction to other personal questions

Ethics and Behavior

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 347-362

  DeMarni Cromer, Lisa ^a   Freyd, Jennifer J ^a   Binder, Angela K ^a   DePrince, Anne P ^b   Becker Blease, Kathryn ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethics; Human subjects; Research; Risk; Trauma

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846857158     PISSN: 10508422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15327019eb1604_5     Document Type: Article

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