Assessing relationship closeness online: Moving from an interval-scaled to continuous measure of including others in the self

Social Science Computer Review

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 405-409

  Le, Benjamin ^a   Moss, William B ^a   Mashek, Debra ^b  

^a HAVERFORD COLLEGE   (United States)

^b HARVEY MUDD COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Applet; Closeness; Inclusion; Measurement; Methodology; Programming; Scaling

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548073922     PISSN: 08944393     EISSN: 15528286     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0894439307297693     Document Type: Article

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