Faulty assumptions: A comment on Blanton, Jaccard, Gonzales, and Christie (2006)

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 393-398

  Nosek, Brian A ^a   Sriram, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Construct validity; Implicit association test; Relative measurement; Structural equation modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 55949111399     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2006.10.018     Document Type: Note

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