The Augustinian methodological family of psychology

New Ideas in Psychology

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 148-162

  Maraun, Michael D ^a   Slaney, Kathleen L ^a   Gabriel, Stephanie M ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Augustinian conception of language; Construct validation theory; Latent variable modelling; Wittgenstein

Indexed keywords

EID: 61849104862     PISSN: 0732118X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.newideapsych.2008.04.011     Document Type: Article

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