Assessing personality traits through response latencies using item response theory

Educational and Psychological Measurement

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 389-406

  Ranger, Jochen ^a   Ortner, Tuulia M ^b  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

response latency; response probability; test information

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952964024     PISSN: 00131644     EISSN: 15523888     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0013164410382895     Document Type: Article

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