Quantifying talk: Developing reliable measures of verbal productivity

Behavior Research Methods

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 168-178

  Wardle, Margaret ^a   Cederbaum, Katherine ^a   de Wit, Harriet ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Factor analysis; Speech; Talkativeness; Task validation

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ETHNIC GROUP; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; INTELLIGENCE; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPEECH; WRITING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COMMUNICATION; ETHNIC GROUPS; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; PERSONALITY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPEECH; WORD ASSOCIATION TESTS; WRITING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79953693251     PISSN: 1554351X     EISSN: 15543528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13428-010-0019-y     Document Type: Article

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