"... And How About Now?": Effects of item redundancy on contextualized self-reports of personality

Journal of Personality

Volumn 79, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1081-1112

  Baird, Brendan M ^a   Lucas, Richard E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; EXTRAVERSION; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INTERNET; META ANALYSIS; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; ROLE PLAYING; SELF REPORT; STANDARD; STUDENT; UNIVERSITY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; EXTRAVERSION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; INTERNET; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROLE; SELF REPORT; STUDENTS; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 80053236122     PISSN: 00223506     EISSN: 14676494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6494.2011.00716.x     Document Type: Article

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