The trend toward more attractive and informative titles: American psychologist 1946-2010

Psychological Reports

Volumn 110, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 427-444

  Whissell, Cynthia ^a  

^a LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PSYCHOLOGY; PUBLICATION; PUBLISHING; SEMANTICS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES; WRITING;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EDITORIAL POLICIES; HUMANS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; PSYCHOLOGY; PUBLISHING; SEMANTICS; SOFTWARE; UNITED STATES; VOCABULARY; WRITING;

EID: 84861214641     PISSN: 00332941     EISSN: 1558691X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/17.28.PR0.110.2.427-444     Document Type: Article

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