What do Americans know about inequality? It depends on how you ask them

Judgment and Decision Making

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 741-745

  Eriksson, Kimmo ^a,b   Simpson, Brent ^c  

^a MÄLARDALEN UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anchoring and adjustment; Inequality; Replication study; Response bias

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870593033     PISSN: 19302975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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