Using Mimicry to Elicit Answers to Intimate Questions in Survey Research

Field Methods

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 47-57

  Guéguen, Nicolas ^a   Martin, Angélique ^a   Meineri, Sebastien ^a   Simon, Julien ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BRETAGNE SUD   (France)

Author keywords

inhibition; intimate topic; mimicry; survey response

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872513971     PISSN: 1525822X     EISSN: 15523969     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1525822X12449710     Document Type: Article

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