What can we learn with statistical truth serum?

Public Opinion Quarterly

Volumn 77, Issue S1, 2013, Pages 159-172

  Glynn, Adam N ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84875619917     PISSN: 0033362X     EISSN: 15375331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/poq/nfs070     Document Type: Review

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