The single-item need for consistency scale

Individual Differences Research

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 50-58

  Nichols, Austin Lee ^a   Webster, Gregory D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

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