Predicting survey responses: How and why semantics shape survey statistics on Organizational Behaviour

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2014, Pages

  Arnulf, Jan Ketil ^a   Larsen, Kai Rune ^b   Martinsen, Øyvind Lund ^a   Bong, Chih How ^c  

^a BI NORWEGIAN BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA SARAWAK   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; BEHAVIOR; DEPENDENT VARIABLE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LEADERSHIP; MOTIVATION; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; REVIEW; SEMANTICS; SOCIOLOGY; STATISTICS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

DATA COLLECTION; HUMANS; LEADERSHIP; MOTIVATION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; SEMANTICS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

EID: 84906974911     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0106361     Document Type: Review

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