Quantitative research synthesis: Examining study outcomes over settings, samples, and time

The SAGE Handbook of Methods in Social Psychology

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 335-356

  Wood, Wendy ^a   Christensen, P Niels ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4135/9781412976190.n15     Document Type: Chapter

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