Measuring the closeness of relationships: A comprehensive evaluation of the 'inclusion of the other in the self' scale

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2015, Pages

  Gächter, Simon ^a,b,c   Starmer, Chris ^a   Tufano, Fabio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b CESIFO   (Germany)

^c IZA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN RELATION; INCLUSION OF THE OTHER IN THE SELF SCALE; INDEX OF RELATIONSHIP CLOSENESS; INTIMACY; LIKING SCALE; LOVING SCALE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; ONLINE SYSTEM; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; RELATIONSHIP CLOSENESS INVENTORY; SCORING SYSTEM; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SUBJECTIVE CLOSENESS INDEX; ADULT; BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS; EGO;

ADULT; ECONOMICS, BEHAVIORAL; EGO; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE;

EID: 84936154876     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0129478     Document Type: Article

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