Methodological and ethical issues in conducting social psychology research via the internet

The SAGE Handbook of Methods in Social Psychology

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 359-382

  Birnbaum, Michael H ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4135/9781412976190.n16     Document Type: Chapter

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