How to Test Questions About Similarity in Personality and Social Psychology Research: Description and Empirical Demonstration of Response Surface Analysis

Social Psychological and Personality Science

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 465-475

  Barranti, Maxwell ^a   Carlson, Erika N ^a   Côté, Stéphane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

accuracy; agreement; polynomial regression; response surface analysis; similarity

Indexed keywords

EID: 85021765438     PISSN: 19485506     EISSN: 19485514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1948550617698204     Document Type: Article

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