Caring about carelessness: Participant inattention and its effects on research

2013/10/07 by Michael R. Maniaci, Ronald D. Rogge · 861 citations
Psychology · Social Sciences · #Attachment and Relationship Dynamics #Carelessness #Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development #Clinical psychology #Computer science #Consistency (knowledge bases) #Developmental psychology #Psychology #Quality (philosophy) #Scale (ratio) #Social and Intergroup Psychology #Social psychology

paper · doi:10.1016/j.jrp.2013.09.008

published in Journal of Research in Personality 48, 61-83 (Elsevier BV)

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