Methods for the detection of carelessly invalid responses in survey data

2015/08/01 by Paul G. Curran, Paul Curran · 1,311 citations
Psychology · Social Sciences · #Behavioral Health and Interventions #Computer science #Curran #Data science #Psychological research #Psychology #Social and Intergroup Psychology #Social psychology

paper · open access · doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2015.07.006

published in Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 66, 4-19 (Elsevier BV)

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