The proximity effect: The role of inter-item distance on reverse-item bias

By Bert Weijters, Maggie Geuens, Niels Schillewaert. 2009

140 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Applied Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Sociology and Political Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/aa54401cad6ab58b32bea55edd7e5ee2349ddaf3

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In Applied Psychology

1. Elke Cabooter
2. Bert Weijters
3. Niels Schillewaert
4. T. Thomas
5. Yves Van Vaerenbergh

In Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

1. Elke Cabooter
2. Bert Weijters
3. Niels Schillewaert
4. T. Thomas
5. Yves Van Vaerenbergh

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Elke Cabooter
2. Bert Weijters
3. Niels Schillewaert

Citations in the corpus

• Working Memory: Theories, Models, and Controversies (2015, unknown): “However, the most direct evidence comes from the study by Weijters et al. (2009) items from being artificially inflated (deflated).”
• The effect of rating scale format on response styles: the number of response categories and response catgory labels (2010, methodology): “To minimize reversed item bias, researchers can disperse same-scale items throughout the questionnaire by including buffer items or items of other scales in between (Weijters et al., 2009).”