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Developing and Scaling Personality Measures: Thurstone Was Right—But So Far, Likert Was Not Wrong

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 January 2015

Frederick L. Oswald  and
Kraig L. Schell
Frederick L. Oswald*
Affiliation:
Rice University
Kraig L. Schell
Affiliation:
Angelo State University
*
E-mail: foswald@rice.edu, Address: Department of Psychology, Rice University, 6100 Main Street, MS 25, Houston, TX 77005
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Industrial and Organizational Psychology , Volume 3 , Issue 4 , December 2010 , pp. 481 - 484
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Copyright © Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2010 

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Department of Psychology, Rice University

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Department of Psychology and Social Work, Angelo State University.

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