Researchers who develop multiple-item measures of a psychological construct sometimes use negatively worded items, that is, items that must be recoded before scoring. This approach is:
A) a useful technique for avoiding a "yay saying" response bias
B) usually a mistake because people have difficulty processing negations
C) only useful after one has exhausted a pool of positively worded questions
D) virtually never used anymore because it creates statistical artifacts
A
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