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Industrial, organizational, political?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 December 2021

Peter J. McEachern*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, George Mason University
Lauren E. Kuykendall
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, George Mason University
*
*Corresponding author. Email: pmceach@gmu.edu

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