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Stubborn Reliance on Human Nature in Employee Selection: Statistical Decision Aids Are Evolutionarily Novel

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 January 2015

Stephen M. Colarelli  and
Matthew Thompson
Stephen M. Colarelli*
Affiliation:
Central Michigan University
Matthew Thompson
Affiliation:
Central Michigan University
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E-mail: colar1sm@cmich.edu, Address: Department of Psychology, Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, MI 48859
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Industrial and Organizational Psychology , Volume 1 , Issue 3 , September 2008 , pp. 347 - 351
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Copyright © Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2008 

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Thanks to Geeta D’Souza and Kate Unterborn for comments on an earlier version of this article

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