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Stereotyping Research and Employment Discrimination: Time to See the Forest for the Trees

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 January 2015

Eugene Borgida ,
Grace Deason ,
Anita Kim  and
Susan T. Fiske
Eugene Borgida*
Affiliation:
University of Minnesota
Grace Deason
Affiliation:
University of Minnesota
Anita Kim
Affiliation:
University of Minnesota
Susan T. Fiske
Affiliation:
Princeton University
*
E-mail: [email protected], Address: Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, 75 East River Road, Minneapolis, MN 55455
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Industrial and Organizational Psychology , Volume 1 , Issue 4 , December 2008 , pp. 405 - 408
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Copyright © Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2008 

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Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota

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Department of Psychology, Princeton University

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