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Using Dark Side Personality Traits to Identify Potential Failure

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 January 2015

Dev K. Dalal*
Affiliation:
Bowling Green State University
Kevin P. Nolan
Affiliation:
Bowling Green State University
*
E-mail: [email protected], Address: Department of Psychology, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH 43403

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Copyright © Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2009 

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