Self-Handicapping, Expected Evaluation, and Performance: Accentuating the Positive and Attenuating the Negative

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 1995, Pages 84-102

  Sanna, Lawrence J ^a   Mark, Melvin M ^b  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0002369956     PISSN: 07495978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/obhd.1995.1092     Document Type: Article

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