"Forgive me, I'm new": Three experimental demonstrations of the effects of attempts to excuse poor performance

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 165-178

  Greenberg, Jerald ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0030140820     PISSN: 07495978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/obhd.1996.0046     Document Type: Article

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