Blowing the whistle: Determinants of responses to sexual harassment

Basic and Applied Social Psychology

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 457-482

  Perry, Elissa L ^a,c   Kulik, Carol T ^d   Schmidtke, James M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c Inst of Labor/Industrial Relations   (United States)

^d NONE

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EID: 0031488848     PISSN: 01973533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15324834basp1904_4     Document Type: Article

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