Get 'em while they last! Effects of scarcity information in job advertisements

Journal of Applied Social Psychology

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 779-795

  Highhouse, Scott ^a   Beadle, David ^b   Gallo, Andrew ^b   Miller, Lynn ^b  

^a BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 0032056376     PISSN: 00219029     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1559-1816.1998.tb01731.x     Document Type: Article

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