Social discrimination in a personnel selection context: The effects of an authority's instruction to discriminate and followers' authoritarianism

Journal of Applied Social Psychology

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 206-220

  Petersen, Lars Eric ^a   Dietz, Jörg ^b  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

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EID: 0033622374     PISSN: 00219029     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1559-1816.2000.tb02312.x     Document Type: Article

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