Coping with accountability cross-pressures: Low-effort evasive tactics and high-effort quests for complex compromises

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 1380-1391

  Green, Melanie C ^a   Visser, Penny S ^b   Tetlock, Philip E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 0034348167     PISSN: 01461672     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0146167200263006     Document Type: Article

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