Undercover agent assessment centers: Crafting vice and virtue for impostors

Journal of Social Behavior and Personality

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 237-260

  Girodo, Michel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

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