Self-handicapping: Gender, race, and status

Current Research in Social Psychology

Volumn 10, Issue 16, 2005, Pages

  Lucas, Jeffrey W ^a   Lovaglia, Michael J ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c University of Iowa   (United States)

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