Disregarding preliminary information when rating job applicants' performance: Mission impossible?

Journal of Applied Social Psychology

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1271-1294

  Miron Shatz, Talya ^a   Ben Shakhar, Gershon ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

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EID: 42149105296     PISSN: 00219029     EISSN: 15591816     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1559-1816.2008.00348.x     Document Type: Article

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