Resistance to change: Unconscious knowledge and the challenge of unlearning

Fostering Change in Institutions, Environments, and People: A festschrift in Honor of Gavriel Salomon

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 75-93

  Clark, Richard E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203868546     Document Type: Chapter

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