When your face doesn't fit: Employment discrimination against people with facial disfigurements

Journal of Applied Social Psychology

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 515-526

  Stone, Anna ^a   Wright, Toby ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84875352426     PISSN: 00219029     EISSN: 15591816     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1559-1816.2013.01032.x     Document Type: Article

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