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About Babies and Bathwater: Retaining Core Principles of the Uniform Guidelines

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 January 2015

Alan D. Mead  and
Scott B. Morris
Alan D. Mead*
Affiliation:
Illinois Institute of Technology
Scott B. Morris
Affiliation:
Illinois Institute of Technology
*
E-mail: mead@iit.edu, Address: College of Psychology, Illinois Institute of Technology, 3105 S. Dearborn, Chicago, IL 60616
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Industrial and Organizational Psychology , Volume 4 , Issue 4 , December 2011 , pp. 554 - 557
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Copyright © Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2011 

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