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Nontraditional Employment History: A Less Obvious Source of Stereotype Threat

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 January 2015

Robert Melloy  and
Songqi Liu
Robert Melloy
Affiliation:
Pennsylvania State University
Songqi Liu*
Affiliation:
Pennsylvania State University
*
E-mail: sul45@psu.edu, Address: Pennsylvania State University, Department of Psychology, 614 Moore Building, University Park, PA 16802
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Industrial and Organizational Psychology , Volume 7 , Issue 3 , September 2014 , pp. 461 - 466
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Copyright © Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2014

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