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Actions of little consequence

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2019

Sayeedul Islam*
Affiliation:
Farmingdale State College, Talent Metrics
Xu Zhu
Affiliation:
Columbia University
Holly Jacobs
Affiliation:
Cyber Civil Rights Initiative, University of Miami Law School
Ranjit Nair
Affiliation:
Baruch College
*
*Corresponding author. Email: islams@farmingdale.edu

Abstract

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© Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2019 

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Footnotes

The authors would like to acknowledge and thank Dr. Rownak Choudhury, who reviewed several drafts of this manuscript.

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