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Practitioner’s View of Personality Testing and Industrial–Organizational Psychology: Practical and Legal Issues

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 January 2015

Gerald V. Barrett*
Affiliation:
Barrett & Associates, Inc.
*
E-mail: gbarrett@barrett-associates.com, Address: Barrett & Associates, Inc., 1772 State Road, Cuyahoga Fall, OH 44223

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Copyright © Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2008 

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