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Publication Bias Might Make Us Untrustworthy, But the Solutions May Be Worse

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 January 2015

Keith Leavitt*
Affiliation:
Oregon State University
*
E-mail: Keith.leavitt@oregonstate.edu, Address: College of Business, Oregon State University, 338 Bexell Hall, Corvallis, OR 97331-2603

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Copyright © Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2013

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