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Toward a Sociocultural Psychological Approach to Examining Stereotype Threat in the Workplace

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 January 2015

Kisha S. Jones  and
Nichelle C. Carpenter
Kisha S. Jones*
Affiliation:
Pennsylvania State University
Nichelle C. Carpenter
Affiliation:
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
*
E-mail: kisha.jones@psu.edu, Address: Department of Psychology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802
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Industrial and Organizational Psychology , Volume 7 , Issue 3 , September 2014 , pp. 429 - 433
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Copyright © Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2014

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