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What about the lonely? Bridging loneliness, pandemics, and I-O psychology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 May 2021

Graham H. Lowman*
Affiliation:
Kennesaw State University
*
Corresponding author. Email: glowman@kennesaw.edu

Abstract

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© The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology.

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