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The Engine Is Important, but the Driver Is Essential: The Case for Executive Functioning

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 January 2015

Allen I. Huffcutt*
Affiliation:
Bradley University
Allen P. Goebl
Affiliation:
University of Minnesota
Satoris S. Culbertson
Affiliation:
Kansas State University
*
E-mail: huffcutt@bradley.edu, Address: Department of Psychology, Bradley University, 73 Bradley Hall, Peoria, IL 61625

Abstract

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Copyright © Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2012 

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