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Personality assessment for work: Legal, I-O, and clinical perspective

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2019

Stephan Dilchert ,
Deniz S. Ones  and
Robert F. Krueger
Stephan Dilchert
Affiliation:
Baruch College, CUNY
Deniz S. Ones*
Affiliation:
University of Minnesota
Robert F. Krueger
Affiliation:
University of Minnesota
*
*Corresponding author. Email: deniz.s.ones-1@tc.umn.edu
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Industrial and Organizational Psychology , Volume 12 , Issue 2 , June 2019 , pp. 143 - 150
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© Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2019 

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Footnotes

The third author of this commentary was involved in the DSM-5 development process as a member of the Personality and Personality Disorders Work Group and as the workgroup’s text coordinator. His service on the Work Group ended in December 2012; this commentary reflects only the positions and opinions of its three authors as independent scholars.

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