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What We Don't Know Can Hurt Us: A Call for Stereotype-Congruent Impression Management Tactics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 January 2015

Lawrence Houston III  and
Alicia A. Grandey
Lawrence Houston III*
Affiliation:
The Pennsylvania State University
Alicia A. Grandey
Affiliation:
The Pennsylvania State University
*
E-mail: lhouston@psu.edu, Address: Penn State University, 140 Moore Building, University Park, PA 16802
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Industrial and Organizational Psychology , Volume 6 , Issue 4 , December 2013 , pp. 433 - 437
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Copyright © Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2013

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