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Backlash! What It Is, Where It Comes From, and How We Can Fix It

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 January 2015

Mindy E. Bergman  and
Phia Salter
Mindy E. Bergman*
Affiliation:
Texas A&M University
Phia Salter
Affiliation:
Texas A&M University
*
E-mail: mindybergman@tamu.edu, Address: Texas A&M University, 4235 TAMU, College Station, TX 77845
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Industrial and Organizational Psychology , Volume 6 , Issue 4 , December 2013 , pp. 442 - 450
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Copyright © Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2013

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