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Organizational research on weight stigma must center targets’ perspectives

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 March 2024

Brielle N. Johnson  and
Jonathan W. Kunstman
Brielle N. Johnson
Affiliation:
Auburn University, Auburn, AL, USA
Jonathan W. Kunstman*
Affiliation:
Auburn University, Auburn, AL, USA
*
Corresponding author: Jonathan W. Kunstman; Email: jwk0030@auburn.edu
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Industrial and Organizational Psychology , Volume 17 , Issue 1 , March 2024 , pp. 115 - 120
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© The Author(s), 2024. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology

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