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Volume 19 , Issue 3 (August 1995) table of contents

Pages: 38 - 45

Year of Publication: 1995

ISSN:0731-1001

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Patricia Wright

MRC Applied Psychology Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge CB2 2EF England

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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