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Blinded By the Light: The Dark Side of Traditionally Desirable Personality Traits

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 January 2015

Mallory A. McCord ,
Dana L. Joseph  and
Emily Grijalva
Mallory A. McCord*
Affiliation:
University of Central Florida
Dana L. Joseph
Affiliation:
University of Central Florida
Emily Grijalva
Affiliation:
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
*
E-mail: m.mccord@knights.ucf.edu, Address: Department of Psychology, University of Central Florida, 4000 Central Florida Blvd, Orlando, FL 32816
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Industrial and Organizational Psychology , Volume 7 , Issue 1 , March 2014 , pp. 130 - 137
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