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Content Validity and Murphy's Angst

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 January 2015

Irwin L. Goldstein  and
Sheldon Zedeck
Irwin L. Goldstein*
Affiliation:
University System of Maryland
Sheldon Zedeck
Affiliation:
University of California
*
E-mail: Irv@usmd.edu, Address: University System of Maryland, 3300 Metzerott Road, Adelphi, MD 20783
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Industrial and Organizational Psychology , Volume 2 , Issue 4 , December 2009 , pp. 496
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Copyright © Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2009 

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Department of Psychology, University of California

References

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