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On the undervaluing of diversity in the validity–diversity tradeoff consideration

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 August 2023

Jeffrey Olenick  and
Ajay Somaraju
Jeffrey Olenick*
Affiliation:
Old Dominion University, Department of Psychology, Norfolk, Virginia, USA
Ajay Somaraju
Affiliation:
Michigan State University, Department of Psychology, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
*
Corresponding author: Jeffrey Olenick; Email: [email protected]
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Industrial and Organizational Psychology , Volume 16 , Issue 3 , September 2023 , pp. 353 - 357
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© The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology

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