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Human values differentially motivate police actions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 January 2023

Sharon Glazer Open the ORCID record for Sharon Glazer [Opens in a new window]  and
Cláudio V. Torres
Sharon Glazer*
Affiliation:
Healthy Organization, Inc. & The University of Baltimore, Baltimore, MD, USA
Cláudio V. Torres
Affiliation:
University of Brasília, Department of Basic Psychological Processes, Brasilia, Brazil
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*Corresponding author. Email: [email protected]
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Industrial and Organizational Psychology , Volume 15 , Issue 4 , December 2022 , pp. 592 - 598
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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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