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- 1975
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- book-chapter
- Pages
- 193-232
- Citations
- 305
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Abraham Tesser,
Sidney Rosen
(1975).
The Reluctance to Transmit Bad News.
Advances in experimental social psychology
, 193-232.
https://doi.org/10.1016/s0065-2601(08)60251-8
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- 10.1016/s0065-2601(08)60251-8