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Examining personality testing in selection for neurodiverse individuals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2023

Lauren Wegmeyer  and
Andrew Speer Open the ORCID record for Andrew Speer [Opens in a new window]
Lauren Wegmeyer*
Affiliation:
Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA
Andrew Speer
Affiliation:
Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA
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*Corresponding author. Email: laurenwegmeyer@wayne.edu
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Industrial and Organizational Psychology , Volume 16 , Issue 1 , March 2023 , pp. 61 - 65
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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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