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A Dialectic Perspective on Problem Identification and Construction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 January 2015

Roni Reiter-Palmon
Roni Reiter-Palmon*
Affiliation:
University of Nebraska at Omaha
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E-mail: rreiter-palmon@unomaha.edu, Address: Department of Psychology, University of Nebraska, Omaha, NE 68182
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Industrial and Organizational Psychology , Volume 2 , Issue 3 , September 2009, pp. 349 - 352
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