Correspondence Bias in Performance Evaluation: Why Grade Inflation Works

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• Publication year

  2010

• Venue

  Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

• Publication date

  2010-05-07

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Economics, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1177/0146167210371316PMID 20453201
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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