Psychological sources of ambiguity avoidance

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• Publication year

  1986

• Venue

  Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

• Publication date

  1986-10-01

• Fields of study

  Psychology

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  DOI 10.1016/0749-5978(86)90018-X
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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