Overconfidence in personnel selection: When and why unstructured interview information can hurt hiring decisions

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  2016

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  Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

• Publication date

  2016-11-01

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  Business, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1016/J.OBHDP.2016.07.005
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