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What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Others? Evidence for the Primacy of the Horizontal Dimension of Social Evaluation in Workplace Gossip Cover

What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Others? Evidence for the Primacy of the Horizontal Dimension of Social Evaluation in Workplace Gossip

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|Oct 2022

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/irsp.687 | Journal eISSN: 2397-8570
Language: English
Submitted on: Jan 31, 2022
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Accepted on: Jul 5, 2022
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Published on: Oct 3, 2022
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

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