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Remaining Issues in Emotional Intelligence Research: Construct Overlap, Method Artifacts, and Lack of Incremental Validity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 January 2015

P.D. Harms*
Affiliation:
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Marcus Credé
Affiliation:
State University of New York at Albany
*
E-mail: pharms2@unl.edu, Address: Department of Management, University of Nebraska at Lincoln, 114 CBA, 1240 R St, Lincoln, NE 68588

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Footnotes

*

Department of Management, University of Nebraska at Lincoln

**

Department of Psychology, State University of New York at Albany.

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