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Joseph Berger, Robert Z. Norman, James W. Balkwell, Roy F. Smith, Status Inconsistency in Task Situations: A Test of Four Status Processing Principles, American Sociological Review, Vol. 57, No. 6 (Dec., 1992), pp. 843-855
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