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Educational Psychology
An International Journal of Experimental Educational Psychology
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The impact of a cooperative learning experience on pupils’ popularity, non‐cooperativeness, and interethnic bias in multiethnic elementary schools

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Pages 211-221 | Published online: 08 Feb 2008

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