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The International Journal on the Biology of Stress
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Research Article

Stress in performance-related pay: the effect of payment contracts and social-evaluative threat

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Article: 2283435 | Received 18 Feb 2023, Accepted 28 Oct 2023, Published online: 27 Nov 2023

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