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  1. Department of Marketing, Deakin University, 3125, Melbourne, 221 Burwood Hwy, Burwood VIC, Australia

    Stephen T. La Macchia

  2. Department of Psychology, University of Osnabrueck, 49074, Osnabrueck, Seminarstrasse 20, Germany

    Helena R. M. Radke

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La Macchia, S.T., Radke, H.R.M. (2017). Social Dominance Orientation and Social Dominance Theory. In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Shackelford, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_1267-1

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