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  1. Universität Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany

    Eunike Wetzel

  2. University of Dundee, Dundee, UK

    Jan R. Böhnke

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Wetzel, E., Böhnke, J.R. (2017). Differential Item Functioning. 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_1297-1

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