Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Papers
(The median citation count of Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
More Than Meets the Eyes: Bringing Attention to the Eyes Increases First Impressions of Warmth and Competence41
The Apple Doesn’t “Feel” Far From the Tree: Mother–Child Socialization of Intergroup Empathy41
On Creating Deeper Relationship Bonds: Felt Understanding Enhances Relationship Identification39
Is Progressive Ideology on the Test? Education and Intelligence in the Development of Nontraditional Attitudes37
Which Identities Are Concealable? Individual Differences in Concealability34
Taking Stock and Looking Forward to the Future of Pathogen Politics in Light of New Insights and Recommendations: COVID-19 Threat Was Meaningfully Associated With Support for Liberal Policies in the U34
Becoming Speciesist: How Children and Adults Differ in Valuing Animals by Species and Cognitive Capacity33
Psychological Approaches to Good Luck: The Role of Rituals in Uncertainty32
The Equality Paradox: Gender Equality Intensifies Male Advantages in Adolescent Subjective Well-Being31
Protected by the Emotions of the Group: Perceived Emotional Fit and Disadvantaged Group Members’ Activist Burnout30
Can’t Live With Them, Can’t Live Without Them: The Ambivalent Effects of Existential Outgroup Threat on Helping Behavior26
The Effects of Partner Extraversion and Agreeableness on Trust26
Guns Are Not Faster to Enter Awareness After Seeing a Black Face: Absence of Race-Priming in a Gun/Tool Task During Continuous Flash Suppression25
Populism, Economic Distress, Cultural Backlash, and Identity Threat: Integrating Patterns and Testing Cross-National Validity25
Corrigendum to When Interdependence Backfires: The Coronavirus Infected Three Times More People in Rice-Farming Areas During Chinese New Year24
Need Fulfillment During Intergroup Contact: Three Experience Sampling Studies23
Minds of Monsters: Scary Imbalances Between Cognition and Emotion22
Masculinity Threats Sequentially Arouse Public Discomfort, Anger, and Positive Attitudes Toward Sexual Violence22
Essentializing Happiness Mitigates the Changes in Subjective Well-Being Following Negative Life Events22
Connecting Attitude Position and Function: The Role of Self-Esteem21
Mobilize Is a Verb: The Use of Verbs and Concrete Language Is Associated With Authors’ and Readers’ Perceptions of a Text’s Action Orientation and Persuasiveness21
Does Mindfulness Improve Intergroup Bias, Internalized Bias, and Anti-Bias Outcomes?: A Meta-Analysis of the Evidence and Agenda for Future Research21
Dismissing Attachment and Global and Daily Indicators of Subjective Well-Being: An Experience Sampling Approach21
Strategic Mindsets and Support for Social Change: Impact Mindset Explains Support for Black Lives Matter Across Racial Groups20
Should I Stay or Should I Go? Motives and Barriers for Sustained Collective Action Toward Social Change20
Construal Level Stereotypes: Perceived Differences in Groups’ Abstract Versus Concrete Cognitive Tendencies19
The Empowering Function of the Belief in a Just World for the Self: Trait-Level and Experimental Tests of Its Association With Positive and Negative Affect19
When Time Is the Enemy: An Initial Test of the Process Model of Patience19
Does Religious Priming Induce Greater Prejudice? A Meta-Analytic Review18
Dispositional Religiosity Predicts Increased Incidence of Mixed Emotions: Evidence Across Five Studies Spanning Two Countries18
Estimating the Reliability and Stability of Cognitive Processes Contributing to Responses on the Implicit Association Test18
Do Demographic Increases in LGBT and Nonreligious Americans Increase Threat?17
First-Person Plural (Versus Singular) Pronoun Use Is Linked to Greater Perception of AI Threat17
Applying Implicit Propositional Measures to Detect Faking in Personality-Related Scales: Reliability, Discriminating Power, and Classification Accuracy17
Prototypes of Victims of Workplace Harassment17
Inferences of Masculinity and Femininity Across Intersections of Social Class and Gender: A Social Structural Perspective17
The Unintentional Nonconformist: Habits Promote Resistance to Social influence16
When a Partner Supports Your Sexual Autonomy: Perceived Partner Sexual Autonomy Support, Need Fulfillment, and Satisfaction in Romantic Relationships16
Defensiveness Toward IAT Feedback Predicts Willingness to Engage in Anti-Bias Behaviors16
Willingness for Cross-Class Contact of Different Social Classes and the Mediating Role of Negative Contact Expectations16
Expressing Negativity Enhances Support From Romantic Partners, Even for Trivial Stressors16
Perceiving a Stable Self-Concept Enables the Experience of Meaning in Life16
Perceiving People With Physical Disabilities as Overcoming Adversity Warps Mind Perception15
Measured but Not Induced Perspective-taking Predicts Success in Coalition Formation15
Self-Invitation Hesitation: How and Why People Fail to Ask to Join the Plans of Others15
Awareness and Calibration: The Role of Descriptive Norms and Social Desirability in Accurate IAT Score Predictions of Food Items vs. Social Groups15
Social-Environmental Constraints on the Development of a Concealable Stigmatized Identity Predict Psychological Distress15
How Do People Think About the Relationship Between Science and Religion? A Cross-Cultural Psychometric Investigation15
People Reject Free Money and Cheap Deals Because They Infer Phantom Costs15
Selfie-Evaluation: A Meta-Analysis of the Relationship Between Selfie Behaviors and Self-Evaluations14
Big Is Bad: Stereotypes About Organizational Size, Profit-Seeking, and Corporate Ethicality14
Reflexive Activation of Monoracial Categories During Multiracial Categorization14
In the In-Between: Low-Income Latinx Students Sensemaking of Paradoxes of Independence and Interdependence13
Holding the Belief That Gender Roles Can Change Reduces Women’s Work–Family Conflict13
Biased Beliefs About White Releasees’ Sensitivity to Social Pain13
Correlated Change Between Personality Traits and Perceived Social Support in Old Age13
Repeating Statements Increases Source Credibility12
Diversity of Group Memberships Predicts Well-Being: Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Evidence12
Diversity Deflation: The Effect of Hierarchical Representation on Perceived Diversity, Conflict, and Attraction to Work Teams12
How Individual Differences in Empathy Predict Moments of Empathy in Everyday Life12
Conceal and Don’t Feel as Much? Experiential Effects of Expressive Suppression12
Let the Music Play: Live Music Fosters Collective Effervescence and Leads to Lasting Positive Outcomes12
Low Self-Concept Clarity Induces Scarcity Perceptions: The Subsequent Effects on Prosocial Behavior11
From Individual Anxiety to Collective Narcissism? Adult Attachment Styles and Different Types of National Commitment11
On Cultural Differences of Heroes: Evidence From Individualistic and Collectivistic Cultures11
Partisan Prejudice: The Role of Beliefs About the Unchanging Nature of Ideology and Partisans11
Personality From Age 10 to 16 years. A Four-Wave Cohort Study of Development and Sex Differences in the Big Five and Its Facets11
The Improvement Default: People Presume Improvement When Lacking Information11
Some Evidence That Truth-Tellers Are More Attractive Than Liars11
Perceived Relative Deprivation Across the Adult Lifespan: An Examination of Aging and Cohort Effects11
Growing Together Through Our Cultural Differences: Self-Expansion in Intercultural Romantic Relationships11
On the Limits of Anonymization for Promoting Diversity in Organizations10
A Meta-Analytic Review of the Validity of the Tangram Help/Hurt Task10
View From the Right: Political Orientation and the Association Between Black and Physical Threat10
An Assimilative Effect of Stimulus Co-Occurrence on Evaluation Despite Contrasting Relational Information10
Don’t Go Chasing Narcissists: A Relational-Based and Multiverse Perspective on Leader Narcissism and Follower Engagement Using a Machine Learning Approach10
Small but Still Significant: Awe and the Self10
Motivational Intensity in Emotion Regulation10
Sexual Orientation Disclosure and Strategic Navigation of Interpersonal Invisibility10
When Objective Ambivalence Predicts Subjective Ambivalence: An Affect–Cognition Matching Perspective9
Income Is a Stronger Predictor of Subjective Social Class in More Economically Unequal Places9
It Is Belief in Dualism, and Not Free Will, That Best Predicts Helping: A Conceptual Replication and Extension of Baumeister et al. (2009)9
Demotivating Justice: White Americans’ Outrage at Individual Bigotry May Reduce Action to Address Systematic Racial Inequity9
Spiritual Formidability Predicts the Will to Self-Sacrifice Through Collective Narcissism9
Interpreting Microaggressions: The Role of Discourse Context, Recipient Status, and Observers’ Political Orientation9
Vicarious Dissonance: Pre-Registered Meta-Analysis9
Choosing Money Over Meaningful Work: Examining Relative Job Preferences for High Compensation Versus Meaningful Work9
Do Good Citizens Look to the Future? The Link Between National Identification and Future Time Perspective and Their Role in Explaining Citizens’ Reactions to Conflicts Between Short-Term and Long-Term9
Emphasizing Similarities Between Politically Opposed Groups and Their Influence in Perceptions of the Political Opposition: Evidence From Five Experiments9
Using Everyday Prayer to Test Functions of Gratitude in the Context of Religion9
Affectionate Touch Promotes Shared Positive Activities9
Intergroup Competition, Group Members’ Narcissism, and Competitive Perceptions as Determinants of Group Creativity9
Multiple Reputations: Selective Attention to Competence and Character9
Perception of Socioeconomic Status: A Meta-Analysis of Manipulations9
Barriers to Biculturalism: Historical Negation and Symbolic Exclusion Predict Longitudinal Increases in Bicultural Policy Opposition9
Population Migration Damages the Natural Environment: A Multilevel Investigation of the Relationship Between Residential Mobility and Pro-Environmental Behaviors9
Collectivism Impairs Team Performance When Relational Goals Conflict With Group Goals8
Dehumanization as a Bridge Between Relationship Modes and Meaning in Life8
Implications of Divine Forgiveness for Conciliatory Behavior: Understanding How Feeling Forgiven by God Influences Apologies Via Self-Forgiveness, Gratitude, and Humility8
Self-Regulation Via Visual Fixation: Effects of Strategic Shifting of Attentional Scope on Running Intensity8
Motive Attributions Shape Judgments of Whistleblowers’ Moral Characters8
How Do Invested Partners Become Invested? A Prospective Investigation of Fledgling Relationship Development8
Social Class, Control, and Culture: Individuals with Low Socioeconomic Status Perceive Less Control in Relationally Immobile Societies8
Lordosis in Humans8
Rethinking Knowledge’s Impact on the Illusory Truth Effect8
More Biased, Yet More Informed? Documenting Me-Search Stigma Primarily Linked to Researchers’ Own Group Memberships8
Narcissism and Wellbeing: A Cross-Cultural Meta-Analysis8
In it Together: Relationship Transitions and Couple Concordance in Health and Well-Being8
Perceived and Ideal Inequality in University Endowments in the United States8
Extreme Reactions to Globalization: Investigating Indirect, Longitudinal, and Experimental Effects of the Globalization–Radicalization Nexus7
“Pay Me Back”: Testing the Implications of Long-Term Changes and Partner Similarity in Exchange Orientation Within Intimate Relationships7
Extraverts Reap Greater Social Rewards From Passion Because They Express Passion More Frequently and More Diversely7
Reading Literary Fiction Is Associated With a More Complex Worldview7
New Wine in an Old Bottle? Exposure to Bullying-Related Media and Bullying Perpetration Behavior in Daily Life Among Adolescents7
How Elicitation Procedure Shapes Beliefs About Others’ Affective Responses to Action and Inaction7
The Mismeasure of Culture: Why Measurement Invariance Is Rarely Appropriate for Comparative Research in Psychology7
Studying Daily Social Interaction Quantity and Quality in Relation to Depression Change: A Multi-Phase Experience Sampling Study7
Setting Appropriateness and Romantic Relationship Initiation Success7
Do Experimental Manipulations of Pathogen Avoidance Motivations Influence Conformity?7
Greed: What Is It Good for?7
Kicking Yourself: Going Against Your Inclinations Leads to Greater Feelings of Control and Culpability7
Negotiator Consistency, Counterpart Consistency, and Reciprocity in Behavior Across Partners: A Round-Robin Study7
The Comparative Status Hypothesis: Inferences About Discrimination Vary Based on Identity Salience7
Stereotype Threat at Work: A Meta-Analysis7
Corrigendum7
A Phenomenological Divide: Reference Group Consequences for Existential Isolation7
Differential Value-Wellness Associations in the Unequal World: Social-Focused Values for the Privileged, Personal-Focused Values for the Disadvantaged7
Affective Polarization and Political Belief Systems: The Role of Political Identity and the Content and Structure of Political Beliefs7
Time Poverty Predicts an Imbalance Between Help-Seeking and Help-Giving: The Mediating Effect of Zero-Sum Beliefs About Time7
Beliefs About Linear Social Progress7
Biological Essentialism Correlates With (But Doesn’t Cause?) Intergroup Bias7
Why Do God and Humans Punish? Perceived Retributivist Punishment Motives Hinge on Views of the True Self6
Many Mickles Make a Muckle: Evidence That Gender Stereotypes Reemerge Spontaneously Via Cultural Evolution6
Does Connectedness Need Satisfaction Diminish or Promote Social Goal Striving?6
Self-Awareness and Stereotypes: Accurate Prediction of Implicit Gender Stereotyping6
Racialized Sexism: Nonverbal Displays of Power in Workplace Settings are Evaluated as More Masculine When Displayed by White (vs. Black) Women With Implications for the Expression of Ambivalent Sexism6
Local Legislation is Associated With Regional Transgender Attitudes6
Fallibility Salience Increases Intellectual Humility: Implications for People’s Willingness to Investigate Political Misinformation6
We Need Tough Brothers and Sisters in a Tight World: Cultural Tightness Leads to a Preference for Dominant and Muscular Leaders6
Domain-Specific Greed6
Is It Fair to Kill One to Save Five? How Just World Beliefs Shape Sacrificial Moral Decision-making6
The “Partial Innocence” Effect: False Guilty Pleas to Partially Unethical Behaviors6
Curb Your Positive Stereotypes: Counter-Stereotypical Interventions Improve Attention to Inequality and Discrimination Against Asian Americans6
To Protect or to Kill? Environmental Contingent Self-Worth Moderates Death Prime Effects on Animal-Based Attitudes6
Overconfidently Conspiratorial: Conspiracy Believers are Dispositionally Overconfident and Massively Overestimate How Much Others Agree With Them6
Attribute Conditioning is insensitive to cue competition and is not predicted by the Big Five Personality Traits6
Autonomous Motives Foster Sustained Commitment to Action: Integrating Self-Determination Theory and the Social Identity Approach6
A Bias Toward Kindness Goals in Performance Feedback to Women (vs. Men)6
Racial Knowledge and the Tenets of Critical Race Theory: Is Opposition to CRT Due to Ignorance?6
Enumeration or Exclusion? Demographic Forms and Latine Identity Threat6
A Comparative Investigation of the Predictive Validity of Four Indirect Measures of Bias and Prejudice6
Discrimination and Perceived Cultural Mismatch Increase Status-Based Identity Uncertainty6
Ideology Strength Versus Party Identity Strength: Ideology Strength Is the Key Predictor of Attitude Stability6
The Privileges We Do and Do Not See: The Relative Salience of Interpersonal and Circumstantial Benefits6
Does Maximizing Good Make People Look Bad?6
On the Move: Trajectories of Stressors and Rewards Among Relocating Couples6
Intraindividual Changes in Political Identity Strength (But Not Direction) Are Associated With Political Animosity in the United States and the Netherlands6
The Control Motivation Function of Populist Attitudes: Causal Evidence that Populist Reasoning Raises Perceptions of Control6
Revisiting the Relation Between Steroid Hormones and Unethicality in an Exploratory, Longitudinal Study With Female Participants6
Morality, Social Inclusion, and In-Group Superiority: The Differential Role of Individualizing and Binding Foundations in Perceptions of the Social Identity of In-Group and Out-Group Members6
Prototype Facial Response to Cute Stimuli: Expression and Recognition6
Cultural Differences in Rumination and Psychological Correlates: The Role of Attribution6
Balancing Stereotypically Compatible and Incompatible Identities6
Exploring the Link Between Identity Avoidance and Perceived Self-Knowledge6
Lifting Me Up or Tearing You Down? The Role of Prestige and Dominance in Benign Versus Malicious Envy6
Perceived Relational Support Is Associated With Everyday Positive, But Not Negative, Affectivity in a U.S. Sample6
Effects of Mass Shootings on Mental Illness Stigma in the United States6
Shorter Goals for the Faster Life: Childhood Unpredictability Is Associated With Shorter Motivational Time Horizons5
Speak Up! Mistaken Beliefs About How Much to Talk in Conversations5
Spirituality of Science: Implications for Meaning, Well-Being, and Learning5
Beyond the Dichotomy: Creation and Validation of a Continuous Statewide Index of U.S. Honor Culture5
The Making of a Radical: The Role of Peer Harassment in Youth Political Radicalism5
When Do Real-World Rejections Motivate People to Seek out Symbolic Social Bonds? Insights From the Risk-Regulation Model5
Avoiding Animal Suffering and Preserving Human Lives: Mind Perception and Speciesism in Moral Judgments of Torture and Killing5
Do People Listen to Cassandra? Persuasion and Accuracy in Geopolitical Forecasts5
What Comes First, Acculturation or Adjustment? A Longitudinal Investigation of Integration Versus Mental Resources Hypotheses5
Difficulty-as-Improvement: The Courage to Keep Going in the Face of Life’s Difficulties5
Toward an Index of Adaptive Personality Regulation5
Secrecy in Everyday Life5
What Underlies the Opposition to Trans-Inclusive Policies? The Role of Concerns About Male Violence Versus Attitudes Toward Trans People5
Psychometric Evaluation of Single-Item Relationship Satisfaction, Love, Conflict, and Commitment Measures5
Historical Consciousness: Recollections of Major Historical Events in the Personal Life Story5
Attitude Formation in More- and Less-Complex Social Environments5
Volitional Change in Pathological Traits: Can People Change Their Maladaptive Traits?5
Maximizers Abandon More Before Decisions, Regret More After Decisions, and Re-Maximize More for Second-Time Decisions: Real-World Analysis of Online Consumer Behaviors5
Legacies of Hate: The Psychological Legacy of the Ku Klux Klan5
The Hidden Costs of Gratitude: Gratitude Amplification Is Costly for Personal and Relationship Well-Being5
Seeing Through the Fog: The Ability to Resolve Ambiguity Reduces Dishonesty5
The Gap Between Us: Income Inequality Reduces Social Affiliation in Dyadic Interactions5
Who Did I Swipe On? Accuracy and Self-Presentation in Online Dating5
The Spontaneous Counterfactual Inference Task: Misremembering What Might Have Been5
Restoring Honor by Slapping or Disowning the Daughter5
Sociotropic and Personal Threats and Authoritarian Reactions During COVID-194
On the Disposition to Think Analytically: Four Distinct Intuitive-Analytic Thinking Styles4
A Multi-Goal, Multi-Action, Cognitive-Affective Model for Understanding Gatekeepers’ Intention to Report Deviant Close-Others4
Nostalgia and Health: A Longitudinal Network Analysis of Different Nostalgic Experiences4
Are You Listening to Me? The Negative Link Between Extraversion and Perceived Listening4
Personality and Well-Being Across and Within Relationship Status4
Observation Moderates the Moral Licensing Effect: A Meta-Analytic Test of Interpersonal and Intrapsychic Mechanisms4
Economic Inequality Fosters the Belief That Success Is Zero-Sum4
The Onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic Made People Feel Threatened, but Had a Limited Impact on Political Attitudes in the United States4
Moral Stereotyping: A Surface-Based Cue Promotes the Use of Generalized Morality at an Early Stage of Human Interactions4
Directive and Interpretive Functions of World Beliefs in Dyadic Interaction: Providing and Perceiving Social Support4
Lonely and Self-Centered? A Meta-Analysis of the Link Between Prosociality and Loneliness4
The Privilege to be Yourself Depends on What Others Think of You: Social Status Increases Authenticity4
Cultural Differences in Vicarious Optimism4
Perceived Zero-Sum Competition Between Asian Americans and Black Americans4
Falling Vocal Intonation Signals Speaker Confidence and Conditionally Boosts Persuasion4
Values in Context: The (Dis)connections Between Moral Foundations and Moral Conviction4
Toward a Comprehensive, Data-Driven Model of American Political Goals: Recognizing the “Values” and “Vices” Within Both Liberalism and Conservativism4
When Does Competence Matter? Character as a Moderator in the Development of Trust4
Who Signs Up for Singlehood and Romantic Relationship Studies? Examining Volunteer Bias in Online Recruitment4
Culture and the Social Clock: Cultural Differences in the Optimal Timing of Life4
Deontology and Utilitarianism in Real Life: A Set of Moral Dilemmas Based on Historic Events4
Politically Contaminated Clothes, Chocolates, and Charities: Distancing From Neutral Products Liked by Out-Group or In-Group Partisans4
Gratitude and Self-Benefiting Obedience: Gratitude Eliciting Dishonest Behavior Out of Obedience4
The Two Routes of Collective Psychological Ownership: Rights and Responsibilities Explain Intentions to Exclude Outsiders and Engage in Stewardship Behavior4
What Drives Daily Perseverance and Passion? Grit, Conscientiousness, and Goal Pursuit Experiences4
Give Me a Straight Answer: Response Ambiguity Diminishes Likability4
Gender Backlash and the Moderating Role of Shared Racial Group Membership4
Rigidity-of-the-Right and Ideological Extremism in Belief Superiority: Evidence From National Surveys in Indonesia4
Why Life Moves Fast: Exploring the Mechanisms Behind Autobiographical Time Perception4
It’s (a) Shame: Why Poverty Leads to Support for Authoritarianism4
Spontaneous Trait Inferences From Behavior: A Systematic Meta-Analysis4
Asymmetric Effects of Holding Power Versus Status: Implications for Motivation and Group Dynamics4
The Epidemic of Loneliness: A 9-Year Longitudinal Study of the Impact of Passive and Active Social Media Use on Loneliness4
Evidence for a Curvilinear Effect of Psychological Discomfort on Dominant Group Members’ Engagement in Allyship4
Cultural Inertia: Framework of Change and Intergroup Relations4
Self-Enhancement in Latin America: Is It Linked to Interdependence?4
The Soothing Effect of a Stable World: Social Behavior of Individuals Varying on Social Anxiety Under Fixed and Growth Mindsets About Impression Formation4
The Face of Left-Wing Dissent: Progressives and Traditional Liberals Generate Divergently Negative and Positive Representations of J.K. Rowling4
Order Matters When Using Two-Sided Messages to Influence Morally Based Attitudes4
Cyclical Links Between Daily Partner Interactions and Sleep Quality in Older Adult Couples: The Mediating Role of Perceived Partner Responsiveness and Negative Affect4
Connection Heals Wounds: Feeling Listened to Reduces Speakers’ Loneliness Following a Social Rejection Disclosure4
Temporary Self-Deprivation Can Impair Cognitive Control: Evidence From the Ramadan Fast3
Conspiracy Beliefs and the Perception of Intergroup Inequalities3
Deviancy Aversion and Social Norms3
Temporal Dynamics Between State Attachment Security, Avoidance, and Anxiety: Insights into Everyday Attachment System Functioning3
The Holy Father (and Mother)? Multiple Tests of the Hypothesis That Parenthood and Parental Care Motivation Lead to Greater Religiosity3
In the Face of Opportunities: Facial Structures of Scientists Shape Expectations of STEM Environments3
Appetitive and Aversive Motivation in Dysregulated Behaviors: A Meta-Analysis3
Letting Go of the Negative, Holding on to the Positive? Within-Person Trajectories of Affective Habituation to Negative and Positive Stimuli3
Routines and Meaning in Life: Does Activity Content or Context Matter?3
For Me or Against Me? Reactions to AI (vs. Human) Decisions That Are Favorable or Unfavorable to the Self and the Role of Fairness Perception3
Reverence and Reciprocity in Prioritization of Care to a Parent: The Role of Cultural Ecologies and Implications for Decolonizing Relationality3
Effects of Friendship Influence and Normative Pressure on Adolescent Attitudes and Behaviors3
The Dilution of Diversity: Ironic Effects of Broadening Diversity3
Global Ecology and Geography of Gender Equality3
Intimate Partners’ Political Influence: Longitudinal Evidence for the Mutual Transmission of Party Support between Women and Men3
Who Made This? Algorithms and Authorship Credit3
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