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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
The Apple Doesn’t “Feel” Far From the Tree: Mother–Child Socialization of Intergroup Empathy118
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 U84
Can’t Live With Them, Can’t Live Without Them: The Ambivalent Effects of Existential Outgroup Threat on Helping Behavior77
More Than Meets the Eyes: Bringing Attention to the Eyes Increases First Impressions of Warmth and Competence33
On Creating Deeper Relationship Bonds: Felt Understanding Enhances Relationship Identification32
Is Progressive Ideology on the Test? Education and Intelligence in the Development of Nontraditional Attitudes31
Protected by the Emotions of the Group: Perceived Emotional Fit and Disadvantaged Group Members’ Activist Burnout30
Americans Misperceive Racial Disparities in Economic Mobility30
The Effects of Partner Extraversion and Agreeableness on Trust30
Which Identities Are Concealable? Individual Differences in Concealability29
The Equality Paradox: Gender Equality Intensifies Male Advantages in Adolescent Subjective Well-Being29
Populism, Economic Distress, Cultural Backlash, and Identity Threat: Integrating Patterns and Testing Cross-National Validity29
Connecting Attitude Position and Function: The Role of Self-Esteem28
Guns Are Not Faster to Enter Awareness After Seeing a Black Face: Absence of Race-Priming in a Gun/Tool Task During Continuous Flash Suppression28
Awareness of the Psychological Bias of Naïve Realism Can Increase Acceptance of Cultural Differences27
Minds of Monsters: Scary Imbalances Between Cognition and Emotion27
Dismissing Attachment and Global and Daily Indicators of Subjective Well-Being: An Experience Sampling Approach25
Strategic Mindsets and Support for Social Change: Impact Mindset Explains Support for Black Lives Matter Across Racial Groups25
Corrigendum to When Interdependence Backfires: The Coronavirus Infected Three Times More People in Rice-Farming Areas During Chinese New Year24
Essentializing Happiness Mitigates the Changes in Subjective Well-Being Following Negative Life Events24
Masculinity Threats Sequentially Arouse Public Discomfort, Anger, and Positive Attitudes Toward Sexual Violence23
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 Affect22
Sacrificing Animals in the Name of Scientific Authority: The Relationship Between Pro-Scientific Mindset and the Lethal Use of Animals in Biomedical Experimentation22
Does Mindfulness Improve Intergroup Bias, Internalized Bias, and Anti-Bias Outcomes?: A Meta-Analysis of the Evidence and Agenda for Future Research22
Should I Stay or Should I Go? Motives and Barriers for Sustained Collective Action Toward Social Change20
Need Fulfillment During Intergroup Contact: Three Experience Sampling Studies20
Does Religious Priming Induce Greater Prejudice? A Meta-Analytic Review19
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 Persuasiveness19
Science for Others or the Self? Presumed Motives for Science Shape Public Trust in Science19
Do Demographic Increases in LGBT and Nonreligious Americans Increase Threat?18
Evaluating Research in Personality and Social Psychology: Considerations of Statistical Power and Concerns About False Findings18
The Unintentional Nonconformist: Habits Promote Resistance to Social influence17
Defensiveness Toward IAT Feedback Predicts Willingness to Engage in Anti-Bias Behaviors17
Prototypes of Victims of Workplace Harassment17
Expressing Negativity Enhances Support From Romantic Partners, Even for Trivial Stressors17
My Fair Lady? Inferring Organizational Trust From the Mere Presence of Women in Leadership Roles17
An Investigation of the Relationship Between Cross-Race Friendships and Attraction17
Estimating the Reliability and Stability of Cognitive Processes Contributing to Responses on the Implicit Association Test17
When Time Is the Enemy: An Initial Test of the Process Model of Patience16
Perceiving a Stable Self-Concept Enables the Experience of Meaning in Life16
Inferences of Masculinity and Femininity Across Intersections of Social Class and Gender: A Social Structural Perspective16
Applying Implicit Propositional Measures to Detect Faking in Personality-Related Scales: Reliability, Discriminating Power, and Classification Accuracy16
Dispositional Religiosity Predicts Increased Incidence of Mixed Emotions: Evidence Across Five Studies Spanning Two Countries16
Awareness and Calibration: The Role of Descriptive Norms and Social Desirability in Accurate IAT Score Predictions of Food Items vs. Social Groups15
When a Partner Supports Your Sexual Autonomy: Perceived Partner Sexual Autonomy Support, Need Fulfillment, and Satisfaction in Romantic Relationships15
Reflexive Activation of Monoracial Categories During Multiracial Categorization15
Diversity Deflation: The Effect of Hierarchical Representation on Perceived Diversity, Conflict, and Attraction to Work Teams15
People Reject Free Money and Cheap Deals Because They Infer Phantom Costs15
Conceal and Don’t Feel as Much? Experiential Effects of Expressive Suppression14
Correlated Change Between Personality Traits and Perceived Social Support in Old Age14
Willingness for Cross-Class Contact of Different Social Classes and the Mediating Role of Negative Contact Expectations14
Biased Beliefs About White Releasees’ Sensitivity to Social Pain14
Perceiving People With Physical Disabilities as Overcoming Adversity Warps Mind Perception13
Interested and Instrumental: An Examination of Instrumentality Regulation With Potential Romantic Partners13
On Cultural Differences of Heroes: Evidence From Individualistic and Collectivistic Cultures13
Let the Music Play: Live Music Fosters Collective Effervescence and Leads to Lasting Positive Outcomes13
Holding the Belief That Gender Roles Can Change Reduces Women’s Work–Family Conflict13
Growing Together Through Our Cultural Differences: Self-Expansion in Intercultural Romantic Relationships12
Perceived Relative Deprivation Across the Adult Lifespan: An Examination of Aging and Cohort Effects12
How Do People Think About the Relationship Between Science and Religion? A Cross-Cultural Psychometric Investigation12
The Improvement Default: People Presume Improvement When Lacking Information12
Social-Environmental Constraints on the Development of a Concealable Stigmatized Identity Predict Psychological Distress12
Selfie-Evaluation: A Meta-Analysis of the Relationship Between Selfie Behaviors and Self-Evaluations12
Big Is Bad: Stereotypes About Organizational Size, Profit-Seeking, and Corporate Ethicality11
Self-Invitation Hesitation: How and Why People Fail to Ask to Join the Plans of Others11
When Polarization Triggers Out-Group “Counter-Projection” Across the Political Divide11
An Assimilative Effect of Stimulus Co-Occurrence on Evaluation Despite Contrasting Relational Information11
In the In-Between: Low-Income Latinx Students Sensemaking of Paradoxes of Independence and Interdependence11
Accuracy in Facial Trustworthiness Impressions: Kernel of Truth or Modern Physiognomy? A Meta-Analysis11
Partisan Prejudice: The Role of Beliefs About the Unchanging Nature of Ideology and Partisans11
Low Self-Concept Clarity Induces Scarcity Perceptions: The Subsequent Effects on Prosocial Behavior11
How Individual Differences in Empathy Predict Moments of Empathy in Everyday Life11
Diversity of Group Memberships Predicts Well-Being: Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Evidence11
From Individual Anxiety to Collective Narcissism? Adult Attachment Styles and Different Types of National Commitment11
Don’t Go Chasing Narcissists: A Relational-Based and Multiverse Perspective on Leader Narcissism and Follower Engagement Using a Machine Learning Approach11
On the Limits of Anonymization for Promoting Diversity in Organizations11
Reactive Risk-Taking: Anxiety Regulation Via Approach Motivation Increases Risk-Taking Behavior10
Perception of Socioeconomic Status: A Meta-Analysis of Manipulations10
A Meta-Analytic Review of the Validity of the Tangram Help/Hurt Task10
Emphasizing Similarities Between Politically Opposed Groups and Their Influence in Perceptions of the Political Opposition: Evidence From Five Experiments10
Sexual Orientation Disclosure and Strategic Navigation of Interpersonal Invisibility10
Motivational Intensity in Emotion Regulation10
Desperately Seeking Status: How Desires for, and Perceived Attainment of, Status and Inclusion Relate to Grandiose and Vulnerable Narcissism10
Multiple Reputations: Selective Attention to Competence and Character10
View From the Right: Political Orientation and the Association Between Black and Physical Threat10
Preparing Silver Linings for a Cloudy Day: The Consequences of Preemptive Benefit Finding10
Body Image Projection Bias in Heterosexual Romantic Relationships: A Dyadic Investigation10
Some Evidence That Truth-Tellers Are More Attractive Than Liars10
Affectionate Touch Promotes Shared Positive Activities10
Diversity’s Impact on the Quality of Deliberations10
Vicarious Dissonance: Pre-Registered Meta-Analysis10
Damaged Masculinity: How Honor Endorsement Can Influence Prostate Cancer Screening Decision-Making and Prostate Cancer Mortality Rates9
Barriers to Biculturalism: Historical Negation and Symbolic Exclusion Predict Longitudinal Increases in Bicultural Policy Opposition9
It Is Belief in Dualism, and Not Free Will, That Best Predicts Helping: A Conceptual Replication and Extension of Baumeister et al. (2009)9
Population Migration Damages the Natural Environment: A Multilevel Investigation of the Relationship Between Residential Mobility and Pro-Environmental Behaviors9
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
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
On the Varieties of Diversity: Ideological Variations in Attitudes Toward, and Understandings of Diversity9
Setting Appropriateness and Romantic Relationship Initiation Success8
Narcissism and Wellbeing: A Cross-Cultural Meta-Analysis8
How Do Invested Partners Become Invested? A Prospective Investigation of Fledgling Relationship Development8
Perceived and Ideal Inequality in University Endowments in the United States8
Thanks, but No Thanks: Unpacking the Relationship Between Relative Power and Gratitude8
Stereotype Threat at Work: A Meta-Analysis8
The Ups and Downs of Being Us: Cross-Relationship Comparisons in Daily Life8
Collectivism Impairs Team Performance When Relational Goals Conflict With Group Goals8
Social Class, Control, and Culture: Individuals with Low Socioeconomic Status Perceive Less Control in Relationally Immobile Societies8
Extreme Reactions to Globalization: Investigating Indirect, Longitudinal, and Experimental Effects of the Globalization–Radicalization Nexus8
In it Together: Relationship Transitions and Couple Concordance in Health and Well-Being8
Studying Daily Social Interaction Quantity and Quality in Relation to Depression Change: A Multi-Phase Experience Sampling Study8
In a Class on Their Own: Investigating the Role of Social Integration in the Association Between Social Class and Mental Well-Being8
More Than a Momentary Blip in the Universe? Investigating the Link Between Religiousness and Perceived Meaning in Life8
Lordosis in Humans8
Greed: What Is It Good for?8
Implications of Divine Forgiveness for Conciliatory Behavior: Understanding How Feeling Forgiven by God Influences Apologies Via Self-Forgiveness, Gratitude, and Humility8
Open to Contact? Increased State Openness Can Lead to Greater Interest in Contact With Diverse Groups7
Reading Literary Fiction Is Associated With a More Complex Worldview7
Do Experimental Manipulations of Pathogen Avoidance Motivations Influence Conformity?7
Beliefs About COVID-19 in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States: A Novel Test of Political Polarization and Motivated Reasoning7
“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
New Wine in an Old Bottle? Exposure to Bullying-Related Media and Bullying Perpetration Behavior in Daily Life Among Adolescents7
Corrigendum7
Kicking Yourself: Going Against Your Inclinations Leads to Greater Feelings of Control and Culpability7
How Does Nostalgia Conduce to Global Self-Continuity? The Roles of Identity Narrative, Associative Links, and Stability7
Affective Polarization and Political Belief Systems: The Role of Political Identity and the Content and Structure of Political Beliefs7
What Do We Hear in the Voice? An Open-Ended Judgment Study of Emotional Speech Prosody7
Biological Essentialism Correlates With (But Doesn’t Cause?) Intergroup Bias7
Bodies and Minds: Heavier Weight Targets Are De-Mentalized as Lacking in Mental Agency7
The Language of Inequality: Evidence Economic Inequality Increases Wealth Category Salience7
Remembering Social Events: A Construal Level Approach7
Cheating at the Top: Trait Dominance Explains Dishonesty More Consistently Than Social Power7
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 Members7
A Phenomenological Divide: Reference Group Consequences for Existential Isolation7
Is It Fair to Kill One to Save Five? How Just World Beliefs Shape Sacrificial Moral Decision-making6
Cultural Differences in Rumination and Psychological Correlates: The Role of Attribution6
The Social Consequences of Frequent Versus Infrequent Apologizing6
Local Legislation is Associated With Regional Transgender Attitudes6
Prototype Facial Response to Cute Stimuli: Expression and Recognition6
You and I Both: Self-Compassion Reduces Self–Other Differences in Evaluation of Showing Vulnerability6
Does Connectedness Need Satisfaction Diminish or Promote Social Goal Striving?6
Domain-Specific Greed6
Autonomous Motives Foster Sustained Commitment to Action: Integrating Self-Determination Theory and the Social Identity Approach6
Attribute Conditioning is insensitive to cue competition and is not predicted by the Big Five Personality Traits6
A Comparative Investigation of the Predictive Validity of Four Indirect Measures of Bias and Prejudice6
We Need Tough Brothers and Sisters in a Tight World: Cultural Tightness Leads to a Preference for Dominant and Muscular Leaders6
Beliefs About Linear Social Progress6
Many Mickles Make a Muckle: Evidence That Gender Stereotypes Reemerge Spontaneously Via Cultural Evolution6
Lockdown Lives: A Longitudinal Study of Inter-Relationships Among Feelings of Loneliness, Social Contacts, and Solidarity During the COVID-19 Lockdown in Early 20206
Racial Knowledge and the Tenets of Critical Race Theory: Is Opposition to CRT Due to Ignorance?6
Self-Awareness and Stereotypes: Accurate Prediction of Implicit Gender Stereotyping6
Ideology Strength Versus Party Identity Strength: Ideology Strength Is the Key Predictor of Attitude Stability6
Discrimination and Perceived Cultural Mismatch Increase Status-Based Identity Uncertainty6
Fallibility Salience Increases Intellectual Humility: Implications for People’s Willingness to Investigate Political Misinformation6
How Elicitation Procedure Shapes Beliefs About Others’ Affective Responses to Action and Inaction6
Negotiator Consistency, Counterpart Consistency, and Reciprocity in Behavior Across Partners: A Round-Robin Study6
Balancing Stereotypically Compatible and Incompatible Identities6
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
A Bias Toward Kindness Goals in Performance Feedback to Women (vs. Men)6
Turning Tables: Offenders Feel Like “Victims” When Victims Withhold Forgiveness6
Revisiting the Relation Between Steroid Hormones and Unethicality in an Exploratory, Longitudinal Study With Female Participants6
Volitional Change in Pathological Traits: Can People Change Their Maladaptive Traits?5
Psychometric Evaluation of Single-Item Relationship Satisfaction, Love, Conflict, and Commitment Measures5
The Making of a Radical: The Role of Peer Harassment in Youth Political Radicalism5
Educators’ Beliefs About Students’ Socioeconomic Backgrounds as a Pathway for Supporting Motivation5
To Protect or to Kill? Environmental Contingent Self-Worth Moderates Death Prime Effects on Animal-Based Attitudes5
Overconfidently Conspiratorial: Conspiracy Believers are Dispositionally Overconfident and Massively Overestimate How Much Others Agree With Them5
Perceived Similarity of the Self to Animals, Creativity, and Anxiety—: A Terror Management Analysis5
Historical Consciousness: Recollections of Major Historical Events in the Personal Life Story5
Why Life Moves Fast: Exploring the Mechanisms Behind Autobiographical Time Perception5
Beyond the Dichotomy: Creation and Validation of a Continuous Statewide Index of U.S. Honor Culture5
Shorter Goals for the Faster Life: Childhood Unpredictability Is Associated With Shorter Motivational Time Horizons5
The Gap Between Us: Income Inequality Reduces Social Affiliation in Dyadic Interactions5
Restoring Honor by Slapping or Disowning the Daughter5
Why Do God and Humans Punish? Perceived Retributivist Punishment Motives Hinge on Views of the True Self5
What Underlies the Opposition to Trans-Inclusive Policies? The Role of Concerns About Male Violence Versus Attitudes Toward Trans People5
Spirituality of Science: Implications for Meaning, Well-Being, and Learning5
The Privileges We Do and Do Not See: The Relative Salience of Interpersonal and Circumstantial Benefits5
The “Partial Innocence” Effect: False Guilty Pleas to Partially Unethical Behaviors5
Lifting Me Up or Tearing You Down? The Role of Prestige and Dominance in Benign Versus Malicious Envy5
On the Disposition to Think Analytically: Four Distinct Intuitive-Analytic Thinking Styles5
Two Ways to Stay at the Top: Prestige and Dominance Are Both Viable Strategies for Gaining and Maintaining Social Rank Over Time5
Attitude Formation in More- and Less-Complex Social Environments5
The Spontaneous Counterfactual Inference Task: Misremembering What Might Have Been5
Difficulty-as-Improvement: The Courage to Keep Going in the Face of Life’s Difficulties5
Legacies of Hate: The Psychological Legacy of the Ku Klux Klan5
Speak Up! Mistaken Beliefs About How Much to Talk in Conversations5
Intraindividual Changes in Political Identity Strength (But Not Direction) Are Associated With Political Animosity in the United States and the Netherlands5
Effects of Mass Shootings on Mental Illness Stigma in the United States5
Seeing Through the Fog: The Ability to Resolve Ambiguity Reduces Dishonesty5
The Role of Witnesses in Humiliation: Why Does the Presence of an Audience Facilitate Humiliation Among Victims of Devaluation?5
Toward an Index of Adaptive Personality Regulation5
Perceived Relational Support Is Associated With Everyday Positive, But Not Negative, Affectivity in a U.S. Sample5
Secrecy in Everyday Life5
What Comes First, Acculturation or Adjustment? A Longitudinal Investigation of Integration Versus Mental Resources Hypotheses5
Falling Vocal Intonation Signals Speaker Confidence and Conditionally Boosts Persuasion5
Personality and Well-Being Across and Within Relationship Status4
Are You Listening to Me? The Negative Link Between Extraversion and Perceived Listening4
Economic Inequality Fosters the Belief That Success Is Zero-Sum4
Deontology and Utilitarianism in Real Life: A Set of Moral Dilemmas Based on Historic Events4
Connection Heals Wounds: Feeling Listened to Reduces Speakers’ Loneliness Following a Social Rejection Disclosure4
Cultural Inertia: Framework of Change and Intergroup Relations4
When Does Competence Matter? Character as a Moderator in the Development of Trust4
Nostalgia and Health: A Longitudinal Network Analysis of Different Nostalgic Experiences4
Cyclical Links Between Daily Partner Interactions and Sleep Quality in Older Adult Couples: The Mediating Role of Perceived Partner Responsiveness and Negative Affect4
The Epidemic of Loneliness: A 9-Year Longitudinal Study of the Impact of Passive and Active Social Media Use on Loneliness4
The Biased Enforcement of Rarely Followed Rules4
Diversity Initiatives and White Americans’ Perceptions of Racial Victimhood4
Does Respect Foster Tolerance? (Re)analyzing and Synthesizing Data From a Large Research Project Using Meta-Analytic Techniques4
The Onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic Made People Feel Threatened, but Had a Limited Impact on Political Attitudes in the United States4
Cultural Differences in Vicarious Optimism4
Order Matters When Using Two-Sided Messages to Influence Morally Based Attitudes4
The Two Routes of Collective Psychological Ownership: Rights and Responsibilities Explain Intentions to Exclude Outsiders and Engage in Stewardship Behavior4
Lonely and Self-Centered? A Meta-Analysis of the Link Between Prosociality and Loneliness4
Sociotropic and Personal Threats and Authoritarian Reactions During COVID-194
The Privilege to be Yourself Depends on What Others Think of You: Social Status Increases Authenticity4
When High Subjective Social Status Becomes a Burden: A Japan–U.S. Comparison of Biological Health Markers4
What Drives Daily Perseverance and Passion? Grit, Conscientiousness, and Goal Pursuit Experiences4
Self-Enhancement in Latin America: Is It Linked to Interdependence?4
Temporal Stability of Moral Dilemma Judgments: A Longitudinal Analysis Using the CNI Model4
It’s (a) Shame: Why Poverty Leads to Support for Authoritarianism4
Gender Backlash and the Moderating Role of Shared Racial Group Membership4
Give Me a Straight Answer: Response Ambiguity Diminishes Likability4
Rigidity-of-the-Right and Ideological Extremism in Belief Superiority: Evidence From National Surveys in Indonesia4
My Fight or Yours: Stereotypes of Activists From Advantaged and Disadvantaged Groups4
Politically Contaminated Clothes, Chocolates, and Charities: Distancing From Neutral Products Liked by Out-Group or In-Group Partisans4
Values in Context: The (Dis)connections Between Moral Foundations and Moral Conviction4
Evidence for a Curvilinear Effect of Psychological Discomfort on Dominant Group Members’ Engagement in Allyship4
Small Sample Size and Group Homogeneity: A Crucial Ingredient to Inter-Group Bias4
Spontaneous Trait Inferences From Behavior: A Systematic Meta-Analysis4
Experimental Tests of the Role of Ideal Partner Preferences in Relationships3
Our Wars Are the Same”: (Horizontal) Collectivism Is Associated With Lay Theory of Generalized Prejudice3
Ostracism Experiences of Sexual Minorities: Investigating Targets’ Experiences and Perceptions by Others3
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
Examining the Context and Content of Organizational Solidarity Statements on Black Americans’ Expectations of Identity Safety3
Who Made This? Algorithms and Authorship Credit3
Appetitive and Aversive Motivation in Dysregulated Behaviors: A Meta-Analysis3
The Dilution of Diversity: Ironic Effects of Broadening Diversity3
Conspiracy Beliefs and the Perception of Intergroup Inequalities3
Rational Dictators in the Dictator Game Are Seen as Cold and Agentic but Not Intelligent3
Temporary Self-Deprivation Can Impair Cognitive Control: Evidence From the Ramadan Fast3
From Challenge to Confidence: The Collapse of Trust in the Pandemic Era and the Protective Role of Belief in a Just World3
Weiner’s Attribution-Emotion-Action Model: Uncovering the Mediating Role of Self-Blame and the Moderating Effect of the Helper’s Responsibility for the Help Recipient’s Behavior3
Lasting Declines in Couples’ Social Network Interactions in the First Years of COVID3
How Much Is Enough? The Relationship Between Prosocial Effort and Moral Character Judgments3
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
Proscriptive Injunctions Can Elicit Greater Reactance and Lower Legitimacy Perceptions Than Prescriptive Injunctions3
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