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Ghai S, Forscher PS, Chuan-Peng H. Big-team science does not guarantee generalizability. Nat Hum Behav 2024:10.1038/s41562-024-01902-y. [PMID: 38839946 DOI: 10.1038/s41562-024-01902-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/12/2023] [Accepted: 04/25/2024] [Indexed: 06/07/2024]
Affiliation(s)
- Sakshi Ghai
- Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- School of Psychology, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China.
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Pollet TV, Bovet J, Buhaenko R, Cornelissen PL, Tovée MJ. Sample characteristics for quantitative analyses in Body Image: Issues of generalisability. Body Image 2024; 49:101714. [PMID: 38744196 DOI: 10.1016/j.bodyim.2024.101714] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/09/2023] [Revised: 04/02/2024] [Accepted: 04/09/2024] [Indexed: 05/16/2024]
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Psychological research frequently encounters criticism regarding the representativeness of the samples under study, highlighting concerns about the external validity of the obtained results. Here, we conducted a comprehensive survey of all the quantitative samples from the journal Body Image for 2021 (n = 149 samples). Our primary objective was to examine the extent to which the sampled populations deviated from the population at large, which could potentially compromise the generalizability of findings. We identified that a substantial number of these samples came from student populations (n = 44) and the majority were from the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia. Only a small number of samples (n = 9) employed direct measurements of body mass index (BMI), while the majority relied on self-reported data (n = 93). For a subset of samples in the journal, which were drawn from the general population, we compared whether these differed from population reference values in terms of age and BMI. Using Monte Carlo simulations, we found that samples tended to be younger and score lower on BMI than reference values obtained from the broader population. Samples drawn from female university students also tended to be lower on BMI than age-matched reference samples. We discuss the implications of our findings and make recommendations on sampling and inference. We conclude that a clearer specification of the parameters or conditions under which findings are expected to generalise has the potential to enhance the overall rigor and validity of this field of research.
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Kozyreva A, Lorenz-Spreen P, Herzog SM, Ecker UKH, Lewandowsky S, Hertwig R, Ali A, Bak-Coleman J, Barzilai S, Basol M, Berinsky AJ, Betsch C, Cook J, Fazio LK, Geers M, Guess AM, Huang H, Larreguy H, Maertens R, Panizza F, Pennycook G, Rand DG, Rathje S, Reifler J, Schmid P, Smith M, Swire-Thompson B, Szewach P, van der Linden S, Wineburg S. Toolbox of individual-level interventions against online misinformation. Nat Hum Behav 2024:10.1038/s41562-024-01881-0. [PMID: 38740990 DOI: 10.1038/s41562-024-01881-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2023] [Accepted: 04/05/2024] [Indexed: 05/16/2024]
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The spread of misinformation through media and social networks threatens many aspects of society, including public health and the state of democracies. One approach to mitigating the effect of misinformation focuses on individual-level interventions, equipping policymakers and the public with essential tools to curb the spread and influence of falsehoods. Here we introduce a toolbox of individual-level interventions for reducing harm from online misinformation. Comprising an up-to-date account of interventions featured in 81 scientific papers from across the globe, the toolbox provides both a conceptual overview of nine main types of interventions, including their target, scope and examples, and a summary of the empirical evidence supporting the interventions, including the methods and experimental paradigms used to test them. The nine types of interventions covered are accuracy prompts, debunking and rebuttals, friction, inoculation, lateral reading and verification strategies, media-literacy tips, social norms, source-credibility labels, and warning and fact-checking labels.
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- Anastasia Kozyreva
- Center for Adaptive Rationality, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany.
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- Center for Adaptive Rationality, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
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- Center for Adaptive Rationality, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
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- School of Psychological Science & Public Policy Institute, University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
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- School of Psychological Science, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
- Department of Psychology, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
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- Center for Adaptive Rationality, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Economics, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan
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- Craig Newmark Center, School of Journalism, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Learning and Instructional Sciences, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
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- Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Institute for Planetary Health Behaviour, University of Erfurt, Erfurt, Germany
- Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany
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- Melbourne Centre for Behaviour Change, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Department of Psychology and Human Development, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Center for Adaptive Rationality, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
- Department of Psychology, Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Politics and School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
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- Department of Political Science, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
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- Departments of Economics and Political Science, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Psychology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
- Department of Psychology, University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
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- Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Department of Psychology, New York University, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Politics, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
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- Institute for Planetary Health Behaviour, University of Erfurt, Erfurt, Germany
- Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany
- Centre for Language Studies, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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- Graduate School of Education, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Department of Politics, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
- Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Barcelona, Spain
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- Graduate School of Education, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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A Novel, Network-Based Approach to Assessing Romantic-Relationship Quality. PERSPECTIVES ON PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE 2024:17456916231215248. [PMID: 38386418 DOI: 10.1177/17456916231215248] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/24/2024]
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How should romantic-relationship quality be approached psychometrically? This is a complicated theoretical and methodological challenge that we begin to address through three studies. In Study 1a, we identified 25 distinct romantic-relationship categories among 754 items from 26 romantic-relationship-quality instruments with a weak Jaccard index (0.38), indicating that the scales' item content was extremely heterogeneous. Study 1b then demonstrated limited structure validity evidence in 43 scale-development-validation articles of 23 of these 26 instruments. Finally, Study 2 surveyed 587 French-speaking participants in a romantic relationship on romantic-relationship quality. Applying a network-based model, we identified four dimensions, three of which are central to relationship quality. The inferences were mostly limited to French-speaking, monogamous, heterosexual women. To resolve challenges detected in the literature, we recommend a multicountry qualitative approach, more diverse sampling, better definitions of romantic-relationship quality, and a dynamic-systems approach to measuring romantic-relationship quality.
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Kreamer LM, Cobb HR, Castille C, Cogswell J. Big team science initiatives: A catalyst for trustworthy advancements in IO psychology. Acta Psychol (Amst) 2024; 242:104101. [PMID: 38064907 DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2023.104101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2023] [Revised: 11/29/2023] [Accepted: 11/30/2023] [Indexed: 01/16/2024] Open
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Keener et al. (2023) raise concerns about the trustworthiness of Industrial/Organizational (IO) Psychology research and related fields due to the low reproducibility and replicability of research findings. The authors provide various solutions to resolve this crisis, such as improving training, realigning incentives, and adopting open science practices. Our commentary elaborates on one solution to which they briefly allude: Big Team Science Initiatives (BTSIs). BTSIs allow scholars to address the trustworthiness of our science by facilitating large sample theory testing, sharing and allocating resources, and selecting appropriate research strategies, all of which support the reproducibility and replication of research. Further, we propose that BTSIs may facilitate researcher training, encourage data sharing and materials, and realign incentives in our field. We discuss how BTSIs could be implemented in IO psychology and related fields, identifying and drawing upon similar BTSIs in related disciplines. Thus, our commentary is an extension of the focal article, encouraging scholars to collaboratively address the "crisis of confidence" facing our field using a big team science approach.
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- Louisiana State University, United States of America
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Kim MH, Buford K, Ellis A, Davis-Kean PE, Antony C, Braun C, Hurst T, Todd J. A metascience investigation of inclusive, open, and reproducible science practices in research posters at the 2021 SRCD biennial meeting. Child Dev 2023. [PMID: 38102780 DOI: 10.1111/cdev.14059] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2023]
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Over the past decade, there has been a growing appreciation of metascience issues in psychological science. Using data collected from 2615 posters presented at the 2021 biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, this article examines the use of transparent research practices to increase rigor and reproducibility as well as generalizability through greater inclusivity of diverse samples. Research presented through poster presentations was heavily skewed toward quantitative studies featuring American researchers using Western hemisphere samples. Sharing of data/materials, preregistrations, and replications were uncommon. During a time when governments are increasingly requiring more open practices and access, this research provides an important baseline by which developmental science can benchmark progress toward the goals of greater inclusivity and openness.
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- Matthew H Kim
- Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA
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- Department of Human Development and Family Studies, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA
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- Department of Psychology and the Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA
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Vitevitch MS. Speech, Language, and Hearing in the 21st Century: A Bibliometric Review of JSLHR From 2001 to 2021. JOURNAL OF SPEECH, LANGUAGE, AND HEARING RESEARCH : JSLHR 2023; 66:3428-3451. [PMID: 37591238 DOI: 10.1044/2023_jslhr-23-00203] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/19/2023]
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PURPOSE A bibliometric analysis was performed for articles published in the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (JSLHR) from 2001 to 2021 to examine changes to and emerging trends in the speech, language, and hearing sciences in the 21st century. METHOD Quantitative analyses using JASP were performed on the publication rate and number of authors in articles published in JSLHR for each year from 2001 to 2021. VOSviewer was used to analyze and visualize networks of co-occurring Keyword Plus terms extracted from the articles published in JSLHR for several representative years from 2001 to 2021. RESULTS Although the number of publications and number of authors published in JSLHR increased from 2001 to 2021, that growth was consistent with the growth found in science in general and with changes in publication policies and practices. The number and range of countries other than the United States published in JSLHR increased from 2001 to 2021. A consistent set of institutions published frequently in JSLHR across the years examined. The analysis of Keyword Plus terms showed an increase in the range of populations, disorders, and languages that were the subject of research from 2001 to 2021, as well as influences from other fields on speech, language, and hearing sciences. CONCLUSION The science of science approach and the tools of network science are useful for assessing how changes in editorial policy affect diversity, for monitoring research topics that are growing (or declining), for identifying institutions that lead the field, and for inviting discussions among various interested parties related to the growth and development of a discipline.
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- Michael S Vitevitch
- Department of Speech-Language-Hearing: Sciences & Disorders, The University of Kansas, Lawrence
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van Ravenzwaaij D, Bakker M, Heesen R, Romero F, van Dongen N, Crüwell S, Field SM, Held L, Munafò MR, Pittelkow MM, Tiokhin L, Traag VA, van den Akker OR, van ‘t Veer AE, Wagenmakers EJ. Perspectives on scientific error. ROYAL SOCIETY OPEN SCIENCE 2023; 10:230448. [PMID: 37476516 PMCID: PMC10354464 DOI: 10.1098/rsos.230448] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/07/2023] [Accepted: 06/27/2023] [Indexed: 07/22/2023]
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Theoretical arguments and empirical investigations indicate that a high proportion of published findings do not replicate and are likely false. The current position paper provides a broad perspective on scientific error, which may lead to replication failures. This broad perspective focuses on reform history and on opportunities for future reform. We organize our perspective along four main themes: institutional reform, methodological reform, statistical reform and publishing reform. For each theme, we illustrate potential errors by narrating the story of a fictional researcher during the research cycle. We discuss future opportunities for reform. The resulting agenda provides a resource to usher in an era that is marked by a research culture that is less error-prone and a scientific publication landscape with fewer spurious findings.
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- D. van Ravenzwaaij
- Department of Psychology, University of Groningen, Grote Kruisstraat 2/1, Heymans Building, room 239, 9712 TS Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Tilburg University, 5037 AB Tilburg, The Netherlands
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- University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia 6009, Australia
- London School of Economics and Political Science, London WC2A 2AE, UK
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- Department of Psychology, University of Groningen, Grote Kruisstraat 2/1, Heymans Building, room 239, 9712 TS Groningen, The Netherlands
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- University of Amsterdam, 1012 WP Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1TN, UK
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- Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS), Leiden University, 2311 EZ Leiden, The Netherlands
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- University of Zurich, 8006 Zürich, Switzerland
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- School of Psychological Science, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1QU, UK
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- Department of Psychology, University of Groningen, Grote Kruisstraat 2/1, Heymans Building, room 239, 9712 TS Groningen, The Netherlands
- QUEST Center for Transforming Biomedical Research, Berlin Institute of Health, Charité—Universitätsmedizin, 10178 Berlin, Germany
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- IG&H Consulting, 3528 AC Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS), Leiden University, 2311 EZ Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Tilburg University, 5037 AB Tilburg, The Netherlands
- QUEST Center for Transforming Biomedical Research, Berlin Institute of Health, Charité—Universitätsmedizin, 10178 Berlin, Germany
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- Methodology and Statistics Unit, Institute of Psychology, Leiden University, 2333 AK Leiden, The Netherlands
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Li H, Yang B. Forgiving lark, resentful owl: Self-control mediates the relationship between chronotype and forgiveness. Chronobiol Int 2023:1-11. [PMID: 36847217 DOI: 10.1080/07420528.2023.2185151] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/01/2023]
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Considerable evidence shows that nocturnal chronotypes have increased odds of mental health problems, poor academic performance, and impairment in executive functions. Although the cognitive and health costs of evening-oriented preference are well-documented in the literature, little is known about its interpersonal costs. In this article, we propose that people with a preference for an evening chronotype show a lower tendency to forgive following an interpersonal offense because of their lower self-control ability. Three studies using independent samples and complementary measures reveal that morning-evening preference plays a role in the emergence of forgiveness, which provides support for our theoretical perspective. In Study 1, we found that evening-type students were less forgiving when responding to a transgression than morning-type students. Employing a longer measure of forgiveness and a more representative population, Study 2 replicated our initial findings and supported our hypothesis regarding the mediating role of self-control. To circumvent methodological issues associated with self-report data, Study 3 used a behavioral measure of forgiveness and revealed that chronotype can also predict actual forgiving behavior in a laboratory setting. Together, these findings suggest that diurnal preference towards eveningness not only imposes threats on people's health, but can also incur interpersonal costs.
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- Heng Li
- Center for Linguistics, Literary & Cultural Studies, Sichuan International Studies University, Chongqing, China
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- School of Foreign Languages, Southeast University, Nanjing, China
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