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Emotion Pub Date : 2025-07-10 DOI: 10.1037/emo0001557

Xia Zhang, Yanfang Li

{"title":"The ontogeny of children's group-based guilt and motivated reparative prosocial behaviors.","authors":"Xia Zhang, Yanfang Li","doi":"10.1037/emo0001557","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001557","url":null,"abstract":"Group-based guilt is known for its role in mitigating intergroup conflict and facilitating reconciliation. Although extensive research has explored this emotion among adults, its development and reparative functions during childhood remain unclear. The present study investigated the emergence and development of group-based guilt and its reparative prosocial behaviors among children (Han Chinese aged 4-11 years, N = 268, 135 girls) in response to transgressions committed by in-group members. The results indicated that children began to report group-based guilt soon after they reached 5 years old, with the intensity of this feeling increasing with age. Between the ages of 5 and 6 years, children developed a tendency to engage in verbal prosocial expressions (e.g., apologizing, comforting, and helping) to repair the harm caused by their in-group. However, it was not until nearly 8 years of age that they began sacrificing their possessions to compensate the victim. Both forms of reparative behavior were strengthened with age. Group-based guilt mediated the relationships between harm illegitimacy, in-group responsibility, and reparative behaviors. Overall, these findings suggest that harm illegitimacy and in-group responsibility serve as cognitive antecedents to group-based guilt, which emerges in preschool and transforms into more sophisticated intergroup reparative behaviors as children grow older. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48417,"journal":{"name":"Emotion","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144610000","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Balancing emotional scales: Empathy and dehumanization in legal contexts. 平衡情感尺度：法律语境中的移情与非人化。

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Emotion Pub Date : 2025-07-03 DOI: 10.1037/emo0001559

Isabella Kahhale, Leor Hackel, Jamil Zaki

{"title":"Balancing emotional scales: Empathy and dehumanization in legal contexts.","authors":"Isabella Kahhale, Leor Hackel, Jamil Zaki","doi":"10.1037/emo0001559","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001559","url":null,"abstract":"Does emotional information have a place in court, or does it bias legal decisions? We address this longstanding question using real-world national sentencing patterns and laboratory-based mock jury decisions. Archival analysis of 918,152 observations reveals that the introduction of Victim Impact Statements, in which victims express the effect of crimes on their lives, did not change sentencing outcomes for violent crimes (Study 1). We hypothesized this may occur if observers empathize with victims over defendants by default. In two experimental studies (including a preregistered replication; data collected 2018 and 2019), exposure to the facts of a crime produced empathy for victims but dehumanization of defendants, a pattern not altered by Victim Impact Statements. Upon exposure to both the defendant's perspective and the victim's perspective, people express empathy for the victim and defendant, humanize defendants, and support more lenient sentencing. Internal meta-analyses of Study 2 and 3 found that the pooled effect of the defendant's perspective was much stronger than that of the victim, despite a content analysis demonstrating no significant difference in the emotionality or tone of the two statements. Taken together, the large and real-world sample of Study 1, combined with the experimental manipulation of Studies 2 and 3, suggests that \"empathic defaults\" are part of legal decision making and that introducing-rather than ignoring-multiple perspectives may balance the emotional scales. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48417,"journal":{"name":"Emotion","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144561583","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Cultural shaping of emotion differentiation: Socially engaging and disengaging emotions. 情绪分化的文化塑造：社交参与和社交脱离情绪。

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Emotion Pub Date : 2025-06-26 DOI: 10.1037/emo0001553

Jiyoung Park, Yue Li, Yoonseok Choi, Jinkyung Na, Yiyi Zhu, Adrianna Martin

{"title":"Cultural shaping of emotion differentiation: Socially engaging and disengaging emotions.","authors":"Jiyoung Park, Yue Li, Yoonseok Choi, Jinkyung Na, Yiyi Zhu, Adrianna Martin","doi":"10.1037/emo0001553","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001553","url":null,"abstract":"There is a growing consensus that emotion differentiation-the ability to discern specific emotions-is healthy. To assess this ability, studies so far have exclusively relied on the dimension of emotion pleasantness by lumping together various types of emotions that fall within the same valence category. However, this approach neglects the possibility that individuals may represent certain types of emotions in a more differentiated fashion, if these emotions are functionally adaptive and therefore are more frequently experienced in their cultural environments. Here, we propose social orientation as another dimension to analyze emotion differentiation and test a hypothesis that the ability to differentiate socially engaging (vs. disengaging) emotions is reinforced more and is associated with better health in interdependent (vs. independent) cultural contexts. In a longitudinal daily diary study conducted in the United States and Korea between 2019 and 2020, we assessed the extent to which participants differentiated engaging or disengaging emotions based on 2 weeks of daily affective reports. For both positive and negative emotions, Koreans differentiated engaging emotions more than European Americans did. Conversely, European Americans differentiated disengaging emotions more than Koreans did. Moreover, for both cultural groups, the extent to which they differentiated emotions that are valued more in their respective culture-engaging for Koreans and disengaging for European Americans-predicted better health 2 months later, indirectly via reducing their tendency to ruminate over time. These results suggest that culture shapes how we represent emotions, and doing so in a culturally preferred way has a potential to bring health benefits. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48417,"journal":{"name":"Emotion","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144508907","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The inadequacy of normative ratings for building stimulus sets in affective science. 情感科学中建立刺激集的规范性评级的不足。

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Emotion Pub Date : 2025-06-26 DOI: 10.1037/emo0001554

Christiana Westlin, Kieran McVeigh, Ilana Korogodsky, Gabriella Fernando-McKinley, Deniz Erdogmus, Lisa Feldman Barrett, Ajay B Satpute

{"title":"The inadequacy of normative ratings for building stimulus sets in affective science.","authors":"Christiana Westlin, Kieran McVeigh, Ilana Korogodsky, Gabriella Fernando-McKinley, Deniz Erdogmus, Lisa Feldman Barrett, Ajay B Satpute","doi":"10.1037/emo0001554","DOIUrl":"10.1037/emo0001554","url":null,"abstract":"When investigating the brain, bodily, or behavioral correlates of emotional experience, researchers often present participants with stimuli that are assumed to reliably and exclusively evoke an instance of one, and only one, emotion category across participants (e.g., a fear stimulus, a joy stimulus, and so on). These assumptions are driven by a typological view. Here, we tested the extent to which they are met. Across three studies (total N = 453), participants reported their experiences as they viewed silent video clips or static images that were curated from published studies and from online search engines. Two different response formats were used. Overall, the proportion of stimulus-evoked emotion experiences that met even lenient benchmarks for validity and reliability for labeling a stimulus as pertaining to a single emotion category label was exceedingly low. Furthermore, participants frequently used more than one label for a given instance. The findings suggest that typological assumptions, and the nomothetic approach they align with, rely on assumptions that are rarely, if ever, met in stimulus-evoked paradigms. Correspondingly, the use of group-averaged normative ratings masks tremendous variation that is potentially meaningful. An overreliance on these norms may lead to conclusions that emotions are organized as discrete categories, yet these theory-laden conclusions may have limited generalizability regarding the emotional experiences of individual people during these tasks. Rather, emotional experiences evoked by visual stimuli are multifaceted (i.e., involve multiple labels per instance) and vary tremendously across individuals. Future work may benefit from multifaceted measurement of emotion and idiographic, data-driven modeling approaches. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48417,"journal":{"name":"Emotion","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12221224/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144508908","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Harmonizing hearts: High-quality listening and Kama Muta among listeners and speakers. 和谐的心：高质量的倾听和卡玛·穆塔之间的听众和演讲者。

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Emotion Pub Date : 2025-06-23 DOI: 10.1037/emo0001555

Dvori Saluk, Della Janam, Guy Itzchakov, Kenneth G DeMarree, Angelia Venezia

{"title":"Harmonizing hearts: High-quality listening and Kama Muta among listeners and speakers.","authors":"Dvori Saluk, Della Janam, Guy Itzchakov, Kenneth G DeMarree, Angelia Venezia","doi":"10.1037/emo0001555","DOIUrl":"10.1037/emo0001555","url":null,"abstract":"Kama Muta, a relatively new construct, is an emotion of social connection that describes the feeling of being moved to love through five key dimensions. Despite the growing body of research on the beneficial outcomes of Kama Muta, little is known about its antecedents. To fill this gap, this research focuses on the emergence of Kama Muta during social interactions by specifically examining what triggers this emotion in conversations. The theory on Kama Muta suggests it emerges in response to sudden relationship intensification. We propose that, in conversation, this intensification is most likely triggered by high-quality listening. We examined whether high-quality listening, characterized by undivided attention, understanding, acceptance, nonjudgment, and positive intentions, is associated with Kama Muta for both speakers and listeners. Data were collected across three studies (total N = 1,126), employing scenarios (Study 1), recall (Study 2), and live online conversations conducted via Zoom (Study 3). We found general support for our hypotheses. Specifically, both speakers (Studies 1-3) and listeners (Studies 2-3) experiencing high-quality listening reported greater Kama Muta compared to those exposed to lower quality listening. The consistency of these results varied across different dimensions of Kama Muta. This work offers novel insights into a previously unexplored social behavior that can act as an antecedent of Kama Muta and contributes to the listening literature, which has predominantly focused on the effects on speakers. We discuss the theoretical and practical implications of these findings. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48417,"journal":{"name":"Emotion","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144477372","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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College student depressive symptoms linked to feeling worse during social media use and engaging in social media in more emotionally negative ways: An experimental approach. 大学生抑郁症状与使用社交媒体时感觉更糟以及以更消极的方式参与社交媒体有关：一项实验方法。

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Emotion Pub Date : 2025-06-23 DOI: 10.1037/emo0001558

Alison B Tuck, Joshua J Jackson, Renee J Thompson

{"title":"College student depressive symptoms linked to feeling worse during social media use and engaging in social media in more emotionally negative ways: An experimental approach.","authors":"Alison B Tuck, Joshua J Jackson, Renee J Thompson","doi":"10.1037/emo0001558","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001558","url":null,"abstract":"Despite significant interest in how social media use (SMU) is associated with college student depression, little consensus has been drawn in this area. We argue that a critical step forward is examining how college student depressive symptoms are associated with (a) the emotions students experience while engaged in SMU and (b) how individuals choose to engage in weekly SMU in ways known to impact their emotions. Data were collected in 2022. College students (N = 382) engaged in four SMU types (order randomized) for 3 min in real time during a controlled experiment. They rated their negative affect and positive affect before and after each SMU type. They also completed measures assessing weekly engagement in each SMU type and depressive symptoms. We examined how depressive symptoms were associated with (a) affect change during each SMU type during the experiment (i.e., experimental approach) and (b) with how people engaged in weekly SMU in ways known to influence their emotions experimentally (i.e., person-based survey approach). Depressive symptoms were associated with students feeling worse (more negative affect or less positive affect) during real-time engagement in all four SMU types. Depressive symptoms were also associated with greater weekly engagement in SMU types that were the ones that increased that person's negative affect and decreased their positive affect. By considering multiple types of SMU and taking a person-based approach, our findings help clarify complicated associations between SMU and depression. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48417,"journal":{"name":"Emotion","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144477363","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Extrinsic emotion regulation motives in dyads of friends. 两对朋友的外在情绪调节动机。

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Emotion Pub Date : 2025-06-16 DOI: 10.1037/emo0001552

Angie M Gross, Judy J Kwak, Tammy English

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Do empathic people respond differently to emotional voices? 有同理心的人对情绪化的声音有不同的反应吗？

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Emotion Pub Date : 2025-06-12 DOI: 10.1037/emo0001549

Paul H P Hanel, Silke Paulmann

{"title":"Do empathic people respond differently to emotional voices?","authors":"Paul H P Hanel, Silke Paulmann","doi":"10.1037/emo0001549","DOIUrl":"10.1037/emo0001549","url":null,"abstract":"Past research on the use of motivational voice (or motivational prosody) has found that the way we modulate acoustic cues when we speak can have profound effects on others. However, it is unclear whether the effects also hold for other forms of social communication, such as emotional tone of voice, and what role empathy plays. Across three experiments (two preregistered), we found very large effects indicating that listening to an angry vs. happy voice reduced positive affect in participants, lowered their self-esteem, and eroded their intention to disclose information. These effects were mediated by perceived effort to interact with the speaker, feelings of discomfort, and norm violation, which were higher for an angry voice than for a happy one. Importantly, the effects were, as predicted, stronger for participants scoring high in cognitive empathy and especially affective resonance: More empathic people reported even lower positive affect, self-esteem, and intention to disclose information after listening to the angry vs. happy sounding speaker. This suggests that empathic people are more strongly affected by the tone of voice, even if emotions are only conveyed through vocal tone, without face-to-face interaction. Our findings help to advance related research areas and have important implications for clinical and organizational settings. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48417,"journal":{"name":"Emotion","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144286887","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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How might interpersonal emotion regulation shape well-being? A naturalistic investigation of its link to subsequent affect and intrinsic emotion regulation. 人际情绪调节如何影响幸福感？对其与后续情感和内在情绪调节联系的自然主义研究。

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Emotion Pub Date : 2025-06-02 DOI: 10.1037/emo0001536

Abigail W Berkowitz, Daphne Y Liu, Tammy English, Renee J Thompson

{"title":"How might interpersonal emotion regulation shape well-being? A naturalistic investigation of its link to subsequent affect and intrinsic emotion regulation.","authors":"Abigail W Berkowitz, Daphne Y Liu, Tammy English, Renee J Thompson","doi":"10.1037/emo0001536","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001536","url":null,"abstract":"Intrinsic interpersonal emotion regulation (IER; the process of using others' help to regulate one's own emotions) is an important form of emotion regulation (ER) that has implications for everyday well-being. To further clarify how IER shapes well-being, we investigated how intrinsic IER predicts one's subsequent affect and ER efforts among 215 adults, with and without major depressive disorder, a disorder characterized by ER deficits. Via 2 weeks of ecological momentary assessment, participants reported on their recent intrinsic IER experiences, including whether they engaged in intrinsic IER via social sharing and perceived IER outcomes (problem, relationship). They also reported on their current negative affect (NA), positive affect (PA), and ER strategy use, which occurred subsequent to IER exchanges. Data collection took place between 2017 and 2019. We conducted multilevel modeling to examine within-person associations between recent intrinsic IER and subsequent NA, PA, and ER strategy use. Overall, findings suggest that engagement in intrinsic IER is associated with subsequent affect and ER efforts. Intrinsic IER engagement predicted higher NA and lower PA, but feeling better about the problem shared following IER predicted lower NA and higher PA. Intrinsic IER engagement predicted one's subsequent ER strategy use (i.e., use more social sharing and reappraisal; use less suppression). The findings generally did not vary by major depressive disorder status. Our work clarifies how intrinsic IER relates to emotion experience and regulation over time in naturalistic settings. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48417,"journal":{"name":"Emotion","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144200468","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Causal evidence for adaptive recruitment of subcortical and cortical pathways in rapid fear processing. 快速恐惧加工中皮层下和皮层通路适应性招募的因果证据。

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Emotion Pub Date : 2025-06-02 DOI: 10.1037/emo0001550

Junzhen Guo, Jiaying Lu, Zhuoyun Wu, Zeling Zheng, Jinxiao Dai, Fang Fang, Yingying Wang

{"title":"Causal evidence for adaptive recruitment of subcortical and cortical pathways in rapid fear processing.","authors":"Junzhen Guo, Jiaying Lu, Zhuoyun Wu, Zeling Zheng, Jinxiao Dai, Fang Fang, Yingying Wang","doi":"10.1037/emo0001550","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001550","url":null,"abstract":"This study addresses the long-standing debate on whether the subcortical or cortical visual pathway underlies rapid transmission of threat-related information. Using a single-pulse transcranial magnetic stimulation protocol to transiently disrupt V1/V2 function at various time points, we examined the necessity of early visual cortices at different phases of fear processing. Our results showed that early disruption of V1/V2 had no effect on fearful emotion recognition under conditions of limited visual accessibility (N = 28 adults), but significantly impaired fear recognition when visual accessibility was increased (N = 28 adults). Notably, the impairment occurred as early as 30 ms poststimulus onset and was specific to low spatial frequency information, in stark contrast to the impairment on nonaffective content of the stimuli. These findings suggest a dual-pathway system in the human brain that flexibly engages either the subcortical or cortical pathway, depending on the availability of threat information in the environment. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48417,"journal":{"name":"Emotion","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144200467","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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