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Alpha power increases spontaneously during a neurofeedback session. 在神经反馈过程中，阿尔法能量会自发增加。

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Communications Psychology Pub Date : 2026-03-12 DOI: 10.1038/s44271-026-00431-w

Jacob Maaz, Laurent Waroquier, Alexandra Dia, Véronique Paban, Arnaud Rey

{"title":"Alpha power increases spontaneously during a neurofeedback session.","authors":"Jacob Maaz, Laurent Waroquier, Alexandra Dia, Véronique Paban, Arnaud Rey","doi":"10.1038/s44271-026-00431-w","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44271-026-00431-w","url":null,"abstract":"Electroencephalographic neurofeedback (EEG-NF) has been proposed as a promising technique to modulate brain activity through real-time EEG-based feedback. Alpha neurofeedback in particular is believed to induce rapid self-regulation of brain rhythms, with applications in cognitive enhancement and clinical treatment. However, whether this modulation reflects specific volitional control or non-specific influences remains unresolved. In a preregistered, double-blind, sham-controlled study, we evaluated alpha upregulation in healthy participants receiving either genuine (n = 30) or sham (n = 30) EEG-NF during a single-session design. A third arm composed of a passive control group (n = 32) was also included to differentiate between non-specific influences related or not to the active engagement in EEG-NF. Throughout the session, alpha power increased robustly, yet independently of feedback veracity, engagement in self-regulation, or feedback update frequency. Parallel increases in theta and sensorimotor rhythms further suggest broadband non-specific modulation. Importantly, these results challenge the foundational assumption of EEG-NF: that feedback enables volitional EEG control. Instead, they point to spontaneous repetition-related processes as primary drivers, calling for a critical reassessment of neurofeedback efficacy and its underlying mechanisms.","PeriodicalId":501698,"journal":{"name":"Communications Psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2026-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13125214/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147446797","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Behavioral evidence for the hierarchical execution of sequential movements. 顺序动作的等级执行的行为证据。

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Communications Psychology Pub Date : 2026-03-11 DOI: 10.1038/s44271-026-00436-5

Darío Cuevas Rivera, Stefan J Kiebel

{"title":"Behavioral evidence for the hierarchical execution of sequential movements.","authors":"Darío Cuevas Rivera, Stefan J Kiebel","doi":"10.1038/s44271-026-00436-5","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44271-026-00436-5","url":null,"abstract":"Movements in humans and other animals are known to be hierarchically organized, with simple movements forming the building blocks to more complex, sequential movements, a phenomenon often referred to as chunking. Neuroimaging studies have highlighted this layered structure, implicating the primary motor cortex in simple movements, and pre-motor and parietal areas in sequences of movements. Behavioral experiments designed to study this hierarchy have required extensive training of simple movement sequences, such as key presses, using error rates and reaction times as indirect markers of chunking. In this work, we provide kinematic evidence that the hierarchical organization of movements naturally emerges during reaching movements toward large targets, without the need for extensive training. Through model-based analyses of the observed trajectories' geometry in a sequential pointing task (N = 20 participants), we infer the underlying hierarchy of the mechanism guiding movement generation. Our results show that most participants adapt their strategy dynamically using hierarchical planning, depending on the sequence. These findings offer insights into the process of chunking, as well as the conditions on how and when humans switch between flat and hierarchical planning during movement.","PeriodicalId":501698,"journal":{"name":"Communications Psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2026-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13009195/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147438922","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Individual differences in alexithymia modulate cognition-emotion interactions in daily life ongoing experiences. 述情障碍的个体差异调节日常生活持续经历中的认知-情绪相互作用。

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Communications Psychology Pub Date : 2026-03-10 DOI: 10.1038/s44271-026-00434-7

Anqi Lei, Md Faysal, Louis Chitiz, Raven Wallace, Samyogita Hardikar, Brontë McKeown, Jonathan Smallwood, Elizabeth Jefferies, Robert Leech, Nerissa Ho

{"title":"Individual differences in alexithymia modulate cognition-emotion interactions in daily life ongoing experiences.","authors":"Anqi Lei, Md Faysal, Louis Chitiz, Raven Wallace, Samyogita Hardikar, Brontë McKeown, Jonathan Smallwood, Elizabeth Jefferies, Robert Leech, Nerissa Ho","doi":"10.1038/s44271-026-00434-7","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44271-026-00434-7","url":null,"abstract":"Individual differences modulate our thoughts and emotional experiences, yet how thought and emotion interact in daily life remains largely unclear. We leverage alexithymia, a trait reflecting atypical emotional awareness, to reveal these interactions in naturalistic settings. Using multi-dimensional experience sampling via smartphones, we captured moment-to-moment thought patterns and concurrent affective states (valence, arousal, stress) in people's daily life (N = 190 undergraduate students, age range = 18 to 36, 159 females). Using Principal Component Analysis and Linear Mixed Models, we identified four thought dimensions that relate differently to these affective states: future-self orientation, intrusive distraction, sensory engagement, and task-focus. Alexithymia modulated these relationships. High overall alexithymia predicted fewer future-self-oriented thoughts and greater variability in sensory engagement across affective and social contexts, while difficulty identifying feelings selectively reduced future-self orientation during intense sadness, and externally oriented thinking rendered thought patterns less sensitive to affective context. By mapping affective experiences onto thought dimensions, these findings uncover cognitive pathways that connect to emotional well-being, providing a scalable framework for understanding variability in human affective experience.","PeriodicalId":501698,"journal":{"name":"Communications Psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2026-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13106792/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147438966","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Conformity to social norm interventions is not amplified in tighter nations. 对社会规范干预的遵从在更严格的国家不会被放大。

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Communications Psychology Pub Date : 2026-03-05 DOI: 10.1038/s44271-026-00429-4

Jane Acierno, Elisa Tedaldi, Joel Ginn, Danielle Goldwert, Madalina Vlasceanu, Sandra J Geiger, Gregg Sparkman, Sara M Constantino

{"title":"Conformity to social norm interventions is not amplified in tighter nations.","authors":"Jane Acierno, Elisa Tedaldi, Joel Ginn, Danielle Goldwert, Madalina Vlasceanu, Sandra J Geiger, Gregg Sparkman, Sara M Constantino","doi":"10.1038/s44271-026-00429-4","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44271-026-00429-4","url":null,"abstract":"Social norms have a reliable and oftentimes strong influence on individual attitudes and behaviors across environmental and other domains. This influence has been theorized to differ by cultural tightness-the extent to which people adhere to shared cultural norms. Understanding whether and how cultural context moderates the influence of behavioral interventions is essential for the design of culturally-attuned and adaptable interventions to address collective action problems like climate change. Yet, past research has primarily relied on correlational approaches to demonstrate cross-cultural differences in norm adherence, without experimentally manipulating norm information across different settings, limiting insights into how cultural context shapes conformity to norm interventions. Our study tests the effects of three social norm interventions on the climate-related attitudes and behaviors of 16,089 participants in 42 countries. We find that conformity to social norm interventions is not uniformly amplified in tight cultures, suggesting a nuanced relationship between cultural tightness and normative interventions.","PeriodicalId":501698,"journal":{"name":"Communications Psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2026-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13083840/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147367836","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Habit degradation strategies promote faster early reductions in unhealthy snacking habit strength in intensive longitudinal randomised controlled trial. 在密集的纵向随机对照试验中，习惯退化策略促进了不健康零食习惯强度的更快的早期减少。

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Communications Psychology Pub Date : 2026-03-04 DOI: 10.1038/s44271-026-00432-9

Robert Edgren, Dario Baretta, Jennifer Inauen

{"title":"Habit degradation strategies promote faster early reductions in unhealthy snacking habit strength in intensive longitudinal randomised controlled trial.","authors":"Robert Edgren, Dario Baretta, Jennifer Inauen","doi":"10.1038/s44271-026-00432-9","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44271-026-00432-9","url":null,"abstract":"Habits are a key determinant of sustained health behaviour. However, little is known about how to degrade unhealthy habits in daily life. This preregistered single-blind randomised controlled intensive-longitudinal trial tested the efficacy of habit degradation strategies (substitution, inhibition, reduced accessibility) and reward in degrading (i.e. decreasing) an unhealthy snacking habit in daily life using a 3×2 factorial (plus control group) design. 313 participants (mean age 32 years) were randomised via smartphone app to complete 13 weeks of daily self-report assessments. From 13,922 habit strength (Self-Report Behavioural Automaticity Index) observations, within-person time series were modelled using asymptotic functions and generalised additive models to extract indicators of habit change. Habit strength declined over time across groups, with steeper reductions during the first week of the intervention phase. Analysis of variance indicated the rate of change during week 1 to be significantly greater in intervention groups compared to control. Analysis of covariance and logistic regression did not find evidence for differences between strategy or reward condition in magnitude of change, likelihood of reaching asymptote, or time to asymptote. Results suggest using habit degradation strategies may accelerate early reductions in habit strength. Limitations include suboptimal adherence to experimental manipulations and self-report measurement of habit strength. Findings are discussed considering the opportunities and challenges of experimental intensive longitudinal designs in real-world settings.","PeriodicalId":501698,"journal":{"name":"Communications Psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2026-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13076195/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147358463","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Non-random patterns in the co-occurrence and accumulation of adverse life events in two national panel datasets. 两个国家面板数据集中不良生活事件共同发生和累积的非随机模式。

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Communications Psychology Pub Date : 2026-02-27 DOI: 10.1038/s44271-026-00394-y

Kyra Evers, Denny Borsboom, Eiko Fried, Fred Hasselman, František Bartoš, Lourens Waldorp

{"title":"Non-random patterns in the co-occurrence and accumulation of adverse life events in two national panel datasets.","authors":"Kyra Evers, Denny Borsboom, Eiko Fried, Fred Hasselman, František Bartoš, Lourens Waldorp","doi":"10.1038/s44271-026-00394-y","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44271-026-00394-y","url":null,"abstract":"Adverse life events (ALEs), such as illness, bereavement, and accidents, can have profound consequences for physical and mental health. Although existing research highlights risk factors for ALEs, such as personality and socioeconomic status, less is known about patterns in ALEs themselves. How do events cluster and accumulate over time? Using generalized linear mixed-effects models, we study yearly self-reported ALEs in two panel datasets, the Swiss Household Panel (n = 16,946, 210,031 person-years) and the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (n = 25,803, 113,605 person-years). We identify widespread contemporaneous and lag-1 associations between ALEs. The twenty-year accumulation of ALE counts deviates substantially from a random process and is better described by a self-reinforcing process, in which ALEs increase the risk of future ALEs. For all analyses, differences between individuals and households were stronger predictors of event occurrence than concurrent or prior adverse life events. Non-random patterns in ALEs should inform our conceptual and statistical models, as well as our prevention strategies.","PeriodicalId":501698,"journal":{"name":"Communications Psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2026-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13065480/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147319324","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Natural language reveals that political partisans are more affectively aligned over political issues than partisan identities. 自然语言表明，政治党派在政治问题上比党派身份更能有效地结盟。

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Communications Psychology Pub Date : 2026-02-26 DOI: 10.1038/s44271-026-00430-x

Nakwon Rim, Joshua Conrad Jackson, Marc G Berman, Yuan Chang Leong

{"title":"Natural language reveals that political partisans are more affectively aligned over political issues than partisan identities.","authors":"Nakwon Rim, Joshua Conrad Jackson, Marc G Berman, Yuan Chang Leong","doi":"10.1038/s44271-026-00430-x","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44271-026-00430-x","url":null,"abstract":"Affective polarization, defined as the dislike between opposing political groups, is a growing global threat. While much of the focus has been on partisan identities, political divisions may also be driven by affective divergence around political issues, where partisans express opposing feelings toward topics they disagree about. To compare identity-based and issue-based affective alignment, we used word embeddings to analyze two large datasets comprising ~300 million comments from partisan Reddit communities and ~7 million articles from partisan news outlets. We first quantified affective alignment by measuring the valence associations of identity and issue words. In both datasets, affective alignment was greater around political issues than around partisan identities. To validate these findings using a context-sensitive approach, we also used a large language model to rate the valence of identity and issue words in Reddit comments. We again observed stronger affective agreement around issues than identities. These results reveal that even though partisans hold strong negative attitudes toward opposing partisans, the emotional divide around political issues is less pronounced, suggesting opportunities for bridging partisan differences through issue-focused dialog. Our study offers scalable, quantitative tools for understanding the emotional dimensions of political polarization and highlighting pathways to reduce its impact.","PeriodicalId":501698,"journal":{"name":"Communications Psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2026-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13062097/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147313892","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Country-level instability is related to a stronger perceived climate of polarization across 44 countries. 国家层面的不稳定与44个国家更强烈的两极分化气候有关。

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Communications Psychology Pub Date : 2026-02-25 DOI: 10.1038/s44271-026-00422-x

Amy S G Lee, Kelly Kirkland, Brock Bastian

{"title":"Country-level instability is related to a stronger perceived climate of polarization across 44 countries.","authors":"Amy S G Lee, Kelly Kirkland, Brock Bastian","doi":"10.1038/s44271-026-00422-x","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44271-026-00422-x","url":null,"abstract":"Deep-seated partisan animosity and aversion present challenges across the global political landscape, yet little is known about how individuals perceive the climate of polarization in their societies or the broader societal conditions that shape these perceptions. Drawing on a dataset spanning 44 countries (N = 8917), we examined how macro-level indicators of dysfunction and disruption relate to the perceived climate of polarization - that is, the degree to which people believe major voter groups in their society dislike, distrust, and distance themselves from one another. We also tested whether perceptions of anomie in society - specifically, a perceived breakdown in the leadership and social fabric - may partially explain these relationships. Our analyses revealed stronger perceptions of partisan antipathy and distance in countries facing conditions linked to broader systemic instability, including high economic inequality, violence, weak governance, and a fragmented digital media landscape. Perceptions of anomie in society may partially explain these links. By contrast, no significant associations were found for environmental and public health indicators or the strength of democracy. These results suggest perceptions of a polarized societal climate may be linked to dysfunctional and disruptive economic, political, governmental, and social conditions that spark a felt sense of instability and disorder.","PeriodicalId":501698,"journal":{"name":"Communications Psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2026-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13046976/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147313883","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Shape-transitions of a morphing illusory contour can be decoded during multiple-object tracking from the ongoing EEG. 在多目标跟踪过程中，可以对变形的虚幻轮廓的形状转换进行解码。

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Communications Psychology Pub Date : 2026-02-25 DOI: 10.1038/s44271-026-00427-6

Christian Merkel, Matthias Merkel, Jens-Max Hopf, Mircea Ariel Schoenfeld

{"title":"Shape-transitions of a morphing illusory contour can be decoded during multiple-object tracking from the ongoing EEG.","authors":"Christian Merkel, Matthias Merkel, Jens-Max Hopf, Mircea Ariel Schoenfeld","doi":"10.1038/s44271-026-00427-6","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44271-026-00427-6","url":null,"abstract":"The human visual system continuously extracts a wealth of dynamic information from the incoming retinal signal. One important task is the simultaneous tracking of multiple items that are moving within the visual environment. Past work has proposed that such multiple-object tracking relies on attentional resources that are location-based, i.e. resources are respectively associated with the individual items spatial positions. However, another possibility is that attentional resources are object-based, i.e. allocated to the combination of all items as an abstract shape configuration. Indeed, recent data suggests that during multiple-object tracking, the visual system continuously maintains a configuration represented by an illusory polygon formed by the shortest closed path connecting all tracked items. Here, we test this hypothesis by comparing signatures in the electroencephalographic (EEG) signal of 38 subjects with topological transitions of the polygon's shape. The topological transitions are qualitative changes in the polygon shape that go beyond mere quantitative changes in item positions (i.e., polygon corners). During object motion, the shapeshifting polygon can display switches between a convex and a concave shape. Concave shortest-path polygons can exhibit changes in the order in which the tracked objects are connected ('flips'). We demonstrate that topological transition events can be decoded from the ongoing EEG signal, revealing how the abstract configuration and its qualitative changes are represented throughout the tracking. Taken together, our work demonstrates that an object-based attentional mechanism is crucial during multiple-object tracking.","PeriodicalId":501698,"journal":{"name":"Communications Psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2026-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13000183/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147313895","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Against frictionless AI. 对抗无摩擦的AI。

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Communications Psychology Pub Date : 2026-02-24 DOI: 10.1038/s44271-026-00402-1

Emily Zohar, Paul Bloom, Michael Inzlicht

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