Emotions and Emotion Regulation

The Theory

Basic SDT research topics

Neufeld, A. (2025) From suppression to integration: A Self-Determination Theory perspective on emotion regulation in medical education. The Clinical Teacher, 22 ,e70240

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Li, Y., Chiu, T. (2025) The mediating effects of needs satisfaction on the relationship between teacher support and student engagement with generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) chatbots from a self-determination theory (SDT) perspective. Education and Information Technologies,

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Steffgen, S. T.Otterpohl, N., Assor, A., Kanat-Maymon, Y. (2025) “They always disfavor me!”: Parental conditional regard undermines teenage sibling relationships through raising competition and perceived disfavoritism. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 35(3) ,Article e70071

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Ostrricher, Y.Ditrich, L.Sassenberg, K., Kanat-Maymon, Y. (2025) Integration of negative emotions, empathy, and support for conciliatory policies in intractable conflicts. Cognition and Emotion, Advance online publication

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Collie, R. J., Ryan, R. M. (2025) Autonomy support and students’ perceived social-emotional competence: predicting parent-reported social-emotional skills. Social Psychology of Education, 28(1) ,Article 116

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Shen, H.Ye, X.Zhang, J.Huang, D. (2024) Investigating the role of perceived emotional support in predicting learners’ well-being and engagement mediated by motivation from a self-determination theory framework. Learning and Motivation, 86 ,101968

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Rashid, A., Van der Kaap-Deeder, J.Abbate, M., Costa, S. (2024) The mediating role of emotion regulation and basic psychological needs: Association between childhood trauma and young adults’ psychological functioning from a self-determination theory perspective. Journal of Trauma & Dissociation, Advance online publicatione

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Sharabi, Y., Roth, G. (2024) Emotion regulation styles and the tendency to learn from academic failures. British Journal of Educational Psychology, Advance online publication

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Ditrich, L., Roth, G.Sassenberg, K. (2024) Integrative emotion regulation relates to sympathy and support for outgroups — Independent of situational outgroup behaviour. PLoS ONE, 19 ,e0296520

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Philippe, F. L. (2023) In R. M. Ryan (Ed.), How life events are integrated into the self as memories: A memory approach to need satisfaction and emotion regulation. Oxford University Press The Oxford handbook of self-determination theory, ,(pp. 272-291)

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Waterschoot, J.Morbée, S.Vermote, B.Brenning, K. (2023) Emotion regulation in times of COVID-19: A person-centered approach based on self-determination theory. Current Psychology, 42 ,20211-20225

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Kalman-Halevi, M., Kanat-Maymon, Y., Roth, G. (2023) Antecedents of empathic capacity: Emotion regulation styles as mediators between controlling versus autonomy – supportive maternal practices and empathy. International Journal of Emotional Education, 15(1) ,53-72

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Brockman, R.Ciarrochi, J.Parker, P.Kashdan, T. B. (2023) Behaving versus thinking positively: When the benefits of cognitive reappraisal are contingent on satisfying basic psychological needs. Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science, 27 ,120-125

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Van der Kaap-Deeder, J.Wichstrøm, L.Mouratidis, A., Matos, L. (2023) Emotion crafting: Individuals as agents of their positive emotional experiences. Motivation and Emotion, 47(5) ,870–886

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Champ, R. E.Adamou, M.Tolchard, B. (2023) Seeking connection, autonomy and emotional feedback: A Self-Determination Theory of self-regulation in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Physiological Reviews, 130(3) ,569-603

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Roth, G., Benita, M. (2023) In R. M. Ryan (Ed.), Integration versus minimization of emotional experiences: Addressing the question of adaptive emotion regulation. Oxford University Press The Oxford handbook of self-determination theory, ,pp. 200-214

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Haines, J. E.Schutte, N. S. (2023) Parental conditional regard: A meta-analysis. Journal of Adolescence, 95(2) ,195-223

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Kanat-Maymon, Y., Assor, A., Roth, G. (2023) In R. M. Ryan (Ed.), Conditional regard in development and relationships. Oxford University Press The Oxford handbook of self-determination theory, ,pp. 548–570

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Barthelmäs, M.Kesberg, R.Hermann, A.Keller, J. (2022) Five reasons to cry—FRC: a taxonomy for common antecedents of emotional crying. Motivation and Emotion, 46(3) ,404-427

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Collie, R. J. (2022) Perceived social-emotional competence: A multidimensional examination and links with social-emotional motivation and behaviors. Learning and Instruction, 82 ,101656

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Nguyen, T. T., Weinstein, N., Ryan, R. M. (2022) Who enjoys solitude? autonomous functioning (but not introversion) predicts self-determined motivation (but not preference) for solitude. PLoS One, 17(5) ,e0267185

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Nguyen, T. T., Weinstein, N., Deci, E. L. (2022) The motivation to do nothing when alone: Autonomy as driver of emotions and diversion behaviors in solitude. Collabra: Psychology, 8(1) ,31629

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Brenning, K., Soenens, B., Vansteenkiste, M.De Clercq, B. (2022) Emotion regulation as a transdiagnostic risk factor for (non)clinical adolescents’ internalizing and externalizing psychopathology: Investigating the intervening role of psychological need experiences. Child Psychiatry & Human Development, 53 ,124-136

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Van der Kaap-Deeder, J.Brenning, K.Neyrinck, B. (2021) Emotion regulation and borderline personality features: The mediating role of basic psychological need frustration. Personality and Individual Differences, 168 ,110265

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Nguyen, T. T., Weinstein, N., Ryan, R. M. (2021) In In. R. J. Coplan, J. C. Bowker, & L. Nelson (Eds.), The possibilities of aloneness and solitude: Developing an understanding framed through the lens of human motivation and needs. New York, NY: Wiley-Blackwell Press The handbook of solitude: Psychological perspectives on social isolation, social withdrawal, and being alone, ,224-239

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Cournoyer, A., Laurin, J. C.Daspe, M-E.Laniel, S. (2021) Conditional regard, stress, and dyadic adjustment in primiparous couples: A dyadic analysis perspective. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 38(5) ,1472-1494

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Benita, M. (2020) Freedom to feel: A self‐determination theory account of emotion regulation. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 14(11) ,e12563

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Van der Kaap-Deeder, J., Soenens, B.Mouratidis, A.De Pauw, S. (2020) Towards a detailed understanding of preschool children’s memory-related functioning and emotion regulation: The role of parents’ observed reminiscence style, memory valence, and parental gender. Developmental Psychology, 56 ,1696-1708

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Ludwig, V. U., Brown, K. W.Brewer, J. A. (2020) Self-regulation without force: Can awareness leverage reward to drive behavior change?. Association for Psychological Science, 15(6) ,1382-1399

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Benita, M.Shechter, T.Nudler-Muzikant, S.Arbel, R. (2020) Emotion regulation during personal goal pursuit: Integration versus suppression of emotions. Journal of Personality, 00 ,1–15

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Assor, A.Buhnick-Atzil, O.Rabinovitz-Magen, L.Auerbach, J. (2020) Maternal prenatal conditional regard orientation and postnatal controlling behaviour as predictors of preschoolers’ helpless coping with failure: A prospective study. Journal European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 17(6) ,828-854

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Philippe, F. L.Houle, I. (2020) Cognitive integration of personal or public events affects mental health: Investigating memory networks in a case of natural flooding disaster. Journal of Personality, 88(5) ,861–873

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Houle, I., Philippe, F. L. (2020) Is the negative always that bad? Or how emotion regulation and integration of negative memories can positively affect well-being. Journal of Personality, 88(5) ,965–977

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Cohen, R.Moed, A.Shoshani, A., Roth, G. (2020) Teachers’ conditional regard and students’ need satisfaction and agentic engagement: A multilevel motivation mediation model. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 49 ,790-803

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Arvanitis, A.Kalliris, K. (2020) Consistency and moral integrity: A self-determination theory perspective. Journal of Moral Education, 49 (3) ,316-329

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Roth, G., Vansteenkiste, M., Ryan, R. M. (2019) Integrative emotion regulation: Process and development from a self-determination theory perspective. Development and Psychopathology, 31(3) ,945-956

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Benita, M.Kehat, R.Zaba, R.Blumenkranz, Y. (2019) Choosing to regulate emotions: Pursuing emotion goals in autonomy-supportive and controlling contexts. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin,

Shahar, B.Kalman-Halevi, M., Roth, G. (2019) Emotion regulation and intimacy quality: The consequences of emotional integration, emotional distancing, and suppression. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 36 ,3343-3361

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Roth, G., Vansteenkiste, M., Ryan, R. M. (2019) Integrative emotion regulation: Process and development from a self-determination theory perspective. Development and Psychopathology, 31(3) ,945-956

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Assor, A.Feinberg, O., Kanat-Maymon, Y., Kaplan, H. (2018) Reducing violence in non-controlling ways: A change program based on self determination theory. , The Journal of Experimental Education , 86(2) (pp. 195-213) doi: 10.1080/00220973.2016.1277336

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Moller, A. C., Roth, G., Niemiec, C. P., Kanat-Maymon, Y. (2018) Mediators of the associations between parents’ conditional regard and the quality of their adult-children’s peer relationships. Motivation and Emotion, 43 ,35-51

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Nguyen, T. T., Ryan, R. M., Deci, E. L. (2018) Solitude as an approach to affective self-regulation. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 44(1) ,92-106

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Kaplan, H. (2018) Teachers’ autonomy support, autonomy suppression and conditional negative regard as predictors of optimal learning experience among high-achieving Bedouin students. Social Psychology of Education, 21(1) ,223-255

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Vanhalst, J.Luyckx, K.Van Petegem, S., Soenens, B. (2018) The detrimental effects of adolescents’ chronic loneliness on motivation and emotion regulation in social situations. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 47(1) ,162-176

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Roth, G.Shahar, B.-H.Zohar-Shefer, Y., Benita, M. (2018) Benefits of emotional integration and costs of emotional distancing. Journal of Personality, 86(6) ,919-934

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Assor, A. (2018) In Marc H. Bornstein (Ed.), Parental conditional regard. , The Sage Encyclopedia of lifespan human development (pp. 1579-1581) Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc. doi: 10.4135/9781506307633.n591

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Philippe, F. L.Dobbin, A. E.Ross, S.Houle, I. (2018) Resilience facilitates positive emotionality and integration of negative memories in need satisfying memory networks: An experimental study. Journal of Positive Psychology, 13 ,586-596

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Di Domenico, S. I., Ryan, R. M. (2017) Commentary: Primary emotional systems and personality: An evolutionary perspective. Frontiers in Psychology, 8

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Benita, M.Levkovitz, T., Roth, G. (2017) Integrative emotion regulation predicts adolescents’ prosocial behavior through the mediation of empathy. Learning and Instruction, 50 ,14-20

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Roth, G.Shane, N., Kanat-Maymon, Y. (2017) Empathising with the enemy: Emotion regulation and support for humanitarian aid in violent conflicts. Cognition and Emotion, 31(8) ,1511-1524

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Kanat-Maymon, Y.Argaman, Y., Roth, G. (2017) The association between conditional regard and relationship quality: A daily diary study. Personal Relationships, 24 ,27-35

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Otterpohl, N.Keil, A. G., Assor, A.Stiensmeier-Pelster, J. (2017) Erfassung von elterlicher bedingter Wertschätzung im Lern- und Leistungsbereich und im Bereich der Emotionsregulation: Eine deutschsprachige Adaptation der Parental Conditional Regard Scale (PCR-D). [Measuring parental conditional regard in the domains of academics and emotion regulation: A German language adaptation of the Parental Conditional Regard Scale]. Zeitschrift für Entwicklungspsychologie und Pädagogische Psychologie. [Journal of Developmental and Educational Psychology], 49 ,98-111

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Hagenauer, G.Gläser-Zikuda, M.Moschner, B. (2017) University students’ emotions, life-satisfaction and study commitment: a self-determination theoretical perspective. Journal of Further and Higher Education, 42(6) ,808-826

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Ryan, R. M., Deci, E. L., Vansteenkiste, M. (2016) In D. Cicchetti (Ed), Autonomy and autonomy disturbances in self-development and psychopathology: Research on motivation, attachment, and clinical process. , Developmental psychopathology , 1 (pp. 385-438) Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons Inc.

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Roth, G., Kanat-Maymon, Y., Assor, A. (2016) The role of unconditional parental regard in autonomy‐supportive parenting. Journal of Personality, 84(6) ,716-725

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Kanat-Maymon, Y., Roth, G., Assor, A.Raizer, A. (2016) Controlled by Love: The Harmful Relational Consequences of Perceived Conditional Positive Regard. Wiley Periodicals Journal of Personality, 84 ,446-460

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Israeli-Halevi, M., Assor, A., Roth, G. (2015) Using maternal conditional positive regard to promote anxiety suppression in adolescents: A benign strategy?. Parenting: Science and Practice, 15(3) ,187-206

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Brenning, K., Soenens, B.Van Petegem, S., Vansteenkiste, M. (2015) Perceived maternal autonomy support and early adolescent emotion regulation: A longitudinal study. Social Development, 24(3) ,561-578

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Roth, G., Benita, M.Amrani, C.Shachar, B.-H. (2014) Integration of negative emotional experience versus suppression: Addressing the question of adaptive functioning. Emotion, 14(5) ,908-919

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Assor, A., Kanat-Maymon, Y., Roth, G. (2014) In Weinstein, Netta, Parental conditional regard: Psychological costs and antecedents. , Human motivation and interpersonal relationships (pp. 215-237) Netherlands: Springer.

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Verstuyf, J., Vansteenkiste, M., Soenens, B.Boone, L. (2013) Daily Ups and Downs in Women’s Binge Eating Symptoms: The Role of Basic Psychological Needs, General Self-Control, and Emotional Eating. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 32(3) ,335-361

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Roth, G., Assor, A. (2012) The costs of parental pressure to express emotions: Conditional regard and autonomy support as predictors of emotion regulation and intimacy. Journal of Adolescence, 35 ,799–808

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Assor, A.Tal, K. (2012) When parents’ affection depends on child’s achievement: Parental conditional positive regard, self-aggrandizement, shame and coping in adolescents. Journal of Adolescence, 35 ,249–260

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Kanat-Maymon, Y., Roth, G., Assor, A.Reizer, A. (2012) Conditional regard in close relationship. In Mikulincer, M., & Shaver, P. R., Conditional regard in close relationships. , The Social Psychology of Meaning, Morality, and Choice (pp. 235-251) Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. doi: 10.1037/13748-013

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Roth, G., Assor, A. (2012) The cost of parental pressure to express emotions: Conditional regard and autonomy support as predictors of emotion regulation and intimacy. Journal of Adolescence, 35 ,799-808

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Philippe, F. L., Koestner, R.Lecours, S.Beaulieu-Pelletier, G. (2011) The role of autobiographical memory networks in the experience of negative emotions: How our remembered past elicits our current feelings. Emotion, 11 ,1279-1290

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Philippe, F. L., Vallerand, R. J., Houlfort, N.Lavigne, G. L. (2010) Passion for an activity and quality of interpersonal relationships: The mediating role of emotions. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 98(6) ,917-932

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Roth, G., Assor, A. (2010) Parental conditional regard as a predictor of deficiencies in young children’s capacities to respond to sad feelings. Infant and Child Development, 19 ,465-477

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Weinstein, N., Hodgins, H. S. (2009) The moderating role of autonomy and control on the benefits of written emotion expression. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 35(3) ,351-364

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Roth, G., Assor, A., Niemiec, C. P., Ryan, R. M. (2009) The emotional and academic consequences of parental conditional regard: Comparing conditional positive regard, conditional negative regard, and autonomy support as parenting practices. Developmental Psychology, 45(4) ,1119–1142

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Grolnick, W. S. (2009) The role of parents in facilitating autonomous self-regulation for education. Theory and Research in Education, 7(2) ,164-173

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Kashdan, T. B.Mishra, A.Breen, W. E. (2009) Gender differences in gratitude: Examining appraisals, narratives, the willingness to express emotions, and changes in psychological needs. Journal of Personality, 77 ,691-730

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Roth, G. (2008) Perceived parental conditional regard and autonomy support as predictors of young adults’ self- versus other-oriented prosocial tendencies. Journal of Personality, 76 ,513-533

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Assor, A., Roth, G. (2005) The harmful effects of parental conditional regard. Scientific Annals of the psychological Society of Northern Greece, 7 ,17-34

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Ryan, R. M., La Guardia, J. G.Solky-Butzel, J., Chirkov, V. I. (2005) On the interpersonal regulation of emotions: Emotional reliance across gender, relationships, and culture. Personal Relationships, 12 ,146-163

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Assor, A., Roth, G., Deci, E. L. (2004) The emotional costs of perceived parental conditional regard: A self-determination theory analysis. Journal of Personality, 72 ,47-87

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Grolnick, W. S.Kurowski, C. O.McMenamy, J. M.Rivkin, I. (1998) Mothers’ strategies for regulating their toddlers’ distress. Infant Behavior and Development, 21(3) ,437-450

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Ryan, R. M.Plant, R. W.Kuczkowski, R. J. (1991) Relation of self-projection processes to performance, emotion, and memory in a controlled interaction setting. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 17 ,427-434

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