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Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 2014, Vol. 2(1), doi:10.5964/jspp.v2i1.288Received: 2013-11-29. Accepted: 2014-03-18. Published (VoR): 2014-04-11.Handling Editor: Craig McGarty, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Australia*Corresponding author at: Department of Applied Psychology, New York University, Kimball Hall, 246 Greene Street, Rm. 407w, NY 10003, USA. E-mail:[email protected]

This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided theoriginal work is properly cited.

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Journal of Social and Political Psychology2014, Vol. 2(1)doi:10.5964/jspp.v2i1.288

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Journal of Social and Political Psychology2014, Vol. 2(1)doi:10.5964/jspp.v2i1.288

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Journal of Social and Political Psychology2014, Vol. 2(1)doi:10.5964/jspp.v2i1.288

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Journal of Social and Political Psychology2014, Vol. 2(1)doi:10.5964/jspp.v2i1.288

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Journal of Social and Political Psychology2014, Vol. 2(1)doi:10.5964/jspp.v2i1.288

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Journal of Social and Political Psychology2014, Vol. 2(1)doi:10.5964/jspp.v2i1.288

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Journal of Social and Political Psychology2014, Vol. 2(1)doi:10.5964/jspp.v2i1.288

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Journal of Social and Political Psychology2014, Vol. 2(1)doi:10.5964/jspp.v2i1.288

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Journal of Social and Political Psychology2014, Vol. 2(1)doi:10.5964/jspp.v2i1.288