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31 V. Saroglou, “Religiousness, Religious Fundamentalism, and Quest as Predictors of Humor Creation,” International Journal for the Psychology of Religion 12 (2002): 177-188.
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13 J. Trinkaus, “Compliance With the Item Limit of the Food Supermarket Express Checkout Lane: Another Look,” Psychological Reports 91 (2002): 1057-1058.
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15 J. Trinkaus, “Stop Sign Compliance: An Informal Look,” Psychological Reports 89 (1999): 1193-1194.
16 J. Trinkaus, “Blocking the Box: An Informal Look,” Psychological Reports 89 (2001): 315-316.
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29 A. Huston et al., Big World, Small Screen: The Role of Television in American Society (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1992).
30 S. Milgram, “The Lost-Letter Technique,” Psychology Today 3, no. 3 (1969): 32-33, 66, 68.
31 F. S. Bridges and P. C. Thompson, “Impeachment Affiliation and Levels of Response to Lost Letters,” Psychological Reports 84 (1999): 828-831.
32 B. J. Bushman and A. M. Bonacci, “You’ve Got Mail: Using E-Mail to Examine the Effect of Prejudiced Attitudes on Discrimination Against Arabs,” Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 40 (2004): 753-759.
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36 R. V. Levine et al., “Helping in 36 US Cities,” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 67 (1994): 69-81.
37 R. V. Levine, A. Norenzayan, and K. Philbrick, “Cross-Cultural Differences in Helping Strangers,” Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology 32 (2001): 543-560.
38 S. Milgram, “The Experience of Living in Cities,” Science 167 (1970): 1461-1468.
39 R. V. Levine and A. Norenzayan, “The Pace of Life in 31 Countries,” Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology 30 (1999): 178-205.
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41 J.A.M. Farver et al., “Toy Stories: Aggression in Children’s Narratives in the United States, Sweden, Germany, and Indonesia,” Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology 28, no. 4 (1997): 393-420.
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