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An Informative Failure to Replicate—the Type D is Distressed: a Comment on Meyer et al.

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Suls, J. An Informative Failure to Replicate—the Type D is Distressed: a Comment on Meyer et al.. ann. behav. med. 48, 140–141 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12160-014-9628-5

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