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    Linus Chan, James D. McFarland & Lucian Gideon Conway III

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Chan, L., McFarland, J.D. & Conway, L.G. Political Contamination of Social Psychology: A Review of Crawford and Jussim’s (2017) Edited Book on The Politics of Social Psychology. Soc Just Res 31, 323–333 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11211-018-0312-y

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