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  1. Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK

    Tom Booth & Alex Doumas

  2. Violence Research Centre, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

    Aja Louise Murray

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  1. Oakland University, Rochester, USA

    Virgil Zeigler-Hill

  2. Oakland University, Rochester, USA

    Todd K. Shackelford

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  1. Humboldt University, Germany, Berlin, Germany

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Booth, T., Doumas, A., Murray, A.L. (2017). Null Hypothesis. In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Shackelford, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_1335-1

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