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WORK TITLE: DNA Is Not Destiny
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CITY: Vancouver
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PERSONAL
Male.
EDUCATION:University of Alberta, B.A., 1984; University of British Columbia, M.A., 1993, Ph.D., 1996.
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CAREER
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, assistant professor of psychology, 1997-2000; University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, assistant professor, 2000-02, associate professor, 2002-07, professor of psychology, 2007—, Distinguished University Scholar.
Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan, visiting researcher, 1995-96; Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, visiting researcher, 1996-97; Tokyo University, Tokyo, Japan, visiting researcher, 2000.
MEMBER:Society of Experimental Social Psychology.
AWARDS:Distinguished Scientist Early Career Award for Social Psychology, American Psychological Association, 2003; Alumni Award for Research in the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, 2005; Career Trajectory Award, Society of Experimental Social Psychology, 2011; Royal Society of Canada, fellow, 2016.
WRITINGS
Has contributed articles to scholarly journals and chapters to books.
SIDELIGHTS
Steven J. Heine is professor of psychology and Distinguished University Scholar at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. He studies the ways in which we are culturally programmed to interpret certain types of information—especially scientific (and specifically genetic) information. He is the author of Cultural Psychology, the first textbook on the subject designed for undergraduates. “Heine emphasizes experimental research, as well as observation studies and ethnographies,” said a Reference & Research Book News contributor. The appearance of Cultural Psychology, wrote a contributor to Reference & Research Book News, reviewing the second edition of the text, “made it feasible for educators to teach the subject to larger, lecture-style undergraduate classes.”
In DNA Is Not Destiny: The Remarkable, Completely Misunderstood Relationship between You and Your Genes, Heine looks at the way in which the cataloguing and interpretation of the human genome has transformed our essential understanding of human relations and the impact of inherited traits. “The genomic revolution promises to completely upend our understanding of the world,” the author wrote in the introduction to DNA Is Not Destiny. “And with the advent of direct-to-consumer genetic testing companies, such as 23andMe, you can now affordably get yourself genotyped. What will you do when you learn about the genetic secrets of your own life? My bet is that you’re going to respond in all the wrong ways.” “This is not because of any specific genes that you might learn about, but because of the psychological machinery in your brain which influences how you think about genes.” “He argues [that] genetics itself cannot fully explain why people grow taller when their diets improve,” stated a Kirkus Reviews contributor, “or why people raised by affluent adopted parents score higher on IQ tests than their less affluent peers.”
An important part of Heine’s research centers on the ways genes influence people—and the ways people think genes influence them, even if there is no evidence for any genetic impact. The university’s research into “genetic essentialism,” explained a contributor to the University of British Columbia website, “considers how people understand essences and genetic foundations for human behavior. We propose that encounters with genetic explanations for human outcomes prompts people to think of those outcomes in essentialized ways, by viewing those outcomes as more deterministic, immutable, and fatalistic.” The research, said the contributor to the University of British Columbia website, documents and tries to explain “the ways that people respond to genetic accounts for human conditions.”
Heine’s conclusions in DNA Is Not Destiny are based in part on research he performed with groups of test subjects. Some time before he wrote the book, said Jonathan Weiner in a review for the Washington Post Book World, “Heine conducted an experiment with a group of Canadian university students. … Heine had the students come to the lab and read a few newspaper articles. One group read an article about ‘obesity genes.’ The message: Your genes control your weight. A second group read an article about eating and social pressures. The message there: How much your friends weigh affects your weight. A third group read an unrelated article about the agricultural production of corn. Later, each student was asked to sample a bowl of cookies. The ones who’d read about obesity genes ate the most cookies.” The conclusion Heine’s study reached was that people believed that genes were a form of destiny and that certain aspects of their future were ruled by circumstances over which they had no control. “This,” concluded a Publishers Weekly reviewer, “is an enjoyable and informative, if uneven, discussion of the role genes play in our everyday lives.”
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BOOKS
Heine, Steven J., DNA Is Not Destiny: The Remarkable, Completely Misunderstood Relationship between You and Your Genes, W.W. Norton (New York, NY), 2017.
PERIODICALS
Kirkus Reviews, March 15, 2017, review of DNA Is Not Destiny.
Publishers Weekly, February 13, 2017, review of DNA Is Not Destiny, p. 63.
Reference & Research Book News, November, 2007, review of Cultural Psychology; February, 2012, review of Cultural Psychology.
Washington Post Book World, May 26, 2017, Jonathan Weiner, review of DNA Is Not Destiny.
ONLINE
University of British Columbia Website, http://www2.psych.ubc.ca/ (February 14, 2018), author profile.
W.W. Norton Website, http://books.wwnorton.com/ (February 14, 2018), author profile.
Steven J. Heine
Professional Experience:
Professor, Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, 2007-
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, 2002 - 2007
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, 2000 - 2002
Visiting Researcher, Tokyo University, Tokyo, Japan, 2000
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, 1997 - 2000
Visiting Researcher, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, 1996 - 1997
Visiting Researcher, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan, 1995 - 1996
Education:
Ph.D. in Psychology (Social), University of British Columbia, 1993 - 1996
Dissertation Title: Culture and the need for positive self-regard: The Japanese case.
M.A. in Psychology (Social), University of British Columbia, 1991 - 1993
Thesis Title: Cultural variation in unrealistic optimism.
B.A. in Psychology (Minor in Japanese), University of Alberta, 1984 - 1989
Awards:
Elected Fellow, Royal Society of Canada, 2016
Invitation Fellowship for Research in Japan, Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science, 2012
Career Trajectory Award, Society of Experimental Social Psychology, 2011
Elected Fellow, Association for Psychological Science, 2009
Elected Fellow, Society for Social and Personality Psychology, 2008
News Story of the Year, UBC "Year in Headlines", for "Dar-Nimrod & Heine, Science", 2007
UBC Killam Research Fellowship, 2007
UBC Killam Research Prize, 2006
UBC Alumni Award for Research in the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, 2005
Distinguished University Scholar, UBC, 2004
Finalist, Otto Klineberg Award, SPSSI, 2003
Distinguished Scientist Early Career Award for Social Psychology, American Psychological Association, 2003
Early Career Award, International Society of Self and Identity, 2002
Member, Society of Experimental Social Psychology, 2001
Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies Early Career Scholars Program, 2001
Japan Foundation Research Fellowship, 2000
Hosei University International Foreign Scholars Fellowship, 2000 (declined)
2nd place, Society for Experimental Social Psychology Dissertation Award, 1997
Morris Belkin Dissertation Prize, University of British Columbia, 1997
Japanese Ministry of Education Grant In-Aid, 1996
Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science, 1996
Post-Doctoral Fellowship, SSHRC Canada, 1996
Japan Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, 1995
Japanese Ministry of Education Research Student Fellowship, 1995 (declined)
Doctoral Fellowship, SSHRC Canada, 1994
Department of Psychology Teaching Assistant Award, University of British Columbia, 1994
University Graduate Fellowship, UBC, 1992, 1994 (declined)
Grants:
SSHRC Grant (PI), “Genetic Essentialism: Understanding the Impact of Genetic Attributions on People's Worldviews,” 2014-2019, ($209,900)
SSHRC Grant, “Self-enhancement and well-being across cultures.” 2011-2014, ($135,680)
SSHRC Grant, "Is there a sensitive window for the acquisition of culture?" 2008-2011. ($143,000)
Hampton Research Endowment Fund. "What's special about genetic thinking?" 2008-2010. ($48,500)
SSHRC Grant, “Personality Utility across Cultures.” 2004-2007, ($122,000)
APA Conference Grant. “Mind, Culture, and Evolution: 1st UBC Summer Symposium.” 2004, ($20,000 USD)
SPSSI Grant-in-Aid, “Mind, body, and the experience of emotion: A cross-cultural comparison.” 2002-2003, ($2000 USD)
SSHRC Grant, “Meaning maintenance: An integration of terror management, belongingness, and cultural psychological perspectives on self-esteem.” 2001-2004, ($70,000)
NIMH R01 Grant, “A cultural investigation of self-improving motivations,” 2001-2006 ($300,000 USD)
University Research Foundation Grant, University of Pennsylvania, 1999 ($15,000)
Course Development Grant, Center for East Asian Studies, Penn, 1999 ($3000)
Steven J. Heine is Distinguished University Scholar and Professor of Social and Cultural Psychology at the University of British Columbia and author of Cultural Psychology, the top-selling textbook in the field. In 2016, he was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
Research Description
Our lab is currently working on three distinct research programs, which we refer to as Cultural Psychology, Meaning Maintenance, and Genetic Essentialism.
First, we are interested in questions about culture and human nature in psychology. What psychological processes are universal to all, and what processes are largely limited to certain cultural groups? Knowing the answer to these questions greatly informs our understanding of the nature and function of these processes. Much of our research has focused on investigations of Japanese and North Americans, the two cultures with which I have the most experience. For example, we have explored how, in contrast to North American self-enhancing motivations, where individuals focus on how good they are, Japanese seem better characterized as demonstrating self-improving motivations and focus on how they are not doing good enough. Self-enhancing motivations serve the maintenance of self-esteem, whereas self-improving motivations serve face-maintenance. We are currently investigating a variety of other topics in cultural psychology, such as whether there are sensitive windows in people's development in which they are most receptive to learning cultural meaning systems.
Our second research program explores how people strive to maintain a sense of meaning in their lives when they encounter anomalies which they are unable to make any sense of. We propose a “meaning maintenance model” in which people continually strive to preserve a functioning meaning framework. When people encounter a threat to their meaning, be it through a self-esteem threat, feelings of uncertainty, mortality salience, or witnessing a scene that does not make sense, they need to regain a sense of meaning. Often people will reaffirm an independent meaning framework in their efforts to regain meaning. We are conducting a number of different studies in which we explore the various ways that people respond to a diverse array of threats to meaning. For example, we have found that when people witness something that is odds with their meaning frameworks, such as interacting with an experimenter who is surreptiously switched on them midway through the study, playing cards with a deck that includes reverse-colored cards, reading an absurd Kafka story, or contemplating the unresolved inconsistencies in their own lives, they respond by affirming their commitment to other meaning frameworks that remain intact. That is, they become more patriotic, they are more willing to defend the status quo,and they desire more meaning in their lives. Further, we find that when people are not provided with an alternative framework to affirm they will seek out new frameworks instead, and will abstract patterns from noise.
Our third research program on genetic esssentialism considers how people understand essences and genetic foundations for human behavior. We propose that encounters with genetic explanations for human outcomes prompts people to think of those outcomes in essentiialized ways, by viewing those outcomes as more deterministic, immutable, and fatalistic. For example, we find that women are more vulnerable to stereotype threat when they hear of genetic reasons for why men outperform women in math than when they hear of environmental reasons for this difference. We also find that men are more tolerant of sex crimes when they learn of genetic basis for sexual motivations than when they hear of social-constructivist accounts. We are conducting several studies to explore the ways that people respond to genetic accounts for human conditions.
Book World: Is our fate locked in our genes?
Jonathan Weiner
The Washington Post. (May 26, 2017): News:
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DNA Is Not Destiny: The Remarkable, Completely Misunderstood Relationship Between You and Your Genes
By Steven J. Heine
Norton. 344 pp. $26.95
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The Gene Machine: How Genetic Technologies Are Changing the Way We Have Kids - and the Kids We Have
By Bonnie Rochman
Scientific American/Farrar Straus Giroux. 272 pp. $26
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Here are two new books vying for our attention, "The Gene Machine" and "DNA Is Not Destiny." One title is crying (BEGIN ITAL)Yes(END ITAL), genes are everything! We are our genes! and the other (BEGIN ITAL)No(END ITAL), we can go beyond them!
Yes and No have been tangled in this subject forever. After Charles Darwin published "On the Origin of Species" in 1859, he got a fan letter from his cousin Francis Galton. Galton asked Darwin if he'd agree that the number of geniuses in their family (here Galton was pleased to include himself) suggested the power of inheritance. Darwin wrote back modestly that he thought his own contributions, whatever they might be, came from hard work. (His personal motto was, "It's dogged as does it.") Ah, Galton replied, but surely the capacity for hard work runs in families, too.
In 1889, 30 years after "On the Origin of Species," Galton published a book called "Natural Inheritance," one of the primordial Yes books. There he declared that a gift for hard work or for "the Artistic faculty" is manifestly hereditary. Galton wrote, "A man must be very crotchety or very ignorant, who nowadays seriously doubts the inheritance either of this or of any other faculty."
Galton dreamed of breeding better human beings through a program he called eugenics, from the Greek for "well born." The program became so popular in this country that it led to a vogue for the baby name "Eugene." But it also led to sterilization initiatives here, which, in turn, helped inspire the Holocaust.
Today we know a fantastic amount about the power of inheritance, but in some ways we're still caught between Yes and No. Fourteen years ago, the National Institutes of Health and a consortium of other research groups around the world announced that they had finished reading the complete sequence of 3 billion letters that are written in the scroll of human DNA. The effort had cost a few billion dollars and a vast amount of time in collective person-hours: the equivalent of a single monkish scientist reading and copying the scroll for thousands of years. Now the job of reading DNA has been turbocharged. It can be done for about $1,000 and takes just a couple of days. Meanwhile, the parents of many of those babies know as little about inheritance as Galton did in 1859. Some of them have never heard of genes. How much should new parents be told about what is written there?
If you have a single typo in those 3 billion letters of your scroll of the human genetic code - if, say, at a certain point on Chromosome 2, you don't have a G but an A - then every time you bruise your thigh, your body will repair your thigh muscle with bone. Eventually your entire body will be encased in bone, like a suit of armor or an ant's exoskeleton. A single typo produces this condition, fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva, which is extremely rare.
That's how most of us think of our inheritance. We imagine that, for better or worse, each bit of genetic material decides our fates. And that's more or less how Galton thought of it, too. But cases like these are highly unusual, as Steven J. Heine reminds us in "DNA Is Not Destiny." Of all genetic diseases, only about 2 percent are caused by a single gene, like fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva. Instead, most such diseases are caused by vast webs of genes - sometimes thousands and thousands of genes - working or blundering together with our experience, our environment. And of course we may carry the genes for most of these genetic diseases without the diseases showing up at all.
It's the same story not only with diseases but with almost any trait you can think of. Height, intelligence, creativity, willpower: They're all shaped by vast webs of innumerable interactions between genes and environment, inheritance and experience, interactions that have hardly begun to be explored.
Heine is a psychologist at the University of British Columbia, and he's interested in the reasons that people are so easily overimpressed by genetic test results. Whatever we know or don't know about this subject, he says, "we are psychologically equipped to (BEGIN ITAL)misunderstand(END ITAL) it." We like what one sociologist has called the OGOD framework - One Gene, One Disease.
A few years ago, Heine conducted an experiment with a group of Canadian university students. Most psychology studies are done with university students, making for a highly biased sample of the world's population, which Heine and a few colleagues have termed WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich and Democratic).
Heine had the students come to the lab and read a few newspaper articles. One group read an article about "obesity genes." The message: Your genes control your weight. A second group read an article about eating and social pressures. The message there: How much your friends weigh affects your weight. A third group read an unrelated article about the agricultural production of corn. Later, each student was asked to sample a bowl of cookies. The ones who'd read about obesity genes ate the most cookies.
This helps explain why we have so much trouble getting DNA in any kind of stable perspective. We confuse it with fate, as Heine says. We imagine that whatever is written in our genes is all-powerful, unchangeable, somehow of the essence. And we want to think this way. We like to think this way. It serves certain purposes to think this way, as a headline from the Onion suggests: "Obesity caused entirely by genes, obese researchers find."
The NIH is exploring the idea of sequencing the DNA of every newborn baby in the United States. There are many good arguments for and against. But unlike the reading of the DNA scroll, explicating the contents can't easily be automated. Who is going to explain all of this to parent after parent as the science keeps racing ahead? Bonnie Rochman, a science journalist, explores the current scene in "The Gene Machine," which, in spite of its title, is poised neatly between Yes and No.
We already do badly at the end of life. We don't want to do badly at the beginning, too. At the end, all we want is a good death at home, and that's not what most of us get. At the beginning, all we want is a healthy baby. We don't want the iatrogenic gift of extra nervousness. As Rochman puts it (she sometimes has a mix-and-match approach to metaphors), "Will it heighten the anxieties of already hyper-anxious helicopter moms and dads, always waiting for the genetic shoe to drop?" Soon all those helicopter parents may be waiting for the helicopter stork.
And of course genetic testing is an issue not only at the beginning but at the other end, too. As I wrote this piece, two colleagues of mine at Columbia published a paper announcing that they have found an association between a gene called TMEM106B and a sudden decline of the brain at the age of 65. If you have two bad copies of this gene, you're more likely to go into that accelerated decline.
Well, maybe that's true and maybe not. This is only a first study. But I'm 63. It would be easy to find out if I have that gene. Do I want to know?
No.
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Weiner is the author of "The Beak of the Finch," which won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction, and "Time, Love, Memory," among other books. He teaches at Columbia Journalism School.
Heine, Steven J.: DNA IS NOT DESTINY
Kirkus Reviews.
(Mar. 15, 2017):
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Does the human genome include a thread for the likelihood of falling for hype? If it does, then it would be
fine vindication for this sharp book on the limitations of genetics in understanding what makes us tick.What
makes people tall? What makes people smart? What makes some people more likely to develop breast
cancer than others? The common shorthand these days would be to lay blame or responsibility, depending
on the matter at hand, on one's genetic makeup. However, as Heine (Social and Cultural Psychology/Univ.
of British Columbia; Cultural Psychology, 2007) writes, that's a two-edged sword of an answer, for while
understanding genetic issues has led to some moments of detente in the culture wars--e.g., acceptance of
homosexuality as an expression of biology--it is also not necessarily complete. For instance, he argues,
genetics itself cannot fully explain why people grow taller when their diets improve or why people raised by
affluent adopted parents score higher on IQ tests than their less affluent peers. Such issues can be thorny,
and to his credit, Heine does not shy away from them even as he takes on the popularity of consumer-level
genomics to predict the propensity for disease, which he reckons to be about as accurate as "the fortuneteller
down the street, and at least she isn't claiming any scientific foundation to her predictions." The author
is generally affable, but he also is impatient with pseudo-science; he writes, for instance, that the more
people actually know of genetics the less likely they are to be worried about genetically modified food,
while terms such as the "breast cancer gene" or the "height gene" are worse than misnomers, since many
more genes than one are implicated. To increase a baby's height, by Heine's reckoning, you would need to
effect "almost 300,000 genetic alterations to the embryo, and you would still only be halfway there." An
accessible contribution to what the author calls "genetic literacy" and a satisfyingly hard-edged work of
popular science.
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DNA is Not Destiny: The Remarkable,
Completely Misunderstood Relationship
Between You and Your Genes
Publishers Weekly.
264.7 (Feb. 13, 2017): p63.
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DNA Is Not Destiny: The Remarkable, Completely Misunderstood Relationship Between You and Your
Genes
Steven J. Heine. Norton, $26.95 (336p)
ISBN 978-0-393-24408-3
Heine, a professor of psychology at the University of British Columbia, explores the "psychological biases"
that prevent people from thinking effectively about the implications of breakthroughs in genetics. He makes
the case that far too many people hold the "belief that our genes control our lives," adding, We are genetic
fatalists." Heine tasks himself with educating his audience about the errors inherent in this perspective
because "people with greater understanding about genetics are less likely to agree that genes determine life
outcomes, less likely to subscribe to eugenic beliefs, and are in general less racist and less sexist." He makes
three straightforward and interconnected points: that there is rarely a one-to-one correspondence between a
gene and a behavior; that people assume that an individual's genes define the essence of their being; and
that the public is breathtakingly ignorant about genetics in general. Heine ranges broadly, discussing both
historical and ethical concerns, and draws heavily on social psychology research to investigate how people's
beliefs about the power of genes influence their behavior. Heine also makes a strident critique of the directto-consumer
genetic testing industry and a robust defense of most genetically modified organisms. This is
an enjoyable and informative, if uneven, discussion of the role genes play in our everyday lives. (Apr.)
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"DNA is Not Destiny: The Remarkable, Completely Misunderstood Relationship Between You and Your
Genes." Publishers Weekly, 13 Feb. 2017, p. 63. General OneFile,
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Cultural psychology, 2d ed
Reference & Research Book News.
27.1 (Feb. 2012):
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Cultural psychology, 2d ed.
Heine, Steven J.
W.W. Norton
2012
567 pages
$75.00
Paperback
GN502
As the first undergraduate textbook to provide a broad-based global treatment of the field of cultural
psychology, Heine's (social and cultural psychology, U. of British Columbia, Canada) 2008 publication
made it feasible for educators to teach the subject to larger, lecture-style undergraduate classes. The second
edition continues to explore key questions in the field, such as the degree of similarity of the psychologies
of people from different cultures, where culture comes from, similarities and differences between humans
and animals, and the many different ways to be human. Each chapter also explores two new themes:
experiences that shape psychology and whether a given tendency is universal or specific to a particular
culture. The second edition also features a new introductory chapter examining the importance of
psychologists studying the role that culture plays in our lives, and "Physical Health" and "Mental Health"
now appear as two separate and expanded chapters.
([c]2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR)
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Cultural psychology
Reference & Research Book News.
22.4 (Nov. 2007):
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Cultural psychology.
Heine, Steven J.
W.W. Norton
2008
545 pages
$45.00
Paperback
GN502
Heine (psychology, U. of British Columbia, Canada) provides a text for undergraduate students that
examines culture and psychology. Following discussions of human nature, cultural evolution, and methods
for studying culture and psychology, chapters are thematic and focus on development and socialization, self
and personality, motivation, morality, religion, and justice, emotions, cognition and perception, mental and
physical health, and interpersonal attraction, close relationships, and groups, with a closing chapter on
living in multicultural worlds. Research findings from every populated continent are included, and Heine
emphasizes experimental research, as well as observation studies and ethnographies. He also explores the
role of culture across many disciplines of psychology and other fields. Both subject and name indexes are
provided.
([c]20072005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR)
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Edition)
"Cultural psychology." Reference & Research Book News, Nov. 2007. General OneFile,
http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/A172604686/ITOF?u=schlager&sid=ITOF&xid=b3e563cd.
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