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Cialdini and Carnegie: Six principles of persuasion in psychology

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Capital gains taxation and the Revenue Reconciliation Act of 2010

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Pathologizing anxiety: when subjective distress indicates mental disorder

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China Candid: insider perspectives on modern China's contradictions

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