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UWE HENTSCHEL

University of Leiden, The Netherlands

NANA SUMBADZE AND SOPHIA SHUBLADZE

University of Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia

Uwe Hentschel, University of Leiden, The Netherlands, and Nana Sumbadze and Sophia Shubladze, University of Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia.

Thanks are due to reviewers including: Dr. Catrien Bijleveld, WODC Department of Research, Den Haag, The Netherlands, and Dr Juris G. Dragons, Professor Emeritus of Psychology, The Pennsylvania State University, USA for their valuable comments, and to Stanislava Smovsh for her assistance with a Russian article referred to in the text.