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Levine 2014: intervention class 28 students, 19 consented; comparison class 29, 18 consented. S8 first page: 'any form to anyone is expressly forbidden. Terms & ... Downloaded by [Northwestern University] at 19:56 26 May 2015' with Taylor & Francis conditions link. S9: 'Copyright © 2015 Pelletier and Beatty. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY).' Bounded negative (no reader-agreement-on-theme measure) not independently re-searched beyond the excerpts. 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