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This research was supported by a grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada to Mary L. Courage (418206).
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Courage, M.L. (2016). Distractibility. 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_1066-1
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