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Dr Marcelo Suarez-Orozco is from the Department of Anthropology at the University of California at San Diego.
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Professor Ivan Robertson and colleagues are from the Institute of Science and Technology at the University of Manchester, UK.
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S. Juan, ‘What type of person is accident-prone?’, The Register, 20 October 2006.
Dr Dale Larson is from Santa Clara University and Dr R.L. Chastain is from Samuel Merritt College in Oakland, California.
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Dr Steven Stack is a psychologist at Wayne State University in Detroit.
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Drs S. Izumi, A. Suyama and K. Koyama are from the Radiation Eff ects Research Foundation in Hiroshima.
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Dr Troy Case is from the Department of Anthropology at North Carolina State University in Raleigh.
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Dr David Lester is a professor of psychology at the Richard Stockton College in Pomona, New Jersey.
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Dr T. Bernstein is from the Wallace-Kettering Neuroscience Institute at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio.
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