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Steven A. Lewis, Charles J. Langan, Edwin P. Hollander, Expectation of Future Interaction and the Choice of Less Desirable Alternatives in Conformity, Sociometry, Vol. 35, No. 3 (Sep., 1972), pp. 440-447
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