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Rona Abramovitch, Jonathan L. Freedman, Kirby Thoden, Crystal Nikolich, Children's Capacity to Consent to Participation in Psychological Research: Empirical Findings, Child Development, Vol. 62, No. 5 (Oct., 1991), pp. 1100-1109
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