Henderikus J. Stam

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  • Ph.D.
  • Professor Emeritus at University of Calgary

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July 1982 - June 2020
University of Calgary
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This chapter is about Linschoten’s life. After a Timeline (Sect. 4.1), we introduce Linschoten as a young boy and his family background, including the period that he lived in the Dutch Indies and was interned in a Japanese camp (Sect. 4.2). After his return to the Netherlands (Sect 4.3), we focus on the start of his academic career as a student and...
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Linschoten’s death complicated the reactions to his work, especially to his Idolen van de Psycholoog (Idols of the Psychologist). In this chapter, we concentrate on the responses to his work, considering the context. Due to its controversial, if not contentious, communication, Idolen figures primarily within the reactions. In Sect. 10.1 we begin wi...
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In this chapter, we discuss how phenomenology developed in Germany and Austria from the idea of psychology as the foundation of all sciences, including logic and philosophy, into an anti-psychologism. Phenomenology eventually emerged in multiple varieties (Sect. 2.1), two of which, transcendental phenomenology of Husserl and the phenomenology of es...
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After a brief introduction (Sect. 8.1), we discuss the documents and articles Linschoten wrote before he published his last book. We look at the extensive typescripts of the lectures he provided after becoming the successor to Buytendijk (Sect. 8.2) and what he published as a prelude to his Idolen: an article on actual genesis (Aktualgenese) (Sect....
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This chapter focuses on Linschoten’s study of the psychology of William James. Following an introductory section (Sect. 7.1), we present our reconstruction of the development in Linschoten’s thought that led to this volume, using the texts of lectures on Husserl’s work that Linschoten inherited and modified from Buytendijk (Sect. 7.2) and Linschote...
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A conclusion regarding Linschoten’s short life should contain a retrospective summary of his achievements and position within the history of psychology and some discussion of where Linschoten’s scholarly work would have gone had he lived longer. In this final chapter, we briefly look at the notes, concepts for books, fiction, and other matters in h...
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In this chapter, our focus is on the posthumously published, and for some, controversial, Idolen van de Psycholoog (Idols of the Psychologist). In the Introduction (Sect. 9.1), we discuss the intriguing imagery Linschoten used in the frontispiece of his book. In Sect. 9.2, we take a closer look at his discussion of accountability, the chapter with...
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In this chapter, we look back at Linschoten’s early academic activities until such time as he became a professor. After a brief introduction (Sect. 5.1), we focus on the period during which he studied psychology, and conducted and published experimental work, even before he had finished his studies (Sect. 5.2). In Sect. 5.3, we follow his contribut...
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In this chapter we focus on Utrecht University’s new department of psychology in the period before World War II (Sect. 3.1), in the 1930s, and during World War II (Sect. 3.2), as well as how the subfaculty of psychology developed after World War II (Sect. 3.3). We then focus on whether there was one or there were two Utrecht Schools (psychology and...
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Heinz Streib’s appeal for a wisdom that takes seriously the deep problem of “the other” is not only profound but timely. In my comments I ask if this question might even benefit from a research agenda or if that is a distraction and then I suggest an additional point of view, based on the work of the late John Shotter, that might assist us in under...
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From 1929 until 1972, the Alberta Eugenics Board (the Board) recommended that 4,739 individuals be sterilized. The original 1928 act that legalized eugenic sterilization stipulated that the surgery itself required the consent of the individual or their caregiver; however, in 1937, the Alberta government removed the consent requirement for such case...
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The current corona crisis is one of a continuing set of crises of global disparities, local inequalities, and destructive environmental policies and practices. Psychology offers to help but instead finds ways in which it insinuates itself into relations of the dominant elites and necropolitics that support its proliferation of ideologies at the roo...
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Eating is situated within a context of politicized issues, such as environmental problems and health concerns; as a result, food talk is imbued with dilemmas. This study explores how twenty-sixundergraduate students negotiate dilemmas around food and position themselves in relation to their eating practices, using Potter and Wetherell’s tradition o...
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As Theory & Psychology has reached its 30th anniversary I reflect on the state of the discipline and the state of theory. I argue that we need good theory (in its broadest sense) more than ever, not only because of its role in psychology’s critical wing but also because of the requirement to continually regenerate theory if it is to be useful and r...
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Three issues that are raised by Smedslund’s psychologic are addressed in this chapter: First, the analytic-synthetic distinction, although briefly addressed by Smedslund himself, has not been thoroughly appreciated. I argue that it is crucial to understanding a project like the psychologic. Second, I place Smedslund’s work in a historical perspecti...
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Critics of neuroscientific developments in psychology have emphasized the reductionist impulse underlying these advances and their adherence to a mereological fallacy wherein powers are attributed to brains when these can only be ascribed to persons as a whole. These critiques among others, while important, miss the crucial features of a neuroscien...
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This article analyzes variations in subject perceptions of pain in Milgram’s obedience experiments and their behavioral consequences. Based on an unpublished study by Milgram’s assistant, Taketo Murata, we report the relationship between the subjects’ belief that the learner was actually receiving painful electric shocks and their choice of shock l...
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In recent decades, migration scholars have challenged reified categories of 'illegal'migrants and observed migrant 'illegalization' and deportability as exploitative sociopolitical processes. Yet, in the move away from studying 'undocumented migrants' as distinct epistemic subjects,we argue that scholars have lost sight ofmigrants as agents. Conseq...
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Three Canadian colleagues in health psychology recount their careers in a field of research and practice whose birth they witnessed and whose developments they have critiqued. By placing the development of health psychology in Canada in a context that is both institutional and personal, Stam, Murray, and Lubek raise a series of questions about heal...
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Being the closing words of the retiring editor, this constitutes a tripartite reflection on 26 years at the helm of a journal that has continued to thrive in a vast discipline oriented in other ways. First, theory as a problem, orientation, and aim has evolved in the interval, while continuing to carry the weight of critique and renewal. Second, jo...
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Theory in psychology is notoriously ahistorical in its formal expression, mimicking a version of the established sciences. The nature of human psychological phenomena however belies this ahistorical stance. Psychological “objects” are deeply embedded in historical and social norms. As historians of the discipline have reminded us so often, they are...
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Research has generated considerable knowledge about the prevalence, nature, and consequences of abuse of women by their male partners. Specifying what constitutes intimate partner violence (IPV) is still controversial however (e.g. Adams, Sullivan, Bybee, & Greeson, 2008; Fawole, 2008; Follingstad & Bush, 2014; Hines & Malley-Morrison, 2001; Johnso...
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Using articles published in this journal by Brown, McHoul and Rapley in 2001 and Middleton and Lightfoot, also in 2001, we use ethnomethodology as a pretext for discussing the foundation of cultural psychology on the admittedly difficult notion of everyday life and people’s methods in negotiating that life. The social ordering of what Garfinkel ter...
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The search for a so-called unified or integrated theory has long served as a goal for some psychologists, even if the search is often implicit. But if the established sciences do not have an explicitly unified set of theories, then why should psychology? After examining this question again I argue that psychology is in fact reasonably unified aroun...
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Whereas cross-cultural psychology and cultural psychology have been distinguished as separate projects for decades, talk about their possible collaboration is becoming increasingly common. Several scholars have described their differences as essentially non-oppositional and the latest Handbook of Cultural Psychology combines articles from both rese...
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Psychological claims concerning human activity, character, deviance, and life are thoroughly embedded in the practices of contemporary social worlds. Originating in ordinary language, psychological terms circulate not merely as science but also as history, making such claims historical artifacts about what kind of beings we are, and most important,...
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In 1946, Walter Freeman introduced the transorbital ice pick lobotomy. Touted as a procedure that could be learned and subsequently performed by psychiatrists outside of the operating room, the technique was quickly criticized by neurosurgeons. In this article, we take a material culture approach to consider 2 grounds upon which neurosurgeons based...
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Eastern-inspired concepts of mindfulness, compassion, and acceptance have become widely recognized in mainstream psychological research, especially within applied fields such as clinical and counseling psychology. Within this context it is reasonable to question whether Eastern ideas can also inform dialogical self theory. The question is apposite...
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Papanicolaou argues that there is an isomorphism between our perceptions of the world and the structure of the world. Daring as this hypothesis is, I argue that it is not possible to know this to be the case and that it is premised on epistemological individualism, a thesis itself replete with problems.
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The history of psychosurgery is most often recounted as a narrative wherein Portuguese and American physicians play the leading role. It is a traditional narrative in which the United States and, at times, Portugal are central in the development and spread of psychosurgery. Here we largely abandon the archetypal narrative and provide one of the fir...
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In the complicated relationship between early 20th-century feminism and eugenics, Western Canada in general and the Province of Alberta in particular provide a unique case study on the history and practice of the sterilization of the “feeble-minded.” While feminism strove to enable women to control their own reproductive capacities, eugenics attemp...
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Abstract: We discuss the status of theories in psychology by addressing ourselves to a recent paper published in this journal by Hong, Chao, Yang & Rosner (2010). We argue that Hong et al. provided a restrictive version of theory in psychology that is limited by the implicit adoption of logical empiricism as the basis for their views of theory. In...
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For a theoretical psychology A theoretical psychology is an oddity in the discipline because psychology has championed the place of theory, at least in so far as theory has been understood in its neo-behaviorist, cognitivist, empiricist and functionalist conceptions. On this count theory is important for describing relations between statistical and...
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In contrast to the abundance of research on women victims, this article sheds light on the discourse of men who are self-identified as victims of their female partners' abuse. The purpose of this study was to investigate the most salient identity constructions and abuse conceptualizations among participants of group psychotherapy for men who have b...
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Reviews the book, The Cambridge companion to Dewey edited by Molly Cochran (see record 2010-21148-000 ). John Dewey is mostly known among psychologists as the author of an article written in 1896 titled “The Reflex Arc Concept in Psychology.” Dewey’s article is seen as an important milestone in the history of psychology even though it is, perhaps,...
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As we have reached a full 20 years of publication I take the opportunity to review developments in the last decade and look forward to potentially new movements both within and on the boundaries of psychology. Here I discuss the most pressing issues that have found their way into Theory & Psychology as well as promoting the epistemological and theo...
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Schwarz is right to question the methodological foundations of much of contemporary personality research. I argue that he does not go far enough, opting instead to salvage the psychometric tradition for research it cannot possibly accomplish, namely the understanding of persons in an evolutionary and historical context. Furthermore he does not addr...
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Early twentieth century psychology was marked by a variety of perspectives that took seriously the centrality of personhood as the key marker of psychological properties and attributes. William Stern's critical personalism was one such position and its loss, along with related positions, to the scientism that has marked the last hundred years of ps...
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This issue takes up the notion of dialogue and self in multiple ways, particularly with reference to the contemporary conception of the dialogical self. In their diffusion and strength, the conceptual work in these papers, which represent a second generation of self scholarship, demonstrates that the interplay of “self” and “dialogue” is proving to...
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The dialogical self, defined as a dynamic multiplicity of I-positions, has been taken up in multiple ways in psychology generally and cultural psychology specifically. As a self unfolding dynamically with others in a world, the dialogical self is at its foundation ethical. Self scholars have recognized the ethical nature of the dialogical self, but...
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This paper is about Johannes Linschoten, and the intriguing question why, in 1964 – in the eyes of some beholders – he left phenomenological psychology and exchanged it for a positivistic version of psychology. In this paper, we argue that it is not an ‚either-or‛ choice, as some would suggest, and that Linschoten did not in fact abandon phenomenol...
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Habitus has become a conceptual anchor in work on the social study of the body in a range of disciplines, but also more generally in psychology proper. Pierre Bourdieu’s notion of habitus is one of a “structuring structure” or “system of dispositions” that generates practices by ensuring the presence of the past in experience. The papers in this se...
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This article discusses three distinct patterns that characterise the educational experiences of prominent women psychologists who obtained their PhDs in Canada prior to the 1950s. First, these women obtained their PhDs in psychology in Central Canadian universities versus universities in Western or Eastern Canada. Second, these women made a later e...
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Stam, H. J., & Burns, D. (2009). Holism in psychology: Can the whole still be greater than the sum of its parts? [Review of the book Striving for the whole: Creating theoretical syntheses, by R. Diriwächter & J. Valsiner, Eds.]. PsycCRITIQUES, 54(2). https://doi.org/10.1037/a0014786 Abstract Reviews the book, Striving for the whole: Creating theor...
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Reviews the book, Feeling pain and being in pain, 2nd edition by Nikola Grahek (see record 2007-00636-000). This remarkable little book was originally published in Germany in 2001 and saved from obscurity by Daniel Dennett, who ensured its republication after the author's untimely death. It claims to provide no new theory and no new data on pain bu...
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Historically and continuing into the present, the field of hypnosis has been divided into proponents of ‘state’ or ‘special-state’ and ‘non-state’ or ‘sociocognitive’ accounts of hypnosis. Although many investigators now dispute this distinction, it can still be used as a rough guide to views of the phenomenon. The sociocognitive view, at least in...
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Before and after World War II, a loose movement within Dutch psychology solidified as a nascent phenomenological psychology. Dutch phenomenological psychologists attempted to generate an understanding of psychology that was based on Husserlian interpretations of phenomenological philosophy. This movement came to a halt in the 1960s, even though it...
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Reviews the book, Bipolar expeditions: Mania and depression in American culture by Emily Martin (see record 2007-12277-000 ). This volume is in many ways Martin's most personal yet, as she makes clear in the opening lines of the book--she herself is someone who lives "under the description of manic depression" (p. xix). She begins these expeditions...
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Among psychologists, the Utrecht School was famous (at least outside The Netherlands) for its phenomenological psychology (e.g. (Giorgi, 1990). Buytendijk, Linschoten, Van Lennep, Kouwer, Langeveld, and others were considered as the members of a school with a strongly resembling approach to psychological problems. To put it bluntly these were probl...
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Taking Rom Harré's social constructionism as a focus we point to and discuss the issue of the a priori psychological subject in social constructionist theory. While Harré indicates that interacting, intending beings are necessary for conversation to occur, he assumes that the primary human reality is conversation and that psychological life emerges...
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'Globalization' provides an ambiguous cliché for psychology as the North American and European version of the discipline is being exported widely. After providing a brief history of globalization and the failure of its intended effects I discuss three episodes of psychology's place in a globalized marketplace of ideas; the pre-1900 development of p...
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The threat of Pythagoreanism hovers over the appeal to quantification, despite Yanchar's and Westerman's calls for a liberal, interpretive view of numbers. I discuss their articles by agreeing that the distinction between qualitative and quantitative methods is of limited utility, by noting various versions of interpretation in their articles, and...
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[Correction Notice: An erratum for this article was reported in Vol 52(3) of PsycCRITIQUES (see record 2007-00246-001). The publisher of the book was listed as Harvard University Press. It should have been Yale University Press.] Reviews the book, An Argument for Mind by Jerome Kagan (see record 2006-04643-000). Kagan has lived through the peri...
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The articles in this special issue cover a range of critical issues and approaches in social psychology. Two of their common features are: (a) their restatement—in various forms—of the unresolved epistemological problems that continue to inform critical discussions of social psychology; and (b) the rarely debated question of just what makes social...
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Reminding us of the crucial tasks that require our urgent ministrations, Hepworth rightly notes that critique has its limits. I agree and note that our fates as critics are bound to a professionalism we may not be able to escape.
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The application of statistical testing in psychological research over the period of 1940-1960 is examined in order to address psychologists' reconciliation of the extant controversy between the Fisher and Neyman-Pearson approaches. Textbooks of psychological statistics and the psychological journal literature are reviewed to examine the presence of...
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The nineteenth century was the site of radical changes in understanding mental illness. The professionalization of psychiatry consisted primarily of the discipline's aspiration to the status of an expert medical subspecialty. While all forms of insanity were eventually reframed in medical terms, melancholia--for moral and nosological reasons--assum...
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This issue takes the binary of ‘culture’ and ‘self’ to be a problem of theorizing an entrenched dualism by simultaneously breaking down the dichotomy and re-theorizing its inherently contested members. In this introduction we describe briefly the problems confronting this theoretical project, the manner in which alternative frames of analysis can b...
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Codes of ethics have begun to refer to preferences that interventions be “empirically supported.” The movement toward Empirically Supported Treatments (ESTs) is based on a medical model of intervention using randomized controlled trials as the prime method, one originally developed to test the efficacy of educational reforms and, later in the twent...
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Two arguments with attempts to unify psychology are adumbrated in this commentary. First, the unification of psychology is largely a disciplinary maneuver and not primarily an epistemological act. Second, the discipline of psychology has been unified for some time around a series of methodological and functional categories that have served to suppo...
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Prior to and immediately following WW II a loose movement within Dutch psychology, led by Frederick Buytendijk, eventually solidified as a nascent phenomenological psychology. Supported by German, Belgian and French colleagues, Dutch phenomenological psychologists and criminologists attempted to generate an understanding of psychology that was base...
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We conceptualize the experience of cancer as requiring 'biographical work' and examine the nature of this work in the context of peer support groups. Interviews with participants and leaders of support groups were used to theorize the importance of support to cancer patients with varying stages and length of disease. Patient interviews led us to de...
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This book (D. K. Simonton [2002]; see record 2002-17019-000) organizes a series of studies into a single volume on eminence in psychology. The reviewer contends that this is not a typical work on the history of psychology but prides itself as a work based largely on "historiometric methods" (with some results of psychometric studies included). Hist...
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THE HISTORY OF PSYCHOLOGY as a specialty within the discipline has undergone major changes over recent years, taking on broad intellectual considerations originally external to psychology and gradually infusing the very way in which some historians of psychology have come to write and speak of their subject. Such diverse influences include the reth...
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This volume breaks open traditional disciplinary confines and approaches the full complexity of communicative interaction from an impressive range of exciting state-of-the-art perspectives in social psychology, conversation analysis, hermeneutics, constructivist psychology, communication theory, computational neuroscience, sociology of communicatio...
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The articles in this issue represent a broad range of positions that nonetheless coalesce into a set of clearly defined but contested claims concerning the ritual of debate, the realism-social constructionism divide, and the relational nature of human sociality. I foreground these issues by contextualizing the question of academic debate and histor...
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Recently1 we demonstrated a delay in effect of sublingual testosterone on both physiological and subjective sexual arousal in women. The delay for these effects was approximately 4 hours. We suggested that under the condition of testosterone administration, there were increases in physiological sexual responding during successive measures, and that...

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