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Contributed equally to this work with: Julianne Holt-Lunstad, Timothy B. Smith
* E-mail: julianne_holt-lunstad@byu.edu
Affiliation Department of Psychology, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, United States of America
Affiliation Department of Counseling Psychology, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, United States of America
Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America