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assistance with data collection. We thank Michael F. Timberlake and Sonia Salari for their help-
ful comments on the original draft. We also thank both anonymous reviewers and the editor for their
insightful comments that help improve the manuscript.

Ethics Approval

The Institutional Review Board at the University of Utah approved the project in May 2014 (IRB:
00067618).

Author Contributions

Yiqing Yang and Ming Wen jointly designed the survey. Yiqing Yang played a leading role in the
fieldwork of data collection and cleaned the data. In this article, Yiqing Yang proposed the specific
research questions, conducted the analyses, drafted the first version, and revised the manuscript. Ming
Wen participated in the writing and further revision of the manuscript.
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