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The study was co-authored by Julie Paquette MacEvoy, a former Duke Ph.D. student who is now an assistant professor at Boston College's Lynch School of Education, and Steven Asher, a professor in Duke's Department of Psychology and Neuroscience. MacEvoy and Asher surveyed 267 fourth- and fifth-grade children of diverse ethnicities: 49.3 percent Caucasian, 26.6 percent Latino, 21.5 percent African-American, and 2.6 percent "other“.