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I proposed that cultural differences in people’s dialectical thinking propensity would influence their processing of conflicting information about drug effects contained in the ads. And I proposed that differential information processing would cause differences in people’s expectancies about the drugs’ effects. The hypotheses were not supported in the results. 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