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One study found that ethnicities of the protagonist in children's fiction correlate with the difference in the type of emotions displayed by those characters (Grady et al.,2019)

The study of Grady et al. (2019) found that ethnicities of protagonists in children's fiction are correlated with differences in types of emotions displayed by those characters. 

APA  7th edition

APA  7th edition

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APA  7th edition

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in the 7th edition website titles should be italicized and "retrieved from" is not longer needed.