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This holds for manipulations of reading aloud but not other manipulations. Study time per item (e.g., 500 vs. 2000\u00a0ms), can even invert the effect, with a larger strength effect between pure-strength lists than within mixed lists. This inversion remained when the longer study time comprised three massed repetitions. An attentional subsetting theory account explained the inverted list-strength effect by assuming weak items had primarily shallow features encoded, and participants disregarded those on pure-strong lists, when the better, deeper features were available. Here we asked whether spaced repetition is an exception, rendering disregarding ineffective, or like massed repetition, produces an inverted list-strength effect if presentation time is short. In three experiments, spaced repetition produced a null or upright list-strength effect. Under equated conditions, massed repetition and long duration produced inverted or null effects. Thus, despite being within an experimental regime that has robustly produced inverted list-strength effects, spaced repetition appears resilient. 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