Kerzel, Dirk http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2466-5221
Renaud, Olivier
Funding for this research was provided by:
Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung (100019_182146)
University of Geneva
Article History
Received: 20 December 2021
Accepted: 29 August 2022
First Online: 12 September 2022
Declarations
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: Neither of the experiments reported in this article was formally preregistered. The data are available at ExternalRef removed and requests for the program code can be sent via email to DK.
: DK was supported by grant No. 100019_182146 from the Swiss National Science Foundation. The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest. The study was approved by the ethics committee of the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences and was carried out in accordance with the Code of Ethics of the World Medical Association (Declaration of Helsinki). Informed written consent was given before the experiment started.
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