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Article History

Received: 13 August 2021

Accepted: 9 June 2022

First Online: 9 July 2022

Competing interests

: The authors declare no competing interests.

: This study was approved by the University of Cincinnati’s Institutional Review Board (IRB No. 2014-0624). All study procedures were performed in accordance with the relevant guidelines and regulations outlined by the Belmont Report.

: Participants provided written informed consent to take part in the study, they also signed written informed consent to be audio recorded during the simulated disclosure task but could still participate in the study if they declined to be audio recorded. Participants were told both verbally and in the written consent form that they could end their participation at any time without penalty. At the end of the experiment, all participants were verbally debriefed on the purpose of the study and were provided with a written sheet containing information for university counselling services and external hotlines. That information was also provided in the participant’s copy of the consent form.