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Authors
Chu, Liqi
Yang, Yilin
Han, Yuxin
Yan, Di
Pi, Xiaofang
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Funding
Funding for this research was provided by:
The Chinese Ministry of Education (23YJC790014, 23YJC790014, 23YJC790014, 23YJC790014, 23YJC790014)
National Natural Science Foundation of China (71573212)
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Article History
Received: 12 January 2025
Accepted: 23 June 2025
First Online: 17 July 2025
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: The research reported in this article was conducted following the ethical guidelines of Henan University of Economics and Law. Ethical approval was obtained from the Institutional Review Board (IRB) of Henan University of Economics and Law on August 3rd, 2020. There was no specific approval number attached to the approval. All procedures performed in the study were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: All participants provided oral informed consent prior to participation. Written consent waswaived due to the following reasons: (1) Requiring written signatures could compromiseparticipants’ anonymity, as the study recruited serving public officials and businessprofessionals, and signed documents might inadvertently reveal their identities; (2) Theresearch involved low-risk simulated innovation tasks with no collection of sensitive personaldata. Participants’ responses were anonymized, and no identifiable information was linked totheir task outputs. The consent process was conducted via face-to-face dialog betweenexperimenters and participants on August 3rd, 2020.
