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Article History

Received: 15 October 2024

Accepted: 6 February 2026

First Online: 10 April 2026

Declarations

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: The laboratory-based avatar-compatibility tasks were approved by the local ethics committee under 2020-002_FB7_RWTH. As no ethical issues such as the inclusion of vulnerable groups, stress, physical risk or deception or similar were anticipated, no further ethics approval was required for this study in accordance with the local legislation and institutional requirements.

: Every subject in each experiment gave informed consent to participate.

: All participants gave informed consent for their anonymized data to be used in publication.

: None of the authors have competing interests.

: Data and materials for the study are available via the following link: The experiment was not preregistered.

: The author declares that this study was conducted in the absence of any financial relationships that could be viewed as conflicts of interests.