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Accepted: 27 October 2024

First Online: 8 January 2025

Declarations

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: The authors of this paper, G. Notaro and U. Hasson are inventors on a patent (US 18040913) that describes the presented method and are co-founders of a company that holds the patent. To mitigate COI, the study was pre-registered after analysis of the pilot data, and before collection of the data reported in the main study. The authors were not involved in the data collection process. Participant recruitment and conduction of the experiment was conducted by an independent paid experimenter who was blind to the hypotheses and had no financial or other connections to the company owning the patent. All results can be directly reproduced from the raw data collected by the Experimenter using the analyses code and data made publicly available online.

: The authors have shares in the company owning a patent to the method as described in the COI statement.

: The study was conducted in accordance with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and approved by the Ethical Committee of University of Trento.

: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.

: Not Applicable.