Studies 1 and 2 were conducted by Alex Shaw in Kristina Olson's lab from July 2010 through May 2011. They wrote up those two studies in a manuscript and submitted an early copy to Michael Norton who pointed out that his team (including Gino, Montinari, and Piovesan) had run a closely related study (Study 3 in the published paper) that they had also written up for publication.  Norton and Olson discussed the possibility that if both papers were rejected that we might combine the papers and submit them as one merged manuscript. In the next few months both teams submitted their own papers separately to a journal and their papers were both rejected. At that time, the two papers were combined into one paper.  Data for Studies 1 and 2 of the published manuscript were collected before the two projects merged and the data for these has been posted to OSF (https://osf.io/9kjtx/). Gino never had access to those data. The data analyses for both papers were conducted before the papers were merged and neither team had access to the others’ data files. 
 
The study that Norton was referring to (ultimately Study 3 of the final paper) was a project involving the other co-authors. For that study, Dr. Gino participated in the conceptualization and design phases, contributing insightful comments and edits to the manuscript. However, her involvement did not extend to data collection or data analyses for this article. The data collection took place in the period March-May 2011, with Dr Montinari overseeing the experiment involving children. Their decisions were documented on paper, and subsequently, the raw data was meticulously entered into an Excel file. Dr. Montinari took charge of conducting the data analyses for the final article.

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