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. 2021 May 13;11:10261. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-89498-5

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Experimental setup. (A) The bipartite network used as the initial configuration. Pre-recorded ideas of the alters were shown to the egos of both study conditions. Each ego was connected to 2 alters. (B) The study protocol for each of the 5 rounds. In turn-1, the egos generated ideas independently. Turn-2 involved an additional idea-generation task on the same object. In this turn, the control egos were shown only the ideas of their alters for inspiration, while both the ideas and the demographic information of the alters were shown to the treatment egos. The egos could add inspired ideas to their lists. Finally, the egos rated the ideas of all the alters in the trial, and optionally updated the 2 followee-alters at the end of each round. In the illustration, the ego dissolved the red dashed link to form the green link, while the grey link persisted.