"In the experiment, participants were confronted with a canceling problem. Specifically, they were asked to imagine that they are responsible for organizing a conference on ophthalmology. Due to a software error, two speakers have been mistakenly assigned to the last available speaking slot, and it is impossible to let both of them present. The task requires the participants to make a difficult decision: one of the two speakers must be removed from the list of presenters. Participants were informed that they had conducted online searches for both professional and personal information about the speakers and had a brief phone conversation with each to confirm their interest in presenting at the conference. They were also told that each speaker had made either a politically charged or a neutral statement, conveyed either during the private phone conversation or through a blog or social media post."