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citations to date Miguel Segundo-Ortin  & Manuel Heras-Escribano 
15 Received 27 Feb 2023, Accepted 15 Jun 2023, Published online: 25 Jun 2023

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Acknowledgements

MSO and MHE are grateful to Annemarie Kalis, Josephine Pascoe, Víctor Fernández Castro, and Neftalí Villanueva
for their useful comments and suggestions. MSO. was supported by a Ramón y Cajal Fellowship from Ministerio
de Ciencia e Innovación, Gobierno de España (Award # RYC2021-031242-I), and by the Nederlandse Organisatie
voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek, VIDI Research Project “Shaping our action space: A situated perspective on self-
control” (VI.VIDI.195.116). MHE was supported by a Juan de la Cierva-Incorporación Fellowship from Ministerio de
Ciencia e Innovación, Gobierno de España, and the project “De la experiencia a los conceptos: Una reformulación
del problema de Molyneux a través de la sustitución sensorial ecológica (ECOCONCEPT)” – Ayudas Fundación
BBVA a Proyectos de Investigación Cientí#ca 2021.

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