Experimental paradigm.

(a) The experiment was composed of 9 blocks separated by a quote exposure period occurring after the 6th block (Choice 1-B): 4 blocks of rating (Rating 1-A, Rating 2-A, Rating 1-B, Rating 2-B), 4 blocks of choice (Choice 1-A, Choice 2-A, Choice 1-B, Choice 2-B), and a memory block for every groups of subject (Control—Coherence—Incoherence). Items were divided in two subsets for Part A and Part B respectively. Part A was used as a control test of CIPC, and included both the RCR condition of interest, and the RRC control condition. Subjects were then engaged in Part B that was the genuine test of interest in which we predicted to modulate CIPC by quote exposure. Part B started with a rating block (Rating 1-B), followed by the Choice 1-B block. A confederate then entered in the experimental room requesting the examiner to come with him to solve an urgent problem. The examiner accepted to accompany the confederate but asked her to pause the ongoing experiment. Actually, the confederate set up a desktop background with one of the 3 quote categories (control-coherence-incoherence) that would then be presented on the screen for 3 minutes. This design allowed a clear double blind experiment. Images were free of use for commercial usage. (b) Three examples of desktop backgrounds used including the quotes with their English translation. All images displayed in this figure are free of use for commercial usage (Rio de Janeiro Corcovado mountain by Artyominc https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fichier:Christ_on_Corcovado_mountain.JPG (CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en); Gizah pyramids by Ricardo Liberato https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:All_Gizah_Pyramids.jpg (CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en); Santiago Chile by Patrick Coe https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Santiago_Chile.jpg (CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en); Greek landscape https://pixabay.com/fr/grèce-mer-vue-sur-la-mer-sud-905559/ is in the public domain with no attribution required (CC0 https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en); Belgium urban landscape https://pxhere.com/fr/photo/419689 (CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/) China Urban landscape https://pixabay.com/fr/shanghai-bund-la-chine-ville-1484452/ is in the public domain (CC0 https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en); Vicinities NongFa lake in Laos by Aleksey Gnilenkov https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vicinities_NongFa_lake_in_Laos_(5514443712).jpg (CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en); Temple of Saint Sava by Borisa Zivkovic is in the public domain (CC0 https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en); Gouden Buddha by Mwibawa https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WLANL_-_mwibawa_-_Gouden_Buddha_(1).jpg (CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en); Albert Einstein by Emilio Segrès https://www.flickr.com/photos/sfjalar/2931059489 CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/); Lysippos, Socrates Statue at the Louvre https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Socrates_statue_at_the_Louvre,_8_April_2013.jpg (CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en).