Many heads are more utilitarian than one

Author Note. This research was funded by the NOMIS Foundation (OD). BB was supported by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (819040 acronym: rid-O). BB was also supported by the Humboldt Foundation. Open practices statement: The experiment and analyses were preregistered at the Open Science Framework (https://osf.io/vxcp8). The data generated and analyzed during the study, in addition to the script and the description of the analysis, are publicly available at DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/JMKX5

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