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This project is funded by the Future Learning Initiative at ETH Zurich ( www.fli.ethz.ch). We thank the Learning Sciences and Higher Education research group members and Mike Klymkowsky for critically reading an early draft of the article. Further, we thank Professors Jacob Corn, Wolf-Dietrich Hardt, Karsten Weis, and Alex Widmer for supporting the study announcement to the classes, Professor Julia Vorholt-Zambelli and Carmen Fischer-Romero for supporting the recruitment of biology doctoral students, the biology and non-biology graduate students for taking the MRCI assessment and for correcting the MRCI translation, respectively, and the undergraduate students at ETH Zurich for participating in this study. All studies were approved by the Ethics Commission of ETH Zurich, Switzerland (2021-N-12 and 2021-N-142).

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