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We rely on the original datasets reported in Dejonckheere, Mestdagh, et al.1, of which two are publicly available from the Open Science Framework (http://osf.io/zm6uw). Restrictions apply to the availability of the other datasets, as they were used under license for that particular study, and so are not publicly available. The data for Dejonckheere et al.25 can be found on the Open Science Framework (https://osf.io/yte2w/).
Code availability
All analyses reported in this reply were conducted in MATLAB (R2017a)24. The code for reproducing our results is provided in the Supplementary MATLAB Code, and is available from the Open Science Framework (http://osf.io/zm6uw).
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Dejonckheere, E., Mestdagh, M., Kuppens, P. et al. Reply to: Context matters for affective chronometry. Nat Hum Behav 4, 690–693 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-020-0861-6
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