Our results thus imply that a reassessment of the evidence for sequential dependence in the literature may be advisable, taking into account its potential association with the specific nature of the task.
Moreover, sequential effects are known to be influenced by variable factors, including the nature of the stimulus, the passage of time, the number of intervening stimuli, and individual characteristics \cite{Ceylan2023,Fritsche2017,Fritsche2020,Glasauer2022,Samaha2019}. For example, a larger serial dependence effect was observed in previous highly confident trials compared to less confident trials for orientation estimation \cite{Samaha2019}, and observers strongly believing in the correlation of successive stimuli exhibit strong serial dependence, whereas those with an opposite belief in randomness show less bias in interval reproduction \cite{Glasauer2022}