Emotional face-word stroop paradigmA Dutch version of the emotional face-word Stroop task was used to assess intervention-induced differences in the ‘resolution of emotional conflicts’ in the face of emotional distracters (Fig. 2b). During this task, participants were presented with pictures of male faces expressing fear or happiness. On top of the faces, the Dutch words for happy (i.e. “blij”) and fearful (i.e. “bang”) were presented in prominent red letters. The emotions described by the words were either congruent with the emotion of the face or incongruent, and participants had to indicate the emotion of the face by ignoring the emotion word. A total of 148 stimuli of happy or fearful faces were presented. The order of stimulus presentation was pseudo-randomized and the total duration of the task added up to 15 min.