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Basic symbols to allow a person to express an opinion,egby putting a thumbs down symbol next to that one of today’s activities, to show they didn’t enjoy it A significant effect of MIP is found for the pleasure change scores after anxious mood induction F(2,221) = 7.323, p = 0.001. Only the Long film fragment and the IAPS slide show are significantly different t = -3.83, p< 0.001; more displeasure is induced by the Long film fragment and this difference is maintained over time (see Figure 5). The slope coefficients are not significantly different among the three MIPs. Also a significant effect of MIP is found for the arousal change scores F(2,221) = 3.16, p = 0.044. Again only the Long film fragment and the IAPS slide show are significantly different t = -2.46, p = 0.015; more arousal is induced by the Long film fragment compared to the IAPS slide show. The regression coefficients are significantly different across the three MIPs F(2,221) = 4.40, p = 0.001. The slope of the curve fitting for the IAPS slide show is significantly less negative compared to that corresponding to the Short film fragment b = 0.582, t = 2.42, p = 0.016 and the Long film fragment b = 0.647, t = 2.69, p = 0.008; the intercept of the IAPS slide show is significantly lower compared to both the intercept of the Short film fragment b = -0.944, t = -2.49, p = 0.013 and the Long film fragment b = -1.35, t = -3.57, p< 0.001.This means that individuals with ruminating thoughts, based on a skewed interpretation of negative events (influenced heavily by downcast emotions), lead to depression and an inability to reason clearly, causing a decline in executive operation (Philippot & Agrigoroaei, 2016). The normality assumption for parametric statistical analysis was violated; the data was highly skewed. Therefore we analyzed our data with the non-parametric Friedman test. These tests were carried out to investigate a main effect of time (i.e., at the six specific mood measurement moments) on both the pleasure and arousal scores for each MIP. Similar Friedman tests were carried out to investigate a main effect of time on the physiological change values for each MIP. The significance level was set at α = 0.05 for all Friedman tests. With the Wilcoxon post hoc test we compared the baseline scores with the five other moments for each MIP; Bonferroni correction was applied resulting in a significance level of 0.05/5 = 0.010. Thirdly, we decided to use kaleidoscope visuals during the waiting periods, as we considered them the best balance between not inducing mood by a task and inducing boredom by waiting without task. Pilot testing revealed that, without any task to be performed in the waiting period, participants were annoyed and bored by the four times 2 min of idleness. Kaleidoscope visuals were chosen as a neutral stimulus to keep the participants visually occupied, assuming these visuals would not influence the participants’ affective state. It might be the case, though, that the visuals reduced the arousal experienced by the participants. In future work the neutral stimulus or task should be more explicitly pretested on its affective response to minimize its affective influence.