Table A1.
The target events used in the experiment.
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| HYPOTHETICAL EVENT | VALENCE M (SD) | CONTROLLABILITY M (SD) | EMOTIONAL AROUSAL M (SD) | EXPERIENCE M (SD) | FEEDBACK/BASE RATE |
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| Look after a child for two hours and the child has fun doing so | 79.54 (15.60) | 79.12 (14.41) | 66.40 (19.57) | 64.52 (28.71) | 67 |
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| Take a hot bath or shower on a cold day | 85.74 (13.32) | 92.27 (10.37) | 50.77 (13.61) | 81.83 (17.15) | 68 |
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| Win a sports bet | 73.51 (18.95) | 21.68 (19.26) | 67.34 (18.81) | 8.26 (18.21) | 40 |
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| Meet an old friend on the street by chance | 79.20 (13.46) | 18.51 (20.05) | 68.40 (18.19) | 64.37 (21.05) | 69 |
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| Successful speech delivery | 79.79 (18.06) | 82.06 (13.54) | 69.43 (19.00) | 53.72 (25.38) | 47 |
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| Friend returns previously borrowed money | 72.39 (13.98) | 57.93 (18.88) | 43.76 (16.37) | 65.46 (16.25) | 60 |
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| Win a karaoke contest | 75.13 (15.49) | 60.52 (19.59) | 63.04 (18.81) | 12.66 (21.35) | 44 |
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| Hear a funny joke | 77.66 (14.12) | 42.07 (21.24) | 57.17 (17.50) | 76.88 (17.16) | 72 |
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| New neighbor comes to introduce themselves | 72.13 (14.73) | 27.18 (20.93) | 52.83 (20.40) | 39.05 (25.52) | 62 |
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| Listen to your favorite song on the radio | 77.43 (13.99) | 36.80 (27.23) | 57.73 (20.34) | 74.57 (19.49) | 68 |
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| Being hugged by a friend | 87.73 (10.91) | 66.11 (18.73) | 79.00 (11.70) | 90.89 (13.78) | 71 |
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| Relatives greet you at a family gathering | 82.18 (14.09) | 59.87 (19.49) | 72.63 (19.17) | 83.63 (17.58) | 69 |
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| Lose 50 CHF on the street | 24.06 (23.21) | 58.26 (30.06) | 63.63 (25.51) | 22.24 (23.27) | 50 |
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| Computer crashes while writing a document | 14.73 (12.52) | 31.23 (22.51) | 68.15 (19.09) | 54.78 (22.24) | 56 |
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| Marriage ends in a bitter divorce | 6.06 (12.66) | 62.51 (17.92) | 96.57 (16.25) | 5.89 (18.17) | 45 |
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| Find rotten food in the fridge | 25.55 (14.62) | 87.56 (13.75) | 36.27 (20.98) | 55.29 (16.45) | 62 |
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| Being heartbroken at the end of a relationship | 6.62 (9.82) | 34.24 (23.83) | 97.48 (19.95) | 51.50 (26.22) | 68 |
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| Shop closes just when you arrive | 30.83 (13.48) | 79.34 (21.05) | 45.93 (19.01) | 51.67 (22.51) | 60 |
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| Drink cold coffee or tea | 40.28 (15.47) | 84.83 (16.84) | 26.32 (18.94) | 62.66 (24.52) | 60 |
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| The neighbor listens to very loud music | 33.27 (13.75) | 30.20 (20.98) | 50.00 (19.72) | 47.10 (24.45) | 62 |
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| Use an unhygienic public toilet | 40.01 (14.11) | 71.76 (22.86) | 25.48 (18.46) | 80.16 (18.41) | 70 |
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| Get a wound that needs stitches | 17.35 (14.40) | 57.88 (21.50) | 62.11 (21.88) | 32.72 (29.74) | 64 |
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| Have a hardly bearable toothache | 9.57 (11.35) | 45.12 (23.26) | 56.74 (19.93) | 33.18 (25.16) | 71 |
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| Being mistaken for another person on the street | 46.07 (9.73) | 13.06 (18.78) | 37.11 (17.80) | 48.49 (24.91) | 53 |
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Note: The twelve positive and twelve negative events had been chosen to be balanced on their values (0–100) of perceived valence (very negative/very positive), controllability (very uncontrollable/very controllable), emotional arousal (not arousing at all/very arousing), personal experience (no experience at all/a lot of experience) and base rate (not frequent at all/very frequent). The values represent mean ratings based on a sample of 89 respondents. Standard deviations are presented in parentheses. The full set can be found in (Dricu et al., 2018).