Table 1.

Sample characteristics, memory characteristics (VAS), and affect (VAS) per condition (Study 1).

	Concrete/imagery condition n = 36		Abstract/verbal condition n = 34
	Mean	SD	Mean	SD
Gender (freq female)	32		31
Age	21.50	0.85	21.56	0.66
BDI-II	6.36	5.08	5.71	7.09
RPA-Dampening	10.81	2.65	11.50	3.39
Positivity of the event	8.52	1.33	8.56	1.06
Emotional (positive) intensity – past	8.41	1.29	8.44	1.43
Emotional (positive) intensity – retrieval	6.96	1.61	7.02	1.82
Positive affect
At baseline	6.18	2.03	6.41	2.16
After the induction	7.39	1.64	6.76	2.33
End of experiment	6.75	1.89	6.29	2.37

BDI-II, Beck Depression Inventory-II; RPA-Dampening, the Dampening subscale of the Responses to Positive Affect questionnaire.