Fig 1. One trial of the experiment: a segment of the text was presented, followed by a rating screen on which the suspense experienced while reading the text segment was selected on a 10-point scale using two buttons (for moving the selected point on the rating scale to the left or right).

Timing was self-paced, i.e., participants pressed a button in order to proceed to the next text segment / rating screen. A total of 65 text segments was presented during the experiment.