Appendix 1.

Verbatim instructions used in the positive memory reflection task

Phase	Instructions
Opening	Welcome to the study. This recording that you are listening to has been designed to guide you through this session. The study that you’re about to participate in is about feelings, memory, and language. It focuses on the interaction between emotions and the semantics of sentences. We are especially interested in how language and feelings interact in different people. Throughout the course of this study, we will be asking you questions that have to do with feelings and providing you with instructions regarding how to think about experiences from your past.
	It is important that you do your best to follow the instructions you receive throughout this study to the best of your ability. Although you may be asked to think about feelings and memories in ways that you are not accustomed to, the validity of our research depends on your cooperation in following the exact instructions you receive as best as you can.
	If you have any questions at this point, please signal the experimenter. If not, sit back and listen to the following instructions. Press the space bar to continue.
Recall	We will now ask you to think about a time from your past in which you felt happy. Although people experience a variety of positive and negative events in their lives, there are times when they experience extreme happiness. Times in which they are overwhelmed with joy and positivity. Take a few moments right now to think about times from your past that makes you feel happy when you think about them now. As you do this, try to identify a specific experience that makes you feel overwhelmed with happiness when you think about it now. Although it may be difficult, most people can usually remember at least one incident. Take your time as you try to do this. Press the space bar when you are ready to continue. Now close your eyes. Go back to the time and place of the experience you just recalled and see the scene in your mind’s eye. Take a few moments to do this. When you’re ready to continue press the space bar.
Reflection1 (90s)	As you continue to think about this experience, try to understand your feelings. Why did you have those feelings? What were the underlying causes and reasons? Take a few moments to do this. We will continue in 90 seconds.
Reflection2 (90s)	Please continue to think about why you experienced the feelings you did during the situation you recalled. What were the underlying causes and reasons? Take a few moments to continue doing this. We will continue with the final phase of the study in 90 seconds.