Figure 2.

Affective flexibility paradigm. Participants perform either an affectively neutral task (i.e., judging whether the presented face is male or female; response with left hand) or a task focusing on the affective content of the stimulus images (i.e., judging whether the face shows a positive or negative emotion; response with right hand). The to-be-performed task depends on the location of the stimulus (above vs. below the fixation cross, respectively). After a switch, participants continue to perform the new task (repetition trials) until the next switch trial occurs (highlighted in grey).