Figure 1.

The Procedure of the Experiment. An English translation of the German multidimensional mood questionnaire (MDBF) (98) was presented to the participants before and after the main tasks to evaluate whether sonnets reading induced longer-lasting changes in participants’ mood state. The data acquisition for each sonnet was split in two parts: first initial reading of the sonnet with eye tracking and the following paper-pencil tasks. After answering the questionnaire for the first sonnet, participants continued with reading the second sonnet in front of the eye tracker and so on. The order of the three sonnets was counterbalanced across participants. In order to make the reading of the first sonnet comparable to the reading of the latter two, participants became acquainted with a questionnaire example before the initial reading of the first sonnet.