Table 2.

Descriptions of the included cognitive tasks.

Test	Description
TASIT	The test is comprised of 15 small video clips of professional actors performing everyday interactions representing conversational exchanges that typically occur between a couple, friends, or colleagues. The clips last between 15 and 50 s. The task is to figure out if the actors are being sincere or sarcastic based on the tone of voice, facial expressions, gestures and body postures. There are three conditions; Sincere (five clips), simple sarcasm (five clips), and paradoxical sarcasm (five clips). In the sincere condition, there is congruence between what the actor is literally saying and what is meant, i.e. the verbal message and the context are consistent. Contrary, in the sarcastic conditions, there is an incongruence between the spoken words and the paralinguistic and facial cues. The simple sarcasm can only be recognised by interpreting these cues correctly and identifying the contradictions. In the paradoxical sarcasm conditions, the dialogue only makes sense if the sarcasm is recognised, i.e. a literal interpretation of the interaction is meaningless. After viewing a clip, the participant is asked four questions pertaining to the intentions of the actors (what they were doing, saying, thinking, and feeling) with a max score of 4 points per clip resulting in a total score of max 20 for each of the three conditions.
DART	Participants are asked to read aloud a list of 50 words with irregular spelling
WAIS-III Vocabulary Block design	Participants are asked to explain the meaning of/define a list of words Participants are asked use red-and-white blocks to construct specific patterns according to a picture